UPDATE! Is This Our First Look at The Planet Jakku from Space?
It appears that the official site dedicated to The Force Awakens is kinda interactive. If you play with your mouse a little you’re in for a surprise…
First go to the official Star Wars.com TFA page HERE. It’s the image gallery from the trailers. Now click and drag with your mouse in the top right corner, rotating the starfield until an unfamiliar looking desert planet appears.
It definitely doesn’t look like Tatooine and there appears to be a crater from some kind of impact. Possibly an impact from an asteroid caused the planet to turn to dessert? Or the scar of a superweapon fired at the Battle of Jakku? If you continue to drag you can only see small stars – this is the only planet there. Might this be Jakku? It sure looks like an easter egg of some sort, and if this is indeed Jakku then it’s a really cool way to give us our first glimpse of it outside of the teasers.
Special thanks to Cantina member Rieekan for the find.
UPDATE!
We’ve got some clarifications from Matt Martin from Lucasfilm. First he revealed that TFA page was online since November 2014:
@justinlasalata @dan_brooks @DeeGoots … pretty sure that’s been live since November.
— Matt Martin (@missingwords) June 30, 2015
Then he confirmed that the planet was added later in April.
@starwars7news @justinlasalata @dan_brooks @DeeGoots that was added in April.
— Matt Martin (@missingwords) June 30, 2015
As you remember back in April it was officially announced (at Celebration Anaheim) that the desert planet is Jakku. So I guess this pretty much confirms that this is indeed Jakku. It would be really cool if they continue to add more planets during “the journey to The Force Awakens”. This is just a guess, but what if they reveal the ice planet at SDCC? Can we expect another planet added to the starfield in 10 days time? Possibly. We just have to wait and see.
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Nice.
I don’t mean to change the subject, but is there a follow-up of the Han Solo’s wife Star Wars comic book? Or has it not been released yet?
Who cares? Has nothing to do with tfa at all whatsoever. Period.
A lot of us do so why don’t you stfu!
It turned out the guy that married them was actually Boba Fett. So, the marriage was never legal.
for real? or are you making this up?
seriously, was there a scene where Han says “Boba got us married”?
I’m in the dark when it comes to things that require “money” and “purchases”.
The next issue of the Star Wars comic will be a flashback from Obi Wan’s journal. It was due out I think next Wednesday, but the comic shop I purchase from did not have it on the list for next week (only Lando is showing) so it may be delayed a week. We won’t get anything further on any of the other story lines until issue #8 which last I saw was scheduled for end of July.
“Who cares? Has nothing to do with tfa at all whatsoever. Period.”
Neither do trolls like yourself. I’d rather hear about Han’s wife than listen to your incessant whining and moaning. Unfortunately, we’re stuck with you.
I have been circling my mouse in the right top corner? Is that what we’re supposed to do? Help please, I just want to see it work.
Weird. When I clicked on it, I got a “page does not exist” error.
Strange. I can’t click on it.
Lost a planet you have…how embarrassing…just go to the center of gravity’s pull…you’ll find it. 🙂
Liam the shades please
https://i.imgflip.com/nmnj6.jpg
Sorry Yoda I am at the center of gravity’s pull and I have to report back (I hope my holo-transmission does not FADE) the Disney TFA movie event has not started! The planet is not Jakku but is called Earth! Yes it has everything there awaiting for some disturbance IN THE FORCE! I can’t believe you are clouded by the Sith of other movies to sense this; but, the new clearance codes are 12, 18, 20 and 15 from whatever scientific data I am receiving! ECHO BASE OUT!
I have been circling my mouse in the right top corner? Is that what we’re supposed to do? Help please, I just want to see it work.
Go to the gallery, then click and drag in the top right corner of the starfield until the planet appears.
And there is no cached version?
What did you click on ? It doesn’t work or maybe I’m not following it correctly
Go here:
http://www.starwars.com/the-force-awakens/gallery
then click with the mouse in the upper right corner on the stars and drag. The whole screen will start to shift. Drag until you see the planet.
Turn me on, dead man. Turn me on, dead man. I buried Paul.
click and drag the mouse, rotating around – go right – until you find it all by its lonesome.
If you cannot find the planets in your records, then it does not exist!
I don’t think that an asteroid caused the planet to turn to dessert. It may have been a Sith magically turning the planet’s crust into chocolate, its seas into whipped cream, and its polar caps to icing. It’s more likely that the asteroid brought about desert conditions instead. one can only hope!
Strange… I thought there was only one Majin… this is bad news indeed…
seriously… referrings to the “disaster” happenned on the planet I think are just referring to the large battle occured there.
OOOH, they updated the SW site? Cool. This is getting me super excited for SDCC for a new trailer and for December! <3
that’s cool…. wish there was more out there!”!
This website freaked me out.
What is the phobia of being in an endless infinity?
Reverse-claustrophobia? anyways, I got it, the thought of being in space [or the ocean] freaks me out, as did this page at first.
Best website design ever! I feel like i’m in space.
Also, is the planet’s location a hint??
