Who Will Play The Villain Of Star Wars VII?

Adam Driver was one of the more surprising casting choices that “Star Wars: Episode VII” had up its sleeve, and that’s meant in a good way.

While the actor broke into the spotlight with his role on the HBO show “Girls,” Driver managed to secure parts in films like “Lincoln,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” and “This Is Where I Leave You” – all of which have kept him in the Hollywood conversation.

With his sweet gig playing a character in the long-awaited J.J. Abrams-directed sequel; we still don’t know who Driver will turn out to be in the galaxy far, far away. But we just got a massive clue.

Joel Edgerton, at least according to MTV News, isn’t as in the dark as the rest of us apparently, as he’s commented on working with the knowledge of Adam Driver’s top secret role in “Star Wars: Episode VII.”

Edgerton explains: “Adam Driver and I worked together on this Jeff Nichols movie last year. Literally, he got cast, and then I heard he was going to playing new whatever version of the villain in the new ‘Star Wars’ movie. The next day I had to do a scene with him after I read this. I said ‘I’m scared to do this scene with you now because you might force choke me.’”

It was previously reported on the villain of “Star Wars: Episode VII” being anything from an evil X-Wing pilot to a descendant of Count Dooku, and Adam Driver has been on and off confirmed and denied as one of the villains of the piece.

After what Joel Edgerton just said though, the wheels are turning again as to who Adam Driver is actually playing in his villainous debut.

Parsing out the Edgerton statement, there are two big pieces that stuck out like red lightsabers: the fact that he’s playing “whatever version” of a villain, and that he was afraid that he’d be Force choked by Driver. Sounds like a lot of fun referencing, doesn’t it?

For now, though, it seems that all we can really lock in at this point is that Adam Driver is a villain in the new Star Wars movie. Which villain, who his main target is, and even who he might be related to in the original canon is all a mystery.

“Star Wars: Episode VII” hits theaters on December 18th, 2015.