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I always enjoy seeing other collectors’ “TK” pieces . Those pieces with a single stormtrooper, either full body or a head shot, with a great deal of signing space filled with all the various people who wore the white suit in the Original Trilogy. I personally do not collect these pieces, because they are best done on 11×14 or larger prints and I, more or less, stick to 8x10s. It occurred to me while watching The Force Awaakens that people will now be launching the next generation of these pieces. Begun the “FN” multi-signed collecting has.
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I wanted to give collectors a jump start on their pieces and did a bit of research into who actually wore the suits. This is in no way an exhaustive listing of stormtroopers. Considering there is still detective work going on and new people being found for the Original Trilogy, we have years ahead of us to unravel as many stormtrooper identies as possible from the Sequel Trilogy. There are many rumors out there, but accurate facts are integral to the autograph collecting hobby and community. Where appropriate, I have included some information from Wookieepedia which may provide clues to specific scenes for certain actors, but it is should not be considered official until we have confirmation from a Lucasfilm representative.
Costume Designer: Michael Kaplan
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FN-2187 (“Finn”): John Boyega
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FN-2199: David Acord (voice) Liang Yang (stunts)
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This announcement from Starwars.com prooved inconvenient for one actor who had laid claim on social media that he was actually wearing the suit during this specific scene. 23-year old Alex Rolt, who will forever be mentioned in the same breath as Hal Wamsley and others who falsely claimed to play part in the GFFA, has since recanted, reportedly stating on Twitter “Sorry for doing this to all the fans. Was a joke that got out of hand. My career is tarnished.” Thankfully, for fans and autograph collectors, this information came out before Rolt had a chance to make it to the autograph circuit.
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[[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_crop”,”fid”:”22146″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”id”:”media_crop_3038353610675″,”media_crop_h”:”0″,”media_crop_image_style”:”large”,”media_crop_instance”:”14606″,”media_crop_rotate”:”0″,”media_crop_scale_h”:”0″,”media_crop_scale_w”:”0″,”media_crop_w”:”0″,”media_crop_x”:”0″,”media_crop_y”:”0″,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”}}]]From Wookieepedia: “FN-3181 was a stormtrooper in the First Order during their conflict with the Resistance. He was one of sixty troopers deployed from the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Finalizer, under the command of Captain Phasma on the planet Jakku as part of an Assault on Tuanul on the village of Tuanul, where they hoped to locate part of a map leading to the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. The troopers killed or captured the residents of the village, including Lor San Tekka, whose execution by the Force-sensitive Kylo Ren prompted the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron to attack him with a blaster. Using the Force, Ren frozen both the blaster bolt and Dameron, who FN-3181 and another trooper then grabbed. The pair dragged Dameron over to Ren and threw him at the Force-user’s feet. Ren then questioned the pilot, before taking him prisoner and ordering the stormtroopers to execute all remaining villagers.[1]”
FN-9330: Nigel Godrich
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FN-2003: Unknown
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“I can confirm that I’m the trooper with the black shoulder pad that says to Kylo Ren “Sir! The droid was spotted heading west… With a girl.’ Collins explained. “Sam and I have a conversation as stormtroopers (about TC-17s) while Rey is sneaking around, and I believe Sam says that they’re splitting up.”
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Stormtroopers: “Blast that X-wing!” “Over there, over there!” — Sam Witwer and David Collins
Stormtrooper: “Keep moving!” “Stay here!” — Matthew Wood
Stormtrooper: “Nothing, Sir.” “Nothing here, go ahead!” — David Acord
Stormtrooper: “Check over there.” “Fan out!” “Copy that, 1138.” — James Arnold Taylor and Sam Witwer
Stormtrooper: “Call in the airstrike!” — Matthew Wood
Stormtrooper (radio prompts Rey to first see trooper): “FN-417, hold position.” — Matt Lanter
Stormtrooper (alerted to Rey’s position, fires from castle): “Blast ‘em!” — Matthew Wood
Stormtrooper (alerts Kylo Ren at castle): “Sir, the droid was spotted heading west, with a girl!” — David Collins
Stormtrooper (fights Finn with riot baton): “Traitor!” (fight efforts) — David Acord
Stormtrooper (apprehends Finn): “Don’t move! TK-338, we have targets in custody!” — Fred Tatasciore
Stormtrooper (reacts to incoming Resistance fighters): “We have incoming at 28.6! Move!” — Kevin Smith
Stormtroopers (getting in formation for Resistance attack): “Dispatch artillery!” “Go, go, move!” “Scramble all squads!” (x2), “Anti-air cover on lakefront position!” — Michael Donovan and Sam Witwer
Stormtrooper (running from rock wall incoming fighters): “Go, go, go!” — Sam Witwer
Stormtrooper (into comlink): “Request air support!” — Pip Anderson
Stormtrooper (interrupts Kylo Ren and Rey in forest): “Sir, Resistance fighters. We need more troops.” — Matthew Wood
Stormtrooper (gesturing a command at Kylo’s ship): “Heavy troopers.” “Pull back to tree line.” — Kat Sheridan
Stormtrooper (to Kylo Ren in corridor): “Sir, sensors triggered in hangar 718, we are searching the area.” — Verona Blue
Stormtrooper (as elevator opens, revealing Chewie): “Hey!” — Nigel Godrich
Stormtroopers (as Rey sneaks out toward ledge): “You checked out the new T-17s? The T-17s, as far as I can tell, are a great improvement. Yeah, that’s what they tell you, but believe me, they don’t hold up. They don’t? No…” — David Collins and Sam Witwer
Stormtroopers (running as group before Finn sneaks in): “We think they may be splitting up.” — Sam Witwer
Stormtroopers (running as group before Finn sneaks in): “Heading to quadrants four and five.” — Devon Libran
Stormtroopers (searching under stairs, radio voiced): “Check over there!” “This way!” “Roger that.” — Matt Lanter and James Arnold Taylor
Stormtroopers (aiming at Han Solo in Oscillator): Very distorted commands — Devon Libran and Sam Witwer
These are all the Stormtroopers either creditied in the film or otherwise officially announced by Lucasfilm. You may remember the Behind-the Scenes” trailer that was released at San Diego Comic Con this year (if you don’t you can watch it HERE.)
