The cast for the eighth episode of Star Wars has been announced, but the question on everybody lips in Dubrovnik is who will be filming here.
Dubrovnik will be used as a location for the eighth episode of Star Wars with filming beginning on the 9th of March and continuing until the 16th of March. The locations are already known with five locations around the historic Old City of Dubrovnik as well as the Banje Beach just outside the city walls.
So we know the dates and the locations, the missing piece in the Dubrovnik Star Wars jigsaw is which actors will come to Dubrovnik. Shooting began in London on Monday of this week and Mark Hamill, or Luke Skywalker, has already been spotted at Heathrow Airport. According to official information the cast for the eighth episode will be very similar to the seventh episode, The Force Awakens, with a few minor additions.
Episode VIII is written and directed by Rian Johnson, and his cast features Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson and Andy Serkis and a new member Oscar-winner Benicio Del Toro.
The eighth episode of Star Wars will hit cinemas on the 15th of December 2017.