Billy Dee Williams Confirmed as Guest at ‘Star Wars’ Celebration
More good news regarding Star Wars Celebration this week! As revealed during the latest episode of This Week in Star Wars, Lando Calrissian himself, Billy Dee Williams, has his ticket for the event, where he will be signing autographs and posing for photo ops.
It was also revealed on Wednesday that the schedule will feature a panel celebrating the 40th anniversary of Return of the Jedi, with eight members of the original cast being part of it (see the list below). With Billy Dee Williams coming to London, we can’t imagine him missing that panel. Also expected to be there, though not yet announced, is Harrison Ford, who will likely be at Celebration to promote Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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Return of the Jedi cast members confirmed to be there are Michael Carter (Bib Fortuna), Sean Crawford (Yak Face), Tim Dry (J’Quille), Femi Taylor (Oola), Mike Edmonds (Logray), Mike Quinn (Nien Nunb), Tim Rose (Admiral Ackbar), and Caroline Blakiston (Mon Mothma).
The guest list of Star Wars Celebration so far includes Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka in The Clone Wars and Rebels), Dee Bradley Baker (voice of all the clones in The Clone Wars, Rebels, and The Bad Batch), Giancarlo Esposito (Moff Gideon), Indira Varma (Tala Durith in Obi-Wan Kenobi), Matt Lanter (voice of Anakin Skywalker in The Clone Wars), Vivien Lyra Blair (young Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi), Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker), Dennis Lawson (Wedge Antilles), Mads Mikkelsen (Galen Erso), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), James Arnold Taylor (voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the Clone Wars and Tales of the Jedi series), Gwendoline Christie (Captain Phasma), Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand), Matthew Wood (member of the team at Skywalker Sound and voice of several characters in animation and live-action, including General Grievous; he also played Bib Fortuna on set during the mid-credits sequence of The Mandalorian season 2 finale), Joonas Suotamo (Chewbacca in the sequel trilogy and Solo: A Star Wars Story), Silas Carson (Ki-Adi-Mundi), Aidan Cook (Two Tubes in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Andor; he also played Boolio in The Rise of Skywalker), and Rosario Dawson (live-action incarnation of Ahsoka Tano).
You can book your slot for autograph signings or photo-ops for any of the guests above here, except for Sean Crawford, who was the only one doing it at no cost and who sold out in no time. Single-day tickets for Star Wars Celebration, which will be returning to the ExCeL Centre in London on April 7-10, are still available here.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
