In an announcement that should surprise no one who caught the first behind-the-scenes photo for Star Wars: Episode VII last week, it has been confirmed that 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII will feature the return of everyone’s favorite beeping robot.
Confirmed on Star Wars’ official website that the “overweight glob of grease” will be making his triumphant big screen return in Star Wars: Episode VII. The news itself came from Meet Lee Towersey and Oliver Steeples, members of the R2-D2 Builders Club.
It all started when Kathleen Kennedy toured the R2-D2 Builders area at Celebration Europe this past summer in Germany,” Steeples said to the Star Wars blog. “She posed for pictures with us, looked at all the droids we’d built and was very complimentary. I mentioned that the R2-D2 Builders in the UK were available if required, as a semi-joke. When I was contacted to work on the film by [executive producer] Jason McGatlin, it was on her recommendation.”
While it is not yet officially confirmed that Han (Harrison Ford), Luke (Mark Hamill) and Leia (Carrie Fisher) are fully back, it appears this little pile of rust buckets is. That gives R2D2 seven-for-seven. Not bad.