UPDATE 2! New Star Wars The Force Awakens Featurette: Rey’s Adventure! First Look at Simon Pegg’s Character?
*note: Pegg is not playing the creature above^
Disney released new featurette from The Force Awakens, this time focused on Daisy Ridley’s character Rey. Although there are several cool new scenes, the footage is not spoilerific…
I love the feel from the scene shown in the title picture. It’s pure classic – the Cantina is back!
Thanks to George Wendell for the heads up.
UPDATE!
If you compare one of the creatures from this video and Simon Pegg’s costume from the BTS footage shown at SDCC, you will notice a definite match. Keep in mind that the colors are so different due to the lighting. One shot is interior the other exterior, but you can see the same patterns in the cloth.
So yeah, I think this is our first look at Simon Pegg’s character from The Force Awakens!
UPDATE 2!
Also the appearance of this creature perfectly matches with this rumored description of Pegg’s character by MakingStarWars:
He’s got a huge downturned nose. He’s rather troll-like. He’s an angry looking oaf.
Based on seeing Unkar and seeing the under-portion of his costume, I believe Pegg is almost certainly playing Unkar Plutt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Thanks to @VegaArts for pointing us to MSW’s piece.
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Camera focus on staff. Also the quote “classified” interesting.
The “classified!” part relates to Rey asking BB8 where he is from,
Yeah I got that clearly. I just thought it was interesting.
sounds an awful lot like the “this droid carries the plans of the empire’s new battle station” formula. Meh…
Cant wait for the Finn one
“Im here with the star Daisy Ridley” and yet he forgot John Boyega
Because John Boyega, the other “star”. will appear in another featurette. Why do people keep making this a Ridley vs Boyega contest ?
I know right? I like them both.
Yea. There is still 3 weeks left and Disney will not let go off any chance to promote the movie. So bob don’t worry about it. We’re pretty sure John Boyega’s turn will come….
yeh I think they should have shown them both cos I’m getting confused now
I…I..wow I wonder if there’s anything left of the Falcon-flying-through-Jakku-ship-graveyard sequence we haven’t seen by now (it looks great, though)
How can every little tidbit be so amazing! That was awesome… the alien’s face! The way the Falcon moves! Daisy’s face! lol…
Man… I get like giddy each time I watch one of these. I think I need help.
Daisy is so beautiful! That radiant smile! Prob got one of the best sets of teeth for a scavenger I have ever seen!
yep us Brits have lovely nashers
She scavenged those teeth off a particularly hygienic jawa.
Well at least she didn’t get them from Austin Powers.
Tell that to the rest of the world, because the stereotypical Brit has some pretty messed up “nashers”.
Yeah, I didn’t want to be the one to say it lol!
Since so many scavengers are missing teeth, is that really a fair comparison? 😉
People naturally have pretty good teeth.
Bad teeth is a modern by-product of corn-syrup. Go to any country with no access to modern candy, and the dental quality goes way up.
Depending on whose trash she’s digging through and what food she eats, having good teeth isn’t as hard as you might think.
I don’t know about that, Early humans probably didn’t indulge much in corn syrup and they all pretty much had jacked up teeth.
Thanks, Samuel. I wasn’t asking whether most scavengers do or don’t have teeth. (And I know how bad teeth happen).
Most of the scavengers I see *here* are homeless, have been for a long time, and don’t have teeth.
Besides, i was asking–rather tongue in cheek–if it was fair to compare someone who has something, to someone who doesn’t. 🙂
These Disney featurettes scare me a little bit… I mean for sure I want kids to be able to watch and like the movie, but on the other hand I’m scared we may see a teen adventure… I hope not…
John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, despite being both 23, still have a teenage look (at least in my opinion), so I wouldn’t be surprised if teenagers related to them.
We forgetting about Luke Skywalker & Leia being 19 in ANH? Hamill actually 24 or 25.
I believe Carrie was only 20 or 21 in real life when ANH was shot, but she looked older than her age IMHO, contrary to Daisy who, again, pretty much looks like a teenager.
Mark was about 19 or 20 while filming ANH.
