Why You Won't Recognise Anyone In Star Wars 7

As the speculation train continues to annoy and irritate us with its lack of concrete information on Star Wars: Episode VII, Dominic Monaghan - who played drug-addled rockstar Charlie in TV's Lost - recently revealed that he's been begging his writer and director friend J.J. Abrams for a part. Unfortunately for Monaghan, Abrams seems to be moving in a different direction with regards to the casting process. And by that, we mean that he's looking to use "relative unknowns" inside of established actors. Speaking out about the matter, Monaghan said:

"We've talked a few times about it. said 'We're putting together a cast of unknowns. We want to follow the '77 New Hope cast because obviously Harrison Ford wasn't well known at that point, Mark Hamill wasn't and Carrie Fisher wasn't either. What he said was, 'We don't want to fall into that mistake of people going, 'Oh, it's that guy from that thing!' and then you're completely out of the Star Wars universe."

So whereas the likes of Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill are near enough set to return in their iconic roles as Han Solo, Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, it's looking more and more likely that the rest of the cast will be made up of people you've never seen before - people like, oh, Hayden Christensen, who was also a complete unknown before George Lucas cast him in Episode II. Joy! Not a single actor has been officially confirmed to star in the upcoming Episode VII, of course, though it's been reported that Adam Driver - best known for TV's girls - is being courted for a bad guy part. Filming is set to start on May 14th, with the old Tunisia Moisture Farm sets apparently being eyed by the production crew as a possible filming location, alongside Morocco. How exciting. Is using unknowns a good thing or a bad thing? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.