UPDATE! Star Wars: The Force Awakens Extras/Crew Members Uncovered. Resistance Fighter Added.
One of our users on The Cantina has done a bit of detective work and found out that a number of extras and crew members have been revealed through the casting agency website StarNow. These roles actually end up confirming a couple of minor details about the plot based on the concept art that’s been seen, so this is an interesting find.
From The Cantina:
Siggi Jaiyeola: 2014 / EXTRA / AVCO / POP CASTING / PIRATE
Amber Smith: AVCO- with we got POP : Politician – Pinewood studios, London, UK
Ancuta Breaban: 2014, Feature Film, Politician , SWVII, Walt Disney Picture, J J Abrams
Katy Kartwheel: Major Hollywood Production directed by J.J Abrams : Stilt-Walking Robot, London, UK
Akosua Duah-Boachie : Role – Extra: Apart of Main Street Crowd / Production: AVCO Film (Feature) / Director: J.J Abrams / Production Co/Venue: Foodles Production (UK) Ltd/Pinewood Studios
Mark Epstein: STAR WARS EPISODE VII : Supporting artist, Pinewood studios, UK
Jamie Chambers: (“Heavy Weapons Stormtrooper”) Star Wars VII : Heavy Storm Trooper, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Francisco Rabelo: (worked Jun/Jul/Aug 2014) AVCO project : evil castle crew character… 4 days shoot .. Pinewood, London, UK
Alvin Chen: AVCO (2015) : Space Pirate; Featured Artist / BIGGEST Hollywood Sci-Fi Movie, London, UK
Michael Chappell: “AVCO” (LucasFilm) : Stand-in for ‘Clan Leader’, Pinewood Studios, UK
Special thanks to regular user MagnarTheGreat for finding this information.
UPDATE!
Yet another extra uncovered this time by our Cantina member Carne:
Geraint Jones – Resistance fighter star wars (extra).
Who is the resistance fighting for/against? Are they part of the rebels? Are the rebels still rebels in TFA? More questions than answers, but quite interesting nevertheless.
So, what does all this random data say about The Force Awakens? Quite a bit, actually. Now we know about:
a padawan, a female stormtrooper, a creature performer, character named Xavier, a politician, main street crowd, heavy weapons stormtrooper, evil castle crew character, space pirate, clan leader, a resistance fighter and more.
For our other story on the Spotlight casting agency click HERE.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
Sounds cool
There’s someone named Katy Kartwheel??
I’d think that could be a stage name. I caught that too.
She has a cousin called “Billy Backflip”.
And don’t forget her brother-in-law Sammy Somersault!
Oh, you forgot her sister-in-law!
Allison Allensburg
And now its ruined
I actually broke out into laughter when I read, “Billy Backflip”.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read on this site.
Isn’t she a character in this season’s AHS:FS?
Francisco Rabelo: (worked Jun/Jul/Aug 2014) AVCO project : evil castle crew character… 4 days shoot .. Pinewood, London, UK
Wow, evil castle?
Wow, this is a great find. Space pirates! Perhaps Han’s old buddies.
Probably not, Alvin Chen looks very young.
Please no, not Captain Jack Sparrow!
Space pirates….. Handooooo!!!!
Red kawakiian jester monkey.
Evil castle FTW!
Politician…. NOOOOOOOOO!
:p
However in JJ I trust.
Maybe it’ll be similar to that meeting at Starfleet headquarters during Star Trek Into Darkness. Minus the surprise attack.
Or plus. ;P
You realize that Leia was a politician, right? Tarkin, Mothma, all politicians. One of Vader’s first lines in the OT was talking about the Senate.
Tarkin, Leia, Lando and Mon Mothma were also politicians.
Oh, and The EMPEROR. Remember that guy? 😛
I can see politicians working as long as it’s just a quick scene that doesn’t drag the pace of the film down. These actresses seem to have a Mon Mothma vibe… maybe the rebels did successfully create a new republic?
In before people circlejerking about “politicians” hinting at Episode I style boringness.
I’m pretty sure Lucasfilm/Disney isn’t stupid enough to repeat the mistakes of the prequels. Put down your goddamn pitchforks, kids.
so they add a stupid little jar jar robot?
I would say that’s more like an R2 unit than a Gungan..
The droid stilts costume sounds AWESOME! If it looks good I’ll find a way to procure a screen accurate one for Halloween.
I’m guessing the stilt droid is IG-88 from ESB.
Just finished reading JW Rinzler’s THE MAKING OF THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. I wish I had a similar book called THE MAKING OF THE FORCE AWAKENS right now.