Well they started to film in 2013 which would make both of them 21 years old. So basically both of them were just transitioning into young adults at that time. In fact i felt that Rey at certain angles really looks like a teenager instead of a young adult. And Finn looks like he still has some baby fat on his face in certain trailers.
I’m not too worried only in the sense of it being rated PG-13 and not to mention all the talk of how morally grey it is.
For a movie to be PG-13 these days, it has to be fairly dark, pretty violent, or both. I think it’ll have enough for everyone. I just worry that they might make if feel EXACTLY like an episode 4 remake
There are hints of some possibly huge plot twists that might set TFA more clearly apart from episode 4, but, right now, they do look indeed very similar in terms of basic plot outline.
Yea i get a sense that the movie will turn from light to dark in the later parts based on the latest empire interview.
Nah, Just the opposite. Look at Goonies, Gremlins, Temple of Doom, etc. all of which were rated PG. If anything the MPPA has become more timid over the decades. Much like our PC society.
Gremlins and Temple of Doom would have been rated PG-13 if it had existed, which it didn’t. Before 1984, the MPAA ratings jumped from PG to R. In the early ’80s, more and more films came out that seemed to be in-between: too hardcore for PG, too tame for R. Look at Poltergeist, also a PG film. Temple of Doom, and Spielberg’s fight with the MPAA, led to the creation of PG-13, which would be in effect by the end of 1984. And the MPAA doesn’t retcon their previous ratings, meaning films like Planet of the Apes remain G, etc. Now, a filmmaker can resubmit their film if they want (Lucas did so on all the first five Star Wars films after Episode III was rated PG-13), but aren’t required to.
But that’s exactly what I mean, it was’t unheard of back then and earlier to have nudity, violence, and profanity in PG films. We live in very sanitized times where the industry lacks balls due to being controlled by corporate interests so they kowtow to any group that is “offended” by something that shows the slightest hint of realisim.
That’s not really correct. Again, you are looking at it from the wrong perspective. Before PG-13, what was G and PG was different as they had to cover more. G then was G and lower end PG today, and PG was higher end PG and PG-13 today. It isn’t because of modern society being wimps, it is simply due to the fact that there wasn’t enough ratings so things that were more hardcore (such as swearing and nudity) were in PG films. If it wasn’t R, it HAD to be PG. Again, if PG-13 had existed, both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom would have been that instead of PG, just like Last Crusade was and it isn’t any different from those films. You are using false correlations.
Umm, Nope. Because you are Monday Morning quarterbacking with a revisionist mindset. You ask anybody who grew up before in those times and there were no helicopter parents like today, We were the latchkey kids generation. Almost anything went. There was no carding to speak of, Most of my friends saw The Exorcist as kids which was an adult film because there were no real hypocrite religious conservatives or limp wristed perpetually butthurt liberals ruining cinema as therare in 2015.
Most of the PG-13 violence and nudity today is phony CG shit anyway, So the point is moot.
Dude, I also saw fucking R rated movies as a small child. Don’t act like you are special just because you are older.
Also, I’m not being revisionist, I know that just because something had the same name doesn’t make it the same. PG in 1975 is not the same rating as PG in 1985, but it wasn’t because people got more sensitive! Hell, look at R! There is stuff in R films from the last decade and a half that would have been given rated X in the ’80s! I mean, look at the “unrated cut” of the original Friday the 13th! That version was actually rated X and they had to cut down some of the kills. The amount cut: NINE SECONDS. So don’t act like the past was a bastion of freedom and that they could do whatever the fuck they wanted.
Yes, Because it was real kills in the sense that they used practical effects and actors and not this digital blood and phony visual effects garbage. It’s all ploy to make money by the film companies as I been saying because they want to bring all the teeny boppers in which is why they been softening those genres for ages and no longer make ones for adults anymore. You weren’t there and therefore you’re opinion is completely invalid. Lived experience trumps reading about it decades after the fact by biased sources with an agenda.
I think that it will be Star Wars, not a teen adventure…whatever that means.
