'Star Wars Episode 7' Plot to Feature 'A World You Can Touch,' Says Kevin Smith

Movie director Kevin Smith recently visited the set of "Star Wars Episode 7" and he revealed that the new film will feature "a world you can touch."

"[Abrams is] building a tactile world, a world you can touch. And he's replicating it with all the love of somebody that has the world's greatest collection of Star Wars figures," said Smith in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

He is referring to the choices that are being made by director J.J. Abrams to use real life props in the film instead the CGI that was overused in the Star Wars prequels. He elaborated on that a bit more.

"So we go to the set and they're actually shooting, and they're shooting – and this is what I can't tell you what they were shooting – But what I saw I absolutely loved," he said. "It was tactile, it wasn't a series of green and blue screens in which later on digital characters would be added. It was there happening."

The site also reported that Smith had a chance to check out the full scale Millennium Falcon.

In other Star Wars news, the cast will now be joined by Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd who will play a younger flashback version of her mother's character Princess Leia.

Director J.J. Abrams chose Lourd, an aspiring actress, due to her resemblance of her mother. Lourd will even have scenes in the film where she will sport the classic Leia-style buns, according to a report from the Daily Mail.

Lourd is the daughter of Fisher and entertainment agent Bryan Lourd.

Abrams father Gerald and father-in law James H. McGrath will also appear in the film making it even more of a family affair for the cast.