What was removed?
-Stilt-Walking Robot
One of the names – Viral’s call, not mine.
Technically speaking, you didn’t miss anything that was already discussed in that last paragraph.
I’m excited at the idea of politics being in The Force Awakens because I want to see how Disney handles those scenes.
How will the politicians be portrayed? Will we feel engaged? Will the scenes be dramatic or boring? Etc.
what is all this hate towards politics? A great deal of Star Wars was in the political area. I can’t help it if some of you fans can only understand explosions and killing scenes.
As the poster stated, it was how the politics were dealt with within the structure of the film, not just the fact that politics were involved..
….and TRADE NEGOTIATIONS!!!!
If your in Canada/US watch CPAC/C-SPAN for a few hours. There’s no need to make a scifi movie about it.
Also, I’m pretty sure if you did a poll most movie goers would not pay to go see a political film.
Well LeIA is technically a politician so a scene with her….before the whole Rose puppet thing I had heard Lupita was a politician too.
Does this basically confirm Coruscant?
I’m sure Coruscant will be in the film, or in one of the ST films atleast.
(*spoiler alert* for those who care)
For whatever it’s worth: In that concept art leaked last week, it looks like Van Sydow is sitting in a coruscant sort of room… though it could be any type of industrial setting. But the way he’s dressed leads me to believe it could potentially be coruscant possibly.
evil castle mmmm.. sounds to me that a certain mr skywalker could be needing saved coz a certain mr hamill was in Ireland for that shoot, not saying he has turned to the darkside but probably just lost his way and needs han, finn and rey to get him back to save the galaxy or maybe am way off
I think the “sinister castle” is the prison seen in The Clone Wars. The halls looked a lot like the concept art showing “octogon doorways.”
In the EU Vader have a castle in Mustafar.
I thought it was on Vjun.
‘These roles actually end up confirming a couple of minor details about the plot’
I’m not sure how these roles confirm much of anything. Any or all of these characters could have 3 seconds of screen time or have their scene cut altogether. Many of them could simply be background fluff in a Mos Eisley cantina, or a Coruscant bar type scene.
I don’t think they meant “a droid that uses stilts” – I think they meant a person using stilts under a droid costume (The way you would make a very tall droid using practical filming – as apposed to CGI)
Stilts WTF ?!
I hope the extras labeled as Politicians doesn’t mean were are getting a rehash of episode 1.
Don’t worry, this doesn’t have the story writer of Episode 4 or 5, so I think we’re safe. JJ Abrams took over the story, the guy who made those Star Trek reboots, so this will be grrrrrreat!
Those Star Trek reboots weren’t grrrrrreat!
the resistance fighter
hope they go the way i wanted them to go , people dont want the empire , the republic or the jedi messing in their lives anymore and just want to go their own way and do their own thing.
Haven’t I read that the production codename “pirates” were in reference to Rebel fighters? I’m pretty sure I remember seeing that in the last month or two, so my guess is that anyone listed as a pirate is going to be seen at a Rebel base
Old news again?
What about the new rumours of Solo on the Rebel show?
Or was that covered already?
Actually, I already reported on that one – check the update for the recent Rebels article.
okay reread that site
Should be a cool episode if done right 🙂
Does Politicians = long scenes of trade negotiations, political debates, meetings between Empire officials and Rebel leaders. I hope not.
I don’t mind a few short scenes, but hoping for Jedi mysticism, more about the force, space action scenes, non- political drama, some lightsaber dueling
Evil castle character – loads of jedi ,hopefully !
Rey will wind up being a Solo, which is technically a Skywalker since Solo rubbed dirty parts with Leia.
But I’m with you about Gleeson being Luke’s son. That’s what I thought when I first saw the casting. I’m holding out hope that the basic framework of the EU is still intact with Rey being Jaina and Gleeson being Ben, even with the rest of the EU demoted to Legends.
Shame we haven’t found out who is playing the spirits of Plagueis & Sidious…. who are Luke’s tormentors at the inner door of Darth __________’s tomb.
Gonna need a source for that.
Okay from the rumors lately here are my thoughts on these roles:
Politicians: The NR and the Empire need to negotiate a peace treaty right? So they need politicians to do this as well as get assasinated for some WAR!!
Pirates: Rey, Finn, and Poe have to get off of Tatooine somehow right? Why not hire some pirates?
Resistance Fighters: To fight for a resistance DUH
I read a new rumor…
J.J. wants to release star wars 7 sooner
Because of fear of more leaks and spoilers
…he wants a summer release!
It’s false. The movie is locked for a December 18th release.