{"id":61626,"date":"2018-08-28T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T22:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=61626"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:57:30","slug":"doctor-who-star-matt-smith-joins-the-cast-of-star-wars-episode-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/doctor-who-star-matt-smith-joins-the-cast-of-star-wars-episode-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Star Matt Smith Joins the Cast of Star Wars: Episode IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to several sources, the Eleventh Doctor has been cast in a &#8220;key role&#8221; in the upcoming, and still untitled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/s\/star-wars\/t?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=product\"><em>Star Wars: Episode IX<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Smith, the Emmy-nominated star of <em>The Crown<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/s\/doctor-who\/t?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=product\"><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/a>, has joined the cast of J.J. Abrams&#8217; next installment in the Skywalker Saga, which includes some familiar faces &#8211; Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, and Mark Hamill &#8211; as well as new cast members &#8211; Keri Russell, Richard E. Grant, Naomi Ackie, and Dominic Monaghan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still unclear what Smith&#8217;s role will be. Sources told Variety, &#8220;it\u2019s unknown at this time whether the <em>Doctor Who<\/em> alum will be on the side of the rebels or the evil empire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/s\/star-wars\/t?utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=product\"><em>Episode IX<\/em><\/a> filming is currently underway in the UK and should premiere December 20, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to several sources, the Eleventh Doctor has been cast in a &#8220;key role&#8221; in the upcoming, and still untitled, Star Wars: Episode IX. Matt Smith, the Emmy-nominated star of The Crown and Doctor Who, has joined the cast of J.J. Abrams&#8217; next installment in the Skywalker Saga, which includes some familiar faces &#8211; Daisy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,390,389],"tags":[105,1052,419],"yst_prominent_words":[6388,6293,8051,6138,8060,7480,8126,5780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62588,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61626\/revisions\/62588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61626"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}