Today brings the sad news that Kenny Baker, the actor who played R2-D2 in six Star Wars movies, has died at the age of 81.
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In a recent interview with Cinema Blend, George Lucas was asked to divulge some of the ideas which he says he had cooked up for a new Star Wars trilogy before Lucasfilm was acquired by Disney back in 2012. He said:

“The ones that I sold to Disney, they came up to the decision that they didn’t really want to do those. So they made up their own. So it’s not the ones that I originally wrote.”

Depending on how you look at it, this could either be a relief or a disappointment. Lucas created…
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Martial arts stars from The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2 are set to appear in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Twitch Film has learned. The Raid lead Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman will all appear in The Force Awakens, however it is currently unknown in what capacity. They’ll likely be putting their combat skills to good use though, as J.J. Abrams has committed to using real-life stunts in place of a purely digital effects-approach.
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Last week’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer has now been viewed over 40 million times on YouTube – and it hasn’t even been out a week yet. The analysis has been endless. We only confirmed the other day who the voiceover was provided by. But although the trailer featured much of what we’re used to seeing in the Star Wars movies – the Tatooine desert; Stormtroopers; the Millennium Falcon – it held back one particular aspect: the original cast. While Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and…
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