Considering that’s what the first draft was, You may be right there.
just one thing, Simon Pegg is in Abu Dhabi while the shot from featurette is most likely from Maz’s Castle, so that’s not the same alien
If you can’t see who’s inside the costume when the camera’s rolling, does it even matter?
sometimes it does, say Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew.. but Pegg? i couldnt care less, its funny people get excited over him and his role
I agree with you for lead characters, like 3PO or Chewie.
But for a background cameo, to me it doesn’t really matter.
It hasn’t been discussed, but the “world premiere” is sadly excluding two countries, in which fans will have to wait a whole week full of internet spoilers.
The company, which has the SW Film Rights in Greece, has been ignoring the calls and Facebook posts for weeks, but now the fandom is organizing a meeting in the central square of Athens this Sunday to demonstrate it’s frustration.
There is also this ongoing petition (with ENGLISH Text at the bottom) for bringing TFA on the 17th instead of the 24th.
Please support this endeavour with your “signature”: https://www.change.org/p/bring-star-wars-the-force-awakens-to-greece-at-its-original-air-date-18th-of-december?recruiter=54204526&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
There are many of us in Greece too.
Signed it. We almost had the same problem here in Italy: TFA was set to be released in January to make room for an italian comedy movie. Eventually, they decided to postpone the comedy and to release TFA on December 16th – I wish the same will happen to you in Greece.
MTFBWY
Grazie mille!
🙂 Παρακαλώ (hope I get it right – if not, blame Google translate!)
Good luck friend! Hope you get to see TFA on December 18th! (Or very close to that!)
Wow! I cannot imagine you guys not sharing with us at the same time…. Good luck!
BB-8 is better than R2D2 by a long shot he is way cuter oh my god
R-Who now ?
CHOPPER
EG-86
BU-4D
no….r-2 d-2 is better
Blasphemy 😉
Artoo’s saved the heroes in all six existing films.
Nice!!!!
The link in that video is IMO the most comprehensive and accurate compilation of all of the existing footage and behind the scenes footage in chronological order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6fm1Yl8_vU
Nice, but I think they got the order wrong, those big wide shots on Jakku I think are from the start of the movie, they are establishing shots so I think they come before the village pillage.
Yeah, that would make sense. Plus, I’ve heard people speculate that the first shot would the super close up of Rey with the goggles on (it looks like stars just before she opens that door thing). I also don’t think some of the later Jakku stuff matches up as far as the sun set and all. But, it appears to be so much more accurate than most of the attempted chronological edits.
Yeah it’s still awesome to see it all in one place 🙂
I don’t think the first shot would be the speculated Rey with goggles on. I think the first we say of Rey is her on her speeder approaching the Super Star Destroyer.
Reffered to Daisy as ” The Star of the Movie “
yeh and john boyega kept saying he was told by jj that he was “the star of the movie” it is getting confusing now, Who is the STAR?
Who’s the star of the Dukes of Hazzard (I know…the car lol), or Chips, or the original Battlestar Galactica or Lethal Weapon? I think it’s a buddy movie. Love those!
Dukes of Hazzard ? It’s the General Lee haha
Lol wellll not to geek out too much, or take it too seriously, but I think the backlash and low ratings during the season they replaced Bo and Luke with Coy and Vance proved that it was Bo and Luke that carried the show.
You know I had completely forgotten about that until now..yeah..it was dead to me after that
There won’t be one, it’ll be split between two people like the prequels
The official trailer, poster, and plot synopsis all point to Rey being the main lead and focus of the movie, with Finn being the main co-star.
The soundtrack to A New Hope references Leia several times, but never Luke. Don’t trust those titles too much.
True.
She probably is. Don’t think Disney would make a black guy their face of this franchise.
There can be more than one star in the movie. Let’s not get
bogged down with details.
THE star.
What i mean let’s wait for John’s featurette before further judgement. He might refer to John as the star too. Patience.
If they said “A star” or “ONE of the stars” but not “THE star”.
Harrison Ford.
He looks hideous……..I love it!
Yeah, Pegg isn’t the most handsome fellow in the world.He should probably keep the mask on…
Lol.
Maybe Pegg’s character is her Boss that she previously mentioned.
