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The actress, who died in December 2016, will appear with footage shot for "The Awakening of the Force," which director JJ Abrams did not use.
The shooting of Star Wars: Episode IX is scheduled to begin next week, Disney said Friday, July 28, revealing, Surprisingly, the posthumous appearance in this episode of Carrie Fisher, as well as the presence of the star of the series Mark Hamill, aka Luke Skywalker.
The last installment of the Skywalker saga that began in 1977 with The Star Wars is scheduled to be released in theaters in December 2019. The story begins again after the death of Luke Skywalker in the last episode. Princess Leia, played by Carrie Fisher, was still alive at the end of Star Wars, The Last Jedi but the actress died in December 2016, shortly after the shooting was over. [19659005] "We loved Carrie Fisher madly" wrote in a statement JJ Abrams, back to the controls for episode IX after making the seventh opus Star Wars, The Awakening of the Force in 2015 "Finding a satisfactory conclusion to the wise Skywalker without it escaped us. We were never going to start casting again or use " a computer-generated virtual character, he added.
Disney says Carrie Fisher's appearance would be allowed by the use of previous images aired at the shooting of the seventh episode, with the approval of his daughter, Billie Heavy.
Luke Skywalker back
It will not be the first time that Carrie Fisher will appear in a Star Wars movie while being absent from shooting. Rogue One the spin-off of 2016, was in theaters for two weeks when the death of the actress was announced. A rejuvenated version of Carry Fisher in Princess Leia appears in this film, thanks to a controversial computer technology, which has been abandoned this time
Another surprise, the announcement of the presence of Mark Hamill in the credits. His character, Luke Skywalker, at the center of the saga, however disappeared at the end of the last opus. Will it come back in flesh and bones, or in hologram form, as is the case for the dead Jedi knights? For the moment, no element of the plot has filtered.
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One thing is certain, the fans will also find another character of the saga, since Billy Dee Williams will take over the role of Lando, thirty-five years after having played Han Solo's accomplice in episodes V and VI. 19659006] Finally, well-known heads will be back for the ultimate segment of the saga, like Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyongo, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Marie Tran and Joonas Suotamo. Naomi Ackie and Richard E. Grant join the cast while composer John Williams, author of the music for each episode of the saga, will still be in charge.
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