The first shot from the set of the new Star Wars trilogy has just been tweeted by the folks at Total Film. Fairly unusual move from JJ Abrams, who generally is awful secretive about this kind of craic.
So, we've seen our first alien on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII, which is a bit exciting. https://t.co/t064cUsQwx pic.twitter.com/Ppf0HErPFZ
— Total Film (@totalfilm) May 21, 2014
UPDATED
So the above was actually part of a video that JJ Abrams made to announce a competition for a lucky Star Wars winner. All makes sense now. So it does. Kind of.