Lucasfilm has announced the cast for Star Wars Episode IX, the final chapter in its Skywalker saga.
Filming is to begin in London next week, the studio said.
Set for theatrical release in December 2019, the movie will feature
previously unreleased footage of the late Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa
shot for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Fisher died in 2016 at the age of
60.
"We desperately loved Carrie Fisher," director J.J. Abrams said.
"Finding a truly satisfying conclusion to the Skywalker saga without her
eluded us. We were never going to recast, or use a CG character. With
the support and blessing from her daughter, Billie (Lourd,) we have
found a way to honor Carrie's legacy and role as Leia in Episode IX by
using unseen footage we shot together in Episode VII."
Also set to return for Episode IX are Mark Hamill, who played Leia's
brother Luke before the character died in the eighth movie The Last
Jedi, as well as Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian, and
Anthony Daniels, who played C-3P0 in the franchise.
Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o,
Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran, Joonas Suotamo and Billie Lourd will
be back as Rey, Kylo Ren, Finn, Poe, Maz Kanata, General Hux, Rose
Tico, Chewbacca and Lieutenant Connix respectively.
Joining the cast for Episode IX are Keri Russell, Richard E. Grant and Naomi Ackie.
"I saw @starwars in 1977 when I was at Drama School. Being cast in the
final instalment of the Skywalker trilogy in 2018, feels like an utterly
out of body experience! #StarWars thank you #ninagold," Grant
tweeted.
The project reunites Russell with director J.J. Abrams, with whom she
has worked on Felicity and Mission: Impossible III.
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