'Star Wars: Episode 8' Leaks: Tom Hardy Cameo Revealed

Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky in 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'
Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky in 'Mad Max: Fury Road.' Facebook

Continuing the “everybody gets to be a stormtrooper” tradition begun by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Tom Hardy has joined the cast of Star Wars: Episode 8 as a stormtrooper. Daniel Craig, composer Michael Giacchino and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich all appeared as stormtroopers in The Force Awakens, so Tom Hardy is likely to be the first of many hidden stormtrooper cameos in Episode 8.

Not only did Making Star Wars confirm Tom Hardy’s cameo, but found additional leaks from the set outlining exactly what Mad Max Rockatansky gets up to while in uniform. According to Making Star Wars, Hardy’s cameo boils down to a stormtrooper recognizing Finn from the First Order academy. Unaware that he has a Resistance fugitive on his hands, they exchange pleasantries (and ass slaps), then go about their adventure.

“The stormtrooper congratulates FN-2187 on his promotion to Resistance infiltrator and spy,” Making Star Wars writes of Hardy’s lines. Rather than admitting his defection, it seems the official story inside the First Order is that Finn is still very much on the payroll.

That’s it for Tom Hardy. He gets to spank John Boyega playfully on the bottom, so it looks like a one or two joke cameo similar to Daniel Craig’s turn as “easily manipulable stormtrooper” in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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