Simon Pegg is Unkar the junk dealer

Another Star Wars: The Force Awakens character is named as we reveal Simon Pegg is Unkar Plutt the junk dealer from Jakku.

From the early days we’ve known Simon Pegg would play a cameo role in The Force Awakens. Speculation was rife as to who the life long Star Wars fan would play and this only increased when pictures found their way out of Pegg in some form of costume that pretty much confirmed he would be playing some sort of alien being. In one interview he even went as far as saying the alien he played is “rather troll-like.. an angry-looking oaf [witha] huge downturned nose.”

 Then several weeks ago the Disney Channel released a short TV feature with an image of JJ Abrams and Daisy Ridley talking to an alien creature with a down turned nose and looking quite troll like. Suddenly everyone put two and two together, it looks likely this is who Pegg plays in TFA.

 Compare the suit Pegg is wearing in the first picture and the second photo and it certainly looks like it could well be his character (just without the shoulder armour). But still we didn’t know who this character was. Everyone assumed he would be a background character with no real role in the storyline.

Well now we know Pegg will play Unkar the junk dealer. Over the weekend Amazon Canada accidentally let a new Star Wars figure called Unkar Plutt slip on to their site. While it was quickly removed, a picture still found its way to Rule of Two.

This is quite clearly the toy of the character Daisy and JJ are talking to, who we believe Pegg is playing. We know he is a junk dealer (which seems to be a big commodity on a planet with nothing but sand and crashed Star Destroyers.) From the fact we know he has 'thugs' it can also be assumed he's not the nicest of chaps on the lawless desert planet of Jakku. So it looks like Pegg might have landed himself a little more than a bit part.

Unkar will definitely not be one of the key players in The Force Awakens, however expect him to appear in several scenes as the stage is set on Jakku.

Of course a much harder task will be identifying which Stormtrooper Daniel Craig is. When asked about his role Pegg let slip 007 is lending his services to the First Order in TFA. The filming of Episode VII and Spectre did over lap at Pinewood and it’s not out of the question. Of course it could just be a red herring by Simon Pegg to keep us guessing, Craig has certainly denied it.

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