Star Wars: Episode VII... The Cast is Announced!

Despite the fact that Billy Dee Williams apparently won't be back to reprise his role as Lando Calrissian in next year's installment, it's great to see the official cast for Star Wars: Episode VII announced today. With Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker back to reprise their iconic roles from the Original Trilogy (with Mayhew, Daniels and Baker the only ones to work on the prequels as well), newcomers who will join them in the seventh live-action Star Wars movie include John Boyega (Attack the Block, FOX TV's 24: Live Another Day), Daisy Ridley (Silent Witness, Scrawl), Adam Driver (HBO's Girls, Lincoln), Oscar Isaac (Sucker Punch, The Bourne Legacy), Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Domhnall Gleeson (Dredd, 2010's True Grit) and Max von Sydow (The Exorcist, Minority Report). Today's announcement comes a few weeks before principal photography is set to officially begin on Episode VII, and on the same day that the table read (shown below) was held in London between director J.J. Abrams and the actors who will bring his vision of that Galaxy far, far away to life. December of 2015 can't come soon enough!