Warwick Davis Talks The Force Awakens. First Hint for the Poster?
The 44-year-old actor, who played the Ewok Wicket in Return of the Jedi was the last official cast announcement for The Force Awakens. In a recent interview the actor briefly talked about the upcoming movie, showing his great excitement for the project.
From IrishExaminer (via MagnarTheGreat):
Warwick said: “What I’m most excited by is chance to see members of the old cast in the poster.”
“I’ve been a fan of ‘Star Wars’ ever since the first film [‘Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope’] came out in 1977. This just feels like an amazing moment.”
Warwick also played several parts in ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’, including Greedo the Elder.
Was that a hint for the upcoming poster? As we told you before a theater owner told us that The Force Awakens poster is probably expected in January.
Since the teaser trailer didn’t show anyone from the original cast, many people assumed that the first poster might be something similar. Of course Warwick might be just guessing but a first poster with the original cast would be something really special.
And by the way, while we don’t know what role Mr. Davis will be playing in TFA, we know he won’t be an Ewok. 😉
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I can’t imagine the first poster will reveal much of the original cast. In my opinion the original cast is a big reveal that we may get bits a pieces of but nothing huge until we are sitting in the theater seeing them on screen. Part of the magic for this movie to me is having the original cast back. If they had recast the characters or moved the timeline past their time it wouldn’t mean as much so I think original cast stuff will be scarce until the movie is here.
in some of the EU comics set after the ROTJ, you can see some ewoks in the battles, handing high tech crossbows and slingshots who throw with thermal detonators!
would be so cool to see this in a movie IMO
I think it would be cool if Wicket was in Episode 7 as part of a rebel spy team, the whole star wars universe now seems to have a cold war feel to it and having him as a personal agent to Leia might be interesting.
Because if you think about it the Empire were going to trash his planet had they beaten the rebels and a disgruntled Ewok might sign up to the rebellion and he would handle high tech weapons as part of his job.
Just show us already! Would love to see Skywalker with something dark around him. I’ll be happy with anything really.
“Warwick also played several parts in ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’, including Greedo the Elder.”
Surely they mean Greedo the YOUNGER? I mean, Greedo is just a little kid in that movie.
Sitting next to Watto, we also had a version of Warwick that could actually be recognized, and some people assumed he was repeating his role as Willow (presumably implying that the Lucasfilm fantasy movie Willow takes place on some backward planet in the Star Wars galaxy!)
But I believe Warwick’s character in The Phantom Menace had another name, though it was not spoken onscreen.
The Rodian Davis played in TPM was Wald – no relation to Greedo. The character he played sitting next to Watto in the spectator’s box was Weazel, a weapons dealer. According to IMDb he also played a Mos Espa citizen.
He also played Greedo in a deleted scene. Anakin gets into a fight with him. Some comment is made of greedo coming to a bad end.
I didn’t realize he played Greedo in the deleted scene – thanks for the info Superponte. This link is some info on that scene and Greedo the Elder, for anyone interested.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Greedo_the_Elder
Warwick didn’t play the kid Greedo,….he plays another Rodian that gives off to Geedo at the end of the scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgyyBLrYgC0
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44 years old? so he was just 13 years old in the return of the jedi?
Yup. He was just a kid. Google foe pics; it’s a kid’s dream come true.
No way do they show us Luke, Leia & Han in the poster before the trailer. The trailer will be so anticipated because they have done a great job of not revealing ANYTHING about the Big 3!
i bet the big 3 aren’t even in the movie
How do we know he won’t be an Ewok? Did I miss the memo?
Yeah, I suppose you did miss the memo. I believe it was JJ himself,though I may be wrong, who said there won’t be any Ewoks in episode 7
Can anyone verify this? A link to an interview with JJ perhaps.
The following article doesn’t clarify what Davis’s role in TFA will be:
http://www.egotastic.com/2014/10/yes-there-will-be-ewoks-in-star-wars-episode-vii/
We got this from our most credible source.
I don’t think that was much of a hint. I think he just meant, “I’ll be excited to see the FINAL poster showing the original cast,” if it even does.
I think that’s exactly what he meant.
I’m so glad Warwick Davis is in it. For some people these actors have been in our lives longer than our own actual family members.
They want to keep it a secret that the old cast is a part of this movie. I am sure of that! 😉
I’m thinking that his point is that he’s glad they got the original actors. I think he was meaning: “It’s exciting that we got the original Big 3 in this film, hence, on a poster somewhere.”
That’s my take on it.
Otherwise, he’d have to be referring to some really, exceptionally badass poster that he hasn’t seen yet, but still considers the poster as something to wait for, but I find that kind of hard to believe. I’d go with “We got the big 3 back where they belong!” interpretation. m2c
Him playing a different character is actually dissapointing to me. not having any of the ewoks in the movie is kinda lame…just because now all the kids who watched return of the jedi grew up and all of a sudden think ewoks are lame? whatever man…i still love the ewoks…Wicket was a great character. and to see warrick Davis play him again would be wonderful…..hey thanks for helping us destroy the Empire little guys…now we will take our leave and forget about u…..i guess its nothing new….look what JJ did to star trek…the scene with the x wings already told me that this movie is going to look totally different than all the others and its going to not mesh together well with the others….its all grey and blue…dull bullshit just like his star trek movie. hell yeah!!! lets make a direct sequel to return of the jedi and not show one fuckin ewok…dumbasses….even the damn jawas and sand people turn up in every movie……fuckin E.T was in the PT..hell a flying sneaker was shown in space in return of the jedi…but they wont even show an ewok? lol lame
I’m not a huge fan of the Ewoks, but I thought it might be cool if C3PO became their king and brought them into the space age. And that C3PO learned some confidence and got less annoying.
Wicket leads the Grave Robber to the site of Vader’s funeral pyre. After the Grave Robber has what he’s been looking for, he stabs Wicket with one of the tiny blades on his lightsaber hilt, killing him.