DHAKA: The original ‘Star Wars’ movie blasted its way onto screens a long time ago, in a cinema galaxy seemingly far, far away, but Han, Luke and Leia will be back soon.

On Tuesday, Disney announced the cast of the film entering production under the name ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’, after months of frenzied speculation among the sci-fi saga’s passionate fans.

Harrison Ford may no longer quite have space smuggler Han Solo’s roguish good looks, and co-star Mark Hamill will fill out Luke Skywalker’s flowing Jedi knight robes a little more thoroughly than once he did.

But fans of the saga, many of them bitterly disappointed by a series of prequels to the three-decade-old original trilogy, will welcome their return and that of Carrie Fisher’s bold Princess Leia, reports The Starts Times.

BDST: 1240 HRS, APR 30, 2014