He looks to me like Unkar Plutt, a junk dealer with enough money to hire “thugs”.
Cool.
We also see behind Rey and J.J. the short alien that is on the front of one of the books they released the cover photos of some books coming out soon. Was also photographed with Warwick Davis. From the book cover there appears to be two so I am sure Warwick is the other one. Bending in front of ‘him’ seems to be the alien from the behind the scenes featurette that originally people were saying was a Mad Man at a concept art.
Check out that hairy creature towering above J.J. Like a giant monkey.
Chewie
Looks a lot like Chewie, but was under the impression he doesn’t appear in the movie until after Jakku.
Its wearing Chewie’s bandoleer so it must be him. So either the rumours are flase and Disney has put out one of the most successful disinformation campaigns out there of all time, or that isn’t Pegg’s character and the set is Maz Kakata’s Castle
It is Maz’s castle. Also, the creature Finn is talking to in the first pic is different than the one on the right in the last pic with JJ and Daisy.
I’m referring to the photo with J.J. Simon Pegg filmed his scenes in Abu Dhabi, in the BTS video we saw him in the heat of the desert of Jakku, so if it is Simon Pegg then it can’t be Maz’s castle. The photo with Finn is more likely from Maz’s castle.
If both pics are Maz’s castle then it must rule out it being Simon Pegg.
That, or his character is at the castle as well. Goes to show I think we don’t know everything yet. I think they are still keeping some secrets from us.
Yeah, there’ll still be surprises for sure. We still have all the detail to enjoy.
Watched the video again, you’re right it’s obviously Chewie. Maybe it’s not Pegg’s character after all.
I was hoping for a shot by shot image still gallery. There r things I can’t see on my phone, even when I pause the thing.
Looks great!
I knew that was Peggs character. Nice.
How did you know? This is the first time we see this creature.
Probably talking about the alien on the top thumbnail we have seen numerous times.
I wonder if they are crawling inside the Falcon when hiding on that space freighter.
why do they keep the “this film is not yet rated” banner?
The trailers and promos with “this film is not yet rated” on them, were completed before the film was rated.
A higher quality version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqf5evIVOeU
Thanks. For some reason the video in the article stops after 20 seconds.
STAR of Star Wars and they play the Luke Skywalker theme here which I know is just a temp track but still interesting nonetheless.
Are you kidding with that video?
How do you mean?
Simon Pegg can fuck off, with his hateful, incredibly delusional comments about Star Wars and his pompous attitude towards fans, he’s a megalomaniac. If you disagree with Pegg’s opinion about film and all things Star Wars he makes it clear you are not only obviously wrong, but should be ridiculed and harassed into submission. I hope this scourge on the Star Wars name goes away permanently, he is am embarrassment to the fan community. #SimonPegg #HatefulPrick
Way to be the bigger man and not be hateful back. Oh wait…. Anyway I would not call him hateful at all. Honesty is hard to come by. If he does not like a film then he does not have to mask his opinion just because it may opposite a sensitive fanboy.
I don’t think anyone is saying he “has” to do anything. But it’s in poor taste to openly criticize fans of the movies, and fans of said movies are within their right to say “fuck you” in response. If that makes them overly sensitive and hateful then whatever.
He is right tho. I know its not easy to realise if you are a fanatic, but the prequels sucked. And he isnt really hateful, just has an opinion and isnt scared to voice it…
You need a Snickers.
LOL
😉
I don’t like the Prequels, but I can’t blame Scott here. Simon doesn’t simply criticize the Prequels; he goes out of his way to criticize Prequel fans. Does no one else think that crosses the line, especially for someone involved with the new film?
No. If every other movie show lists the PT’s (or at least AotC) as some of the worst movies ever made, there’s more than a general consensus. And he can then criticize fans of those movies for lacking a general idea about what makes a movie good.
RotS is a guilty pleasure, because kids get killed and we can see Annakin burn, limbless .. but it’s in no way a good movie.
