Homemade British R2-D2 Is Star Wars Episode VII’s First Star

Lucasfilm may not have announced any human actors for the upcoming Star Wars sequel, but it has officially confirmed the movie’s first star: everyone’s favorite astromech, R2-D2

If you’re expecting the old-style in-house Artoo as seen in Episodes I through VI, however, then this isn’t the droid you’re looking for. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy hired two British amateur Artoo builders, Lee Towersey and Oliver Steeples, to construct the next generation on-screen version of the monocular trashcan

Towersey and Steeples are both members of the Artoo Builder’s Club, an international collective of more than 7,000 droid makers. The number of Artoo Builders that have actually finished a screen-accurate aluminum droid, however, is likely in the hundreds Read more…

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