Star Wars Episode VII Confirmation: Production Begins in U.K. in 2014

Star Wars Episode VII

will begin filming in the United Kingdom in early 2014, J.J. Abrams said today, confirming already widely-accepted rumors that have been circulating online for a month or two, according to a report at Deadline. The director said that the overseas shoot "drives me insane" and that he would rather have filmed the movie in Los Angeles, but that the decision was made before he was involved with the film. "Most likely we are going to be moving to London at the end of the year for the Star Wars movie," the Star Trek Into Darkness director told the Produced By conference, which took place on the Fox lot--where, of course, they've just recently lost distribution of the Star Wars franchise after more than thirty years. "I think that the thing is so big and so massive to so many people that the key to moving forward is honoring but not revering what went before," the director added.