Verona Blue: The First Female Stormtrooper
“Sir, sensors triggered in hanger 718. We’re scanning the area.” This line was spoken by a stormtrooper to Kylo Ren during one key scene. It could have been said by any number of stormtroopers, or clone troopers for that matter, from any of the films, but one thing makes this line truly unique.
It was said by Toronto native and long standing 501st Legion member Verona Blue, making her the voice of the first female stormtrooper in Star Wars (Captian Phasma notwithstanding.) Blue was recently a guest on the 501stCast and talked about her experiences working on the film. You can hear the episode in it’s entirety (dated January 5th) HERE.
“I got a text message from Matt Wood saying would you like to do more voice work” Blue told hosts Joe Mignano and Nicky Blum. “I said ‘Yes, for what?’ and he said ‘We need a femaile stormtrooper.’ I went back in, all of this was done at Fox in Los Angeles. I was given about six pages of dialogue and recorded all of it. And it was everything from First Order offiicers, stormtroopers, stormtroopers in battle, Resistance PA announcements, First Order PA announcements, X-Wing pilots. That took about an hour and I went home and crossed my fingers that it was going to make it into the final cut. About three days after they announced they had finished the final cut of the film I got another text from Matt Wood saying that I was the first female stormtrooper.”
*Edit: Although Verona Blue provides the voice of the first female stormtrooper it should be noted that stuntwoman Tracey Eddon played a stormtrooper during the Endor scenes in Return of the Jedi.
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Daniel Craig
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Much has been reported about Daniel Craig’s secret cameo in The Force Awakens since Simon Pegg first told the The Independent “I wasn’t a Stormtrooper. Daniel Craig, he was a Stormtrooper. … I shouldn’t have said that.” in May of 2015. The Independent also quotes “an insider” who stated “Daniel asked for some sort of secret cameo role – and was happy to have his name left off the posters. Fans will love trying to work out which covered up character is him.” It would have been easy enough for Craig to make his way over to where The film was being filmed, since he was filming the Bond film Spectre at Pinewood Studios at the same time.
In an October 2015 Entertainment Weekly piece written by Chris Lee, the James Bond star made efforts to squash the notion that he was in the latest Star Wars film. ““Why would I ever bother doing something like that?” Craig told Lee. “F—ing hell! Pffft. Play an extra in another movie.”
Director J.J. Abrams told IGN in a December 18, 2015 interview “The only thing I’ll say to that is why would James Bond ever want to play a stormtrooper over God knows how many days it took to shoot that scene. That to me is sort of the obvious answer. If you’ve seen this guys day job I don’t know why he’d trade that in for the suit and the claustrophobia. And it’s very hot in there, as John Boyega will tell you again, again and again.”
The Sun quoted a source on January 2, 2016 as saying “It was just going to be a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ cameo but in the end he’s in a very memorable scene.”
The specific confirmation that Craig portayed the Stormtrooper from the “Jedi Mind Trick” scene has come from “multiple sources close to The Force Awakens who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.”
Did he portray that specific stormtrooper? More than likely. For autograph collecting purposes I would be much more confortable spending my money (or more importantly, suggesting you spend yours) hearing this confirmation from an official source, rather than based on “unnamed sources who were not authorized to speak” about which part he played.
*Edit (1/25/16) After reading Matthew Wood’s feature “From “Blast That X-wing!” to “Traitor!”: The Voices of Star Wars: The Force Awakens” I noticed that there was no mention of Daniel Craig’s stormtrooper. Wood’s feature specifically lists those actors who were listed in the credits as “Additional Voices” which did not include Craig’s name. I reached out to David Collins and Matthew Wood about that particular scene and Wood responded. “Vanity Fair and JJ confirmed that one , yep.” I am now satisfied that Craig did provide the voice of this stormtrooper.
Showmasters Spring London Film and Comic Con February 27-28, 2016
Showmasters has several signing guests billed as First Order Stormtroopers for their Spring 2016 show. You can see their full guest list HERE.
Phoenix James
Al Chimes
Sandeep Mohan
Marc Rolfe
David Santana
Samantha Alleyne
Mark Rutter
Greg Beard
Neil Bishop (Flamethrower Trooper)
Aaron Amayah (TIE Pilot)
Jonty Green
Aidie Palmer
Charlie Akin
We should all be aware that just because someone is scheduled to sign at a show does not guarantee they actually played the exact part they are billed for, or in extreme cases, were actually in the film at all. Showmasters has a very good reputation, which is why I have included these guests in this piece.
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Dante Briggins
Stuart Budd
Jamie Ben Chambers
Alan Chimes
Rimmel Daniel
Leigh Holland
Phoenix James
Billy James Machin
Raymond Mamrak
Jason Nichols-Carrer
Mark Preston
Lane Smith Jr.
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