'Star Wars 7' Title News, Casting SPOILERS & Villain Plot Rumors: Is Emperor Palpatine Appearing In 2015's 'Episode VII' w/ Inquisitors?

Star Wars: Episode VII rumors keep popping up out of the woodwork as the 2015 release date approaches, but the latest speculation is about a returning character as the villain of the J.J. Abrams movie. This could be a huge spoiler or just another rumor, but according to source Emperor Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, is reportedly the main antagonist in the new trilogy just as he was in the previous films.

This new rumor comes from Latino Review, which has been correct on a number of rumors for this and many other movies in the past. Here is an excerpt:

A lot can happen during the fall of an Empire, and maybe the moments we took to see our heroes party with the Ewoks was a forced perspective on something much more sinister. We all know that Lando blew up the second Death Star in the Millennium Falcon, and we know Luke had enough time to carry his dying father to a shuttle bay and unmask him. We also know, from Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, that when you throw someone (or in Luke's case, himself) down the tubes of a large space station, you might not necessarily die.

Meanwhile, Ian McDiarmid, who portrays the Emperor in the previous films, has denied and then teased this rumors validity. In 2013, he said he was not going to be in the film, but just last month he teased his involvement in the film.

"They are going to take many twists on the story as the years go on, and I guess they may go back to a time - I've got no clue, I'm speaking off the top of my head - when the Emperor ran the universe," he said. "And I don't want anyone else to play him, do I?"

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(via Slash Film)