New ‘Star Wars’ Characters Revealed

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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 11:00AM EDT / Published May 04, 2015 2:21PM EDT

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The new Star Wars universe is coming together. Details of the new film have been slow to trickle out, but two new characters have been revealed in a new Vanity Fair photospread: Adam Driver as evil commander Kylo Ren and Lupita Nyong’o, who will be playing a CGI pirate named Maz Kanata. In an interview with Vanity Fair, director J.J. Abrams also revealed that Jar Jar Binks had a close brush with death in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as he considered subtly placing the creature’s bones in a desert scene. “Only three people will notice, but they’ll love it,” he said.

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New ‘Star Wars’ Characters Revealed

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