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Merseyside's James Bond Daniel Craig has landed a last-minute role in the new Star Wars film, according to reports.

Craig, from Hoylake, has apparently begged JJ Abrams for a cameo role, which he is rumoured to have already filmed.

Further speculation says he will be under heavy make-up for his part in the first of a new trilogy.

Craig - who also popped up during Liverpool FC's pre-season tour to America this summer - has already starred with Han Solo, actor Harrison Ford, in the ill-fated science fiction western Cowboys and Aliens.

He will shortly be starting work on the next James Bond film, which is scheduled to come out in November 2015 and is also rumoured to see the return of Blofeld as the secret agent's nemesis.