2/8/2024 0 Comments Star wars planet sceneryDevotees of TV’s Game Of Thrones might recognise the landscape as the territory north of ‘The Wall’.Īs with the Death Star, the Starkiller’s weakness must be exploited and the terrifying weapon neutralised by the plucky underdogs of the Resistance (I don’t think the outcome requires a spoiler alert). The snowy mountainous landscapes of the base were filmed in the northeast corner of Iceland, at Krafla Volcano and My'vatn Lake.Ĭraters, lava fields and caldera (a type of volcanic chamber) dot the landscape, and include the Dimmuborgir rock formations and the massive Dettifoss waterfall which have been seen as ‘Asgard’ in Thor: The Dark World and also in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. In another part of the galaxy, you can forget the puny Death Star of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope – the First Order is now perfecting an entire planet as the Starkiller Base. Part of the land is now a public park with a cycle path but, although you can clearly see three of the six huge concrete bunkers used in the film, once the missile silos, they’re securely fenced off. The runway, once the longest in Europe, was broken up and used in the Newbury bypass. In 1997, after the base closed, a group of businessman bought the land from the Ministry of Defence, formed the Greenham Common Community Trust and transferred 750 acres to the council. The Resistance Base, to which everyone returns, where Finn is reunited with the presumed-dead Dameron, and C-3P0 with the sleep-mode R2-D2, is the old RAF base at Greenham Common on the A339 south of Newbury in Berkshire – this time, those looming mountains were digitally added.īuilt in 1942, the air base was used by British and American planes during WWII and the Cold War, but for anyone over the age of 30 in the UK, the words Greenham Common conjure up the Women's Peace Camps which grew up outside the perimeter fence in the early Eighties as a protest against the use of cruise missiles on UK soil. The Resistance fighters arrive to save the day, headed by General Leia Organa ( Carrie Fisher) and C-3P0 ( Anthony Daniels) – barely recognisable with his new red arm. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens: the planet 'Takodana': Lake Windermere, Lake District, Cumbria | Photograph: Tadas Zvinklys Stormtroopers attack at the usually peaceful Derwentwater, (where the hills of the Borrowdale Fells have been digitally removed), while the X-wing fighters of the Resistance arrive over Thirlmere, to the south. They’re inevitably spotted and when Kylo Ren sends forces to re-capture the map, the fight is on. Here, Rey is mysteriously drawn to the old light sabre that once belonged to Luke Skywalker. The lakes and the shoreline of ‘Takodana’ are just south of Keswick, in Cumbria’s beautiful Lake District. “I didn’t know there was so much green in the whole galaxy!” exclaims Rey as two outstandingly beautiful UK locations replace the barren sands of Abu Dhabi. It’s on 'Jakku' too that Finn ( John Boyega) deserts the ranks of the Stormtroopers after witnessing a massacre and hooks up with scavenger Rey ( Daisy Ridley), who lives by trading recycled junk for food.Īlong with BB-8, the spherical droid who’s carrying a vital section of the sought-after map, Rey and Finn commandeer the rusting, near-abandoned Millennium Falcon, unwittingly finding themselves alongside Han Solo ( Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca ( Peter Mayhew) and heading to the lush green planet of 'Takodana' for help from Maz Kanata ( Lupita Nyong’o) at her multi-cultural, multi-species cantina. Fast And Furious 7, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and even rival franchise Star Trek Beyond also seem to have found the offer irresistible. And it’s no longer Tunisia but the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert, near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, thanks perhaps to 30% rebates provided by the government to encourage film production. No, that desert planet isn’t Tatooine, it’s Jakku. Luke Skywalker has vanished, the First Order has replaced the Empire and the Resistance is once again striking back.ĭameron Poe ( Oscar Isaac) has been given a secret map to the whereabouts of Skywalker, now the last Jedi, but the First Order is hot on its trail in the person of sinister Kylo Ren ( Adam Driver).
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