{"id":19160,"date":"2014-05-17T07:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T07:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=19160"},"modified":"2014-05-17T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T07:53:59","slug":"star-wars-day-one-filming-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=19160","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: ‘Day one’ filming begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Star Wars film franchise has begun shooting, production company Bad Robot has announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n

The film company, founded by the movie’s director JJ Abrams,\u00a0tweeted a picture<\/a>\u00a0of a branded clapper board with the hashtag “#dayone”.<\/p>\n

A dusting of sand on the picture appears to confirm initial scenes are being shot in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, actor Oscar Isaac told BBC Radio 4’s Front Row that production was due to start this month.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old said: “The whole process is under way. We’re shooting in the studios here in London.”<\/p>\n

Isaac was one of the new cast members announced for the film in April, alongside Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.<\/p>\n

Recently seen in Inside Llewyn Davis, the actor said his family were “very excited” by his latest role.<\/p>\n

“My uncle and my cousin have galleries of the Star Wars toys they’ve collected,” he told Kirsty Lang.<\/p>\n

“So once I told them I had been cast, he nearly fainted, my uncle. He got sweaty and pale. He was very excited.<\/p>\n

“The idea that I could be a toy for him is the craziest thing.”<\/p>\n

Little is known about Isaac’s role in Star Wars: Episode VII, and the actor admitted he was under strict orders not to reveal details.<\/p>\n

However he spoke about being cast in the movie by director JJ Abrams, saying he had been called to a meeting in Paris earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“I’m a huge Star Wars fan but at the same time I’m defensively pessimistic, so I assumed that maybe it was a different project,” he said.<\/p>\n

Once Abrams confirmed the meeting was about Star Wars, Isaac said he “tried to play it cool – but, I mean, it was clear I was just so excited he wanted me to be a part of the whole acomplia<\/a> thing.”<\/p>\n

The actor also confessed he used to dress up as characters from the outer space blockbuster franchise as a child.<\/p>\n

“Not as a Jedi Knight,” he stressed, “but I dressed up as a gonk droid a couple of times.<\/p>\n

“I liked the tertiary characters or the ones you don’t necessarily look at. I was a huge Boba Fett fan.”<\/p>\n

The film will be the first Star Wars title released by Disney, after creator George Lucas sold the rights to the franchise in 2012.<\/p>\n

It will also see the return of the three principal characters from the original trilogy – Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford).<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Guatemalan-born Isaac was nominated for several awards, including a best actor Golden Globe, for starring in the Coen Brothers’ folk music drama Inside Llewyn Davis.<\/p>\n

He told Front Row the accolades led directly to his latest role, in the thriller The Two Faces of January.<\/p>\n

“Early on, before I’d been cast in Llewyn Davies, [director Hossein Amini] had shown me the script because we’d worked together on Drive.<\/p>\n

“At the time there was very little chance I’d be cast – but once I was cast in Llewyn Davies, that opened up a lot of doors.”<\/p>\n

Laughing, he added: “They couldn’t get the money to make the movie with some weirdo named Oscar.”<\/p>\n

“It’s kind of crazy that’s how it works, but that’s how it’s worked for a very long time.”<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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