“Star Wars: Episode VII” was reportedly caught filming in a cold-weather climate, possibly hinting at a return to Hoth.
Yahoo! Movies reports former James Bond actor Roger Moore recently visited the “Star Wars” set. Moore, who starred in “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977), signed a non-disclosure before touring the set, just like filmmaker Kevin Smith before him.
“They were filming something with a lot of mountains and snow,” Moore told Graham Norton’s radio show. “But I was signed to secrecy.”
Rumors of the production scouting a location surfaced back in March. CinemaBlend reported the “Star Wars” crew was allegedly eyeing Iceland for the scenes. However, production has confirmed any filming locations outside of London and Abu Dhabi.
Speaking of set visitors, Smith was the first one to publically acknowledge what he saw when he toured the “Star Wars” production. Smith shared his experience while speaking to a Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival crowd in Switzerland back in July.
"[Abrams] had sent me an email out of the blue while they were shooting in Abu Dhabi last month," Smith told the festival crowd. "So we go to the set and they're actually shooting, and they're shooting -- and this is what I can't tell you what they were shooting -- But what I saw I absolutely loved," he said. "It was tactile, it wasn't a series of f---ing green and blue screens in which later on digital characters would be added. It was there it was happening.
"I saw uniforms, I saw artillery that I haven't seen since I was a kid," Smith continued. "I saw them shooting an actual sequence in a set that is real -- I walked across the set, there were explosions -- and it looked like a shot right out of an f--ing Star Wars movie."
“Star Wars: Episode VII” will be released in theaters on Dec. 18, 2015.
