Han Solo is back! Harrison Ford returns to Star Wars set as filming resumes after actor's speedy recovery from ankle injury

By Bobbie Whiteman for MailOnline

Published: 18:14 EST, 28 August 2014 | Updated: 00:24 EST, 29 August 2014


You can't keep a space smuggler-turned-action hero down.

Harrison Ford was back on the Star Wars: Episode VII set as it resumed filming at the U.K.'s Pinewood Studios, 20 miles west of central London, according to Entertainment Weekly on Thursday.

Shooting halted after the 72-year-old, who plays Han Solo in the iconic film franchise, smashed up his ankle when the hydraulic door of his spaceship, the Millennium Falcon, fell on his foot on June 12.

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Standing on his own two legs: Harrison Ford, pictured at The Expendables premiere in Los Angeles on August 11, is back on the Star Wars: Episode VII set after production halted while he recovered from a serious ankle injury sustained during filming on June 12

Standing on his own to legs: Harrison Ford, pictured at The Expendables premiere in Los Angeles on August 11, is back on the Star Wars: Episode VII set after production halted when he injured his ankle filming on June 12

Hopping along: The 72-year-old had to use a crutch while his fractured ankle healed

Hopping along: The 72-year-old had to use a crutch while his fractured ankle healed

The star was helicoptered to hospital and has been recuperating ever since.

But he seems to have made a speedy recovery, and has been spotted out frequently in Los Angeles and elsewhere without the crutch he needed to walk.

Harrison strolled along the red carpet for The Expendables 3 premiere In L.A. on August 11 and also took a video of himself doing the ALS ice bucket challenge as he stood without aid on both legs in the garden of his home in Wyoming.

Quick recovery: The star, pictured in Los Angeles last week, has been seen walking fairly normally recently

Quick recovery: The star, pictured in Los Angeles last week, has been seen walking fairly normally recently

Filming actually only went on hiatus for two weeks so that director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm could re-organise the shooting schedule to work on scenes that didn't include Harrison.

But the entire cast and crew are now back at Pinewood, sources close to the project told EW.

Photography is set to continue until mid-fall on the much anticipated movie, which has a reported budget of $200 million.

Freeze a jolly good fellow: Harrison stood unaided when he took the ALS ice bucket challenge
Freeze a jolly good fellow: Harrison stood unaided when he took the ALS ice bucket challenge

Freeze a jolly good fellow: Harrison stood unaided when he took the ALS ice bucket challenge 

It has already filmed scenes in Abu Dhabi, Iceland and Ireland.

In the new movie, set 30 years after the Return Of The Jedi, Harrison is joined by his original co-stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and  Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca with 2014 actress Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o joining the cast.

The hiatus has not changed the release date - Star Wars: Episode VII is due to open on Dec. 18, 2015.

Time shift: The actor is reprising his role as Han Solo, the part he played in the first Star Wars back in 1977

Time shift: The actor is reprising his role as Han Solo, the part he played in the first Star Wars back in 1977



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