Listen to Kevin Smith at a film festival in Neuchatel, Switzerland give details of his experience on the
Star Wars: Episode VII set in England, including stepping into the interior of the Millenium Falcon.
The guy told me they took two blueprints—Star Wars & Empire, because the cockpit in Empire—never knew this before, the cockpit in Empire was bigger than the cockpit in Star Wars. So they went somewhere between the two.
Though unable to fully talk about what he saw on the set, he has postive things to say about J.J. Ambram's Star Wars sequel, and what he's doing right in this movie which weren't done in the prequels:
As I walked up that ramp, I realized something was missing from those other movies—and it’s now in these movies. And it’s not the obvious of like “Hey! The Millennium Falcon” or “Hey! The characters that we know, who are returning” It’s—It’s something else entirely. He’s building a tactile world, a world you can touch. And he’s replicating it with all the love of somebody who has got the greatest collection of Star Wars figures.
Check out the full Q and A here, Episode VII stuff at about 35 minutes in:
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/9116901/KevinSmithMasterclass/videos/55760968