{"id":32833,"date":"2014-03-12T22:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=32833"},"modified":"2014-03-12T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:05:04","slug":"five-up-for-star-wars-episode-vii-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/12\/five-up-for-star-wars-episode-vii-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Up For STAR WARS: EPISODE VII Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/StarWarsLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25595\" alt=\"StarWarsLogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/StarWarsLogo.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/StarWarsLogo.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/StarWarsLogo-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After months of searching, with numerous rumors swirling around the process, J J Abrams may have narrowed down his choice to take one of the new leads in the upcoming <strong>Star Wars: Episode VII<\/strong> to just five possibilities. According to Variety, the five names on the short list are &#8211; Ed Speleers (<em>Dowtown Abbey<\/em>), John Boyega (<strong>Attack The Block<\/strong>), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/10\/jesse-plemons-strong-contender-for-star-wars-episode-7-role\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a> on Jesse Plemons (<em>Breaking Bad<\/em>) and theater actors Matthew James Thomas and Ray Fisher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/news\/star-wars-4-1201125355\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> is reporting that Disney has had no comment but that the role these actors are up for is a Jedi apprentice, a character that emerged from Abrams&#8217; rewrites. Original screenwriter Michael Arndt&#8217;s script reportedly centered more on the offspring of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), but they have supposedly been moved off to a more supporting role.<\/p>\n<p>Filming is set to begin next month, so a decision will have to made soon as to how will get the coveted role. Variety&#8217;s sources are saying that delay is in part due to some execs and creatives on the film wanting the cast to be more ethnically diverse than previous <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> films may have been.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Abrams has said on numerous occasions that he wants to have a diversified cast, which is why actors like David Oyewolo and Michael B. Jordan tested early on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Star Wars Episode VII<\/strong> is scheduled to hit theaters on December 18th, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Are we getting close to a final announcement?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/12\/five-up-for-star-wars-episode-vii-lead\/\" title=\"Five Up For STAR WARS: EPISODE VII Lead\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[7150,1059,6985,7151,7152,7153,5830],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ed-speleers","8":"tag-j-j-abrams","9":"tag-jesse-plemons","10":"tag-john-boyega","11":"tag-matthew-james-thomas","12":"tag-ray-fisher","13":"tag-star-wars-episode-vii"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32833"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=32833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}