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According to a new, mysterious casting call that went out at the end of last week, Star Wars: Episode VII might be featuring Chewbacca or at least another Wookiee character!
This story comes from Den of Geek, which found the casting call on an audition series called "spotlight." Details about this casting call were limited to "UNTITLED STUDIO FEATURE" by Walt Disney Pictures/LucasFilm/Bad Robot.
Check out the casting call right here:
"Tall Man (Male, 21 - 60) Male, 7 ft to 7.3 ft tall with a slim/thin build and upright posture. Not too worked out or too 'thick set' especially in the shoulders. Broad facial features would be a bonus."
Clearly this looks like a casting call for Chewbacca or at least a character along the lines of everyone's favorite giant, cuddly sidekick.
Peter Mayhew, the original actor to play Chewbacca, has recently undergone some medical procedures so he is most likely out for a role reprisal. This could easily be a call for his replacement.
Or this rumor could just be completely false!
What do you think? Will we be seeing Chewbacca or another Wookiee in the upcoming Star Wars film?
In other news, Star Wars 1313, a video game for the franchise that experimented with live action filming that was later converted into a game, might not be canceled after all. In fact, some new footage of the project shows just how developers used real actors for the project.
"The prototype was a film created on a games engine and a vision statement for where ILM would like to go in the future," said LucasFilm's chief technology strategy officer Kim Libreri.
Libreri spoke more about the project:
Everyone has seen what we can do in movies, and I think most people will agree the video game industry is catching up quite quickly, especially in the next generation of console titles. I'm pretty sure within the next decade, we're going to see a convergence in terms of traditional visual effects capabilities -making realistic fire, creatures, and environments - but working completely interactively. We think that computer graphics are going to be so realistic in real time computer graphics that, over the next decade, we'll start to be able to take the post out of post-production; where you'll leave a movie set and the shot is pretty much complete...
...If you combine video games with film-making techniques, you can start to have these real deep, multi-user experiences. Being able to animate, edit and compose live is going to change the way we work and it's really going to bring back the creative experience in digital effects.
Check out this 1313 footage:
