Simon Pegg has inadvertently revealed that James Bond star Daniel Craig is to cameo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a Stormtrooper.
Pegg, who has been spotted on set in Abu Dhabi visiting director JJ Abrams, who worked with Pegg on two Star Trek movies, revealed the secret at the premiere of his new film Man Up in London.
Asked to confirm a rumour that he will be making an appearance in front of the cameras in the first new film in the long-running space opera for more than a decade, Pegg responded: “I wasn’t a Stormtrooper. Daniel Craig, he was a Stormtrooper.” He then added: “I shouldn’t have said that.”
Craig, reputedly a huge Star Wars fan, has also been rumoured for some time to be making an appearance in The Force Awakens. The cameo appearance is expected to be kept a secret from audiences, since Stormtroopers’ faces are usually not seen.
The Force Awakens, which is released in December, is according to researchers currently 2015’s most highly-anticipated movie. It is also the bookmakers’ runaway favourite to be the year’s highest-grossing film.
Abrams’ debut in the Star Wars hot seat features returning alumni Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Harrison Ford (Han Solo) alongside newcomers John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Max von Sydow, Domhnall Gleeson and Andy Serkis. It will kick off a new trilogy set to climax in 2019, with studio Disney also set to release several spin-off anthology movies focusing on characters and motifs from the original triptych of films which hit cinemas between 1977 and 1983. The first is Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, which debuts in December 2016.
