Via Screenrant.com:
It’s been nearly two years since Disney acquired Lucasfilm and set in motion an entire new chapter for the Star Wars universe – and streamlined the official canon storyline. In the months following, speculation ran rampant: Who would direct Episode 7? Which young actors would be considered for starring roles? Would original cast members Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher return?
While we have answers to many of those questions – plenty more remain. J.J. Abrams is in the director’s chair, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, as well as Oscar Isaac have been tapped for lead roles, and Hamill, Ford, and Fisher are set to reprise their roles as Luke, Han, and Leia – but we still know very little about the larger Episode 7 plot (not to mention how it will compare to the original film trilogy).
Recent set photos have suggested that Abrams is taking a more practical approach to filmmaking, even teasing a return to some familiar locales, but in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Oscar Isaac confirms that the production team is hard at work trying to avoid mistakes from the prequels – channeling Episodes 4-6 to deliver a film that is both “fiery” but still a bit “messy”:
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