Mark Hamill has been chatting about re-boarding the Millennium Falcon in JJ Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens...
NewsWe're still around 11 months away from the release of JJ Abrams'Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the film is currently in its extensive post-production phase. The main shoot finished at the end of last year, and so now Abrams has the job of getting his edit right, and weaving in the numerous special effects shots.
Mark Hamill, for one, has been chatting about the film, telling Extra that the Star Wars series "is now in the hands of the generation who were fans."
Chatting in particular about returning to the Millennium Falcon, he added that "yeah, the deja vu of walking onto the Millennium Falcon again and remembering all these details that they've got exactly right from old photographs and old blueprints... I can't describe the feeling. Even now it seems surreal to me. It seems hard to believe that it's actually happening."
Hamill also noted that seeing George Lucas happy makes him "almost unrecognisable." That now he's not having to concentrate on and fret about all the details himself, he has time to enjoy himself.
Furthermore, he confirmed that he's had to wear a "robe and hood that covers my entire head to go from the trailer to the soundstage" to counteract the drones that have been flying over the set.
Finally on Star Wars: The Force Awakensfor the moment, it seems that the new film will see, for the first time in the live action movies, will have a female stormtrooper. The BBC's Lizo Mzimba dropped the news on his Twitter account, when he confirmed that Amybeth Hargreaves is taking on a stormtrooper role in the new movie. It's unclear at the moment whether Hargreaves will have her own role, or be working as a stunt double.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens lands in cinemas on December 18th 2015. You can read everything we know about the movie right here.