Awesome. Best comment I have EVER read on these boards. Your comment should be immortalized in gold writing at the top of this site. Man you hit the nail so on the head.
lmao
That’s your opinion, and their opinion, but it isn’t a fact. Even “what makes a movie good” is subjective. And if people really think the prequels are some of “the worst movies ever made” then we clearly differ on what we think makes a movie good. Movies are works of art, either you like it or you don’t, no need to shit on people for liking or not liking a movie. But that’s my two cents anyway
I think you are missing the irony of your accusations.
Yeah, nothing hateful about telling someone to fuck off and go away permanently because you disagree with his views on some movies. Grow up.
Sorry but you’re a small minded idiot, your comments show you up for it. So Simon Pegg isn’t allowed to have views, your views apparently take precedence..? Nothing I’ve heard from Simon Pegg is “hateful” etc. Just inciteful commentary form someone who know A LOT about what he is talking about, who’s achieved a hell of a lot in his life as a result.
I don’t really care that he hates the prequels, it’s his sh** talk against ones who like them. It’s all subjective opinion anyway, it’s art, not science.
I’m not from the UK so it’s “who’s Simon Peg” ?
Im not from the UK either, but I know Pegg. He is a comedian and writer. He was Scotty in Star Trek and Benji in the Mission Impossible series.
pegg is one of the biggest fanboys of star wars and he is VERY influential on geek culture, he is in the star trek reboot and he plays Scotty.
Also Simon Pegg is mostly known for acting in the cornetto trilogy, a series of comedy films directed by edgar wright.
Check out the comedy TV series ‘Spaced’. Full of pop culture references, including Star Wars. It’s really good.
Checkout ‘Shaun of the Dead’
Ridleeeeey!
God this film looks so good. So many memorable images. Seems like every other shot in this film is iconic already. Sorry to continue my hate on the prequels but… you know where I’d have gone with that haha.
Seriously dude -_-
You didn’t like the PT? Fine, that’s cool. It’s been 10+ years, get over it and move on. No need to bring it up at every turn whenever SW conversations come up as not everyone has the same opinion as you do much less want to see it (and frankly, you’re coming off as a self-entitled person who acts like a kid throwing a tantrum and in general, as a troll. Maybe you think you come off as sly and slick but you’re actually not all that clever). For you, just talk TFA and TFA only (without engaging in shade-throwing)
P.S. You have been reported for derailing a conversation. Keep doing this and you’ll continue to be reported until you eventually get banned from this site (maybe then you’ll learn your lesson). This goes for everyone else that visits this site as well.
Oh my gosh, you just killed my pet snail! It was probably all the salt…
Anyway, you need to stop being so butthurt and self-righteous and just get over yourself and your messed up view of what is and is not “vital” to a conversation. You’re welcome to GIVE your opinion (as your name implies), but when you start reporting people for even MENTIONING the prequels and start lobbying for them to get BANNED, then I have a problem with you. He made a jab at the prequels. So what!? I hardly consider that “derailing a conversation”. You DO NOT get to dictate this conversation. You are not the boss here, nor are you a mod. You may continue to say what you want, but you need to stop messing with everyone else. You are not the police, and you do not get the privilege of saying ANYTHING to “everyone else that visits this site as well”. If you can’t understand this and be respectful, then I am going to have to report YOU for incorrect conduct and false reports. That is all.
Well said.
Thank you.
Yeah, that’s not cool man. I love the prequels, but people have a right to their opinion and they shouldn’t be banned for it. Unless the people that run this site decide to start taking action against people for speaking out against the prequels (which I don’t think is necessary honestly) we have no right to threaten people like that. I understand all the prequel hate gets old really quickly but if it bothers you that much I’d suggest you just not read the comments
Actually the PT is not bad if you remove the cheese. I suggest you look in Youtube for the Anti Cheese versions. I am sure you will not be disappointed. They are wonderfully edited to be almost seamless. I like these versions very much.
“What do you think kids are going to love from this movie?”
Kids are supposed to stay away from this, isn’t it? Disney… clear your mind!
PG-13, yet still “for kids”.
I found an even higher quality version with perfect audio and no surrounding control panel. The only problem is that it’s not located on YouTube…
https://streamable.com/f8x5?t=24.6
Where did this video come from?