'Star Wars 7' News, Benedict Cumberbatch Casting Spoilers [VIDEO]: JJ Abrams Brings 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Villain Over to the Dark Side for 2015's 'Episode VII'?
Benedict Cumberbatch, who terrified millions of audience members in Star Trek Into Darkness, is rumored to be joining up with director J.J. Abrams once again for 2015's Star Wars: Episode VII. Do you think Cumberbatch will be a sith lord or a jedi in the upcoming franchise reboot? Do you even think the rumor is true?
The movie news website Film Chronicles was the first to break this story, thus starting the rumors. Unfortunately the website does not give any more details except to say that Cumberbatch is rumored to be in talks for a role.
But an interview held back in May to promote Star Trek Into Darkness shows that Benedict definitely wants a role in the 2015 film.
"I've already asked [J.J. Abrams] if I can be a lightsaber and we're in talks - about whirring sounds and the rates for the lights and everything," Cumberbatch joked.
He added: "I was much more connected to [Star Wars] as a kid, in the way that a lot of kids are because it's immediate storytelling, very simple - a beautifully, outrageously simple narrative in a way - and a wonderful three-act melodrama, opera. And I loved them. I really, really loved those films and I always wanted to be Han Solo ... I was an out-and-out kid running around with a lightsaber wanting to fly the Millennium Falcon ..."
Mstars recently reported on other casting rumors. Here is an excerpt from our latest casting coverage article for Star Wars: Episode VII:
"Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike, I Am Number Four, Lee Daniel's The Butler) and Rachel Hurd-Wood (Peter Pan, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Soloman Kane) are the latest young actors rumored to be up for roles in J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII. Pettyfur and Hurd-Wood join a long list of rumored stars (including Zac Efron, Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling), but they have a slight advantage over the other, bigger names: they are less known, which projects like this usually go for."