Star Wars 7 Casting News, Rumors: J.J. Abrams confirms Jesse Plemons auditioning for 2015's 'Episode VII,' film's script complete

Earlier this month, reports were claiming that Breaking Bad star Jesse Plemons was scheduled to meet with J.J. Abrams and audition for a role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII movie. As of this week, the director himself has confirmed this news. Abrams also revealed that the delayed script that he and Lawrence Kasdan have been working on is now complete, opening up the possibility to start casting and filming in early 2014!

The Plemons rumors from early in January involved him being cast as a Skywalker, perhaps even being Luke's son. Abrams denied the casting of Plemons, stating it was "just one of those crazy rumors." He did however reveal that the rumors weren't too farfetched!

"He is one of the actors that we've talked to, yeah," Abrams said of Plemons.

The director also spoke about the other rumored actors out there that he's heard rumors about.

"But, you know, it's not often that I read about actors that I'm going to be meeting," he explained. "I get to read articles about actors who are going to come in. And so I get to see someone and say, 'Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It's very nice to see you.' It's usually agents talking to people about what's happening. It's just a lot of noise."

In terms of the script, Abrams confirmed its completion while stating his excitement for the film.

"We're working really hard and we've got our script and we're in deep prep," he exclaimed. "Full steam ahead, y'know."

In other Star Wars news, Lucasfilm head and movie producer Kathleen Kennedy recently calmed die hard fans of the series worried about the canon of the series. According to her, the spinoffs that Disney and Lucasfilm announced won't affect the Episodes films that are being made.

"George [Lucas] was so clear as to how that works," she exaplined. "The canon that he created was the Star Wars saga. Right now, Episode Seven falls within that canon. The spin-off movies, or we may come up with some other way to call those films, they exist within that vast universe that he created....There is no attempt being made to carry characters (from the standalone films) in and out of the saga episodes. Consequently, from the creative standpoint, it's a roadmap that George made pretty clear."