So far every planet has been a pan-down.
Tattoine, Hoth, Yavin VI, Endor [moon of], and Bespin are all more or less shown from the top [at the bottom of screen] in their first appearances.
The only SW film up to this point to have it’s beginning pan UP to the planet was ATOC, NO OTHER SW film shows the planet from below.
Except this website, which shows what we assume is Jakku [which we assume is not Tattoine] FROM BELOW.
Is this a hint?
Who knows?
No. The answer is No.
Not to freak you out, but EVERYTHING is in infinite space. It just doesn’t look or feel like it.
Yeah, except when I can’t find the remote, I can just give up and eat a cookie.
If I were in space and couldn’t find the remote, I wouldn’t know WHAT THE F#&$ TO DO!
“Reverse-claustrophobia?”
I believe the term you’re looking for is Agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces.
thanks, I will use this word with pride!
I know exactly what you mean! It’s too vast and dark! Creepy!
*Tatooine. It’s been written everywhere for 38 years. spell it right.
duly noted.
“Possibly an impact from an asteroid caused the planet to turn to dessert?”
Yummy. o<|:o)~
“That’s funny, the damage doesn’t look as bad from out here.”
This ground feels funny……doesn’t feel like sprinkles…
Yeah, an icecream ball… vanilla, yummy
“That’s no moon, it’s a scoop of choc-chip ice cream” “it’s too big to be ice cream!”
Also, what’s with the planet teasing?
First there’s that moon in the Rebels TV spot, and then there’s this planet.
[No. They are not one and the same, they are obviously two distinct planetoids. I checked.]
Is it possible the crater is the Super Star Destroyer?
Or is it some sort of Astro-Assault crater,
As in like when Vader asked the General to range-attack Hoth from OUTSIDE the planet, I always wondered what that meant, is it sort of like a Death Star Beam Jr.? that just blows up a city as opposed to a planet?
What would that look like? I’m sure it would look badass, and leave a large crater.
It just means they bombard regions of the planet with star destroyers. Orbital bombardment.
Yeah, I know, but what would it LOOK like?
Would it be like Independence Day? or just, like a microwave or something?
The big turbolasers you see being fired in the movies. Those, but focused down on organic targets.
Small yield blasters blew up trees on Endor. Imagine what the big ones would do if fired in multiple volleys. Pretty detrimental.
That might just be BB-8 with no clothes on. Hmm.
*compares starfield to opening of ANH* Yup, Tatooine!
click & drag what??? it doesn’t work. I don’t understand!
I can’t even open the website on my browser.
I feel the force is not strong in your browser
Can’t see any planet there….. I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
This has been around since the first teaser from last December. No one noticed?
You’ve seen this since December.
Well thanks for telling us!
Asteroid? More like Super Star Destroyer!!!
That’s Jakku alright. I was there last summer. We didn’t spend much time there because it was sandstorm season. Not fun.
Jakkuzzis live on Jakku, drinking Slusho mix
That’s not a moon… it’s a SPACE STATION!!!
😛
It’s too big to be a space station. It’s just a different angle of Earth’s moon as a hoax.
I didn’t realize it was possible to see a different angle of the moon, hm, I’ll ask the Chinese, maybe it looks different over there…
Doushe in the hat, from space the moon will have many angles
Here is a direct link to the image containing the planet:
http://www.starwars.com/the-force-awakens/images/home/transparent.png
We are waaaaay overdue for some real news.
if there’s no news there’s no news! what do you want them to do, make it up??
John? Shove it up your ass.
as I was expecting. The difference between Tatooine and Jakku is that the first is more rocky. that dot on jakku is simply a sandstorm, if you look at mars satelite photos thats how they look.
I think the dot is Jabba the Hutt
I hope Ja Jar is in this movie, otherwise i’m not watching it.
Jakku… the entire planet is one big junk yard.
and Lobot is the big boss (and another skywalker)
Maybe they go back to naboo and there’s a huge statue of the great Jar Jar Binks there. That would be funny.
I still believe that either Jakku = Tatooine, or they have made the dumbest design decision in film history by continuing the most beloved film trilogy of all time with a new planet that looks exactly like the old planet down to the costume and set design.
Obviously I hope it’s the first (I *did* want a Tatooine-free Episode VII, but not if Jakku is a carbon-copy of said famous binary-star-system-desert-world.)
I am with you.
I’m with you also on this. Don’t mess with our intellect with this.
I make a simple comment that there needs to be more news on this site and everyone is up in arms….. but this guy can claim that Jakku = Tatooine and people agree?
For the 5,495,698 time: Jakku and Tatooine are NOT identical. For one, I don’t seem to recalla huge battlefield crash site on TAtooine.
Whether it is or it is not Tatooine, the crash site happens in the battle of Jakku, so it’s perfectly normal is the first time you see it.
This Jakku is Tatooine discussion that seems so stupid for some people, has its roots on a concept art and production design conflict.
I don’t mind if Jakku is its own thing, why not? But if there’s no relation with Tatooine at all, it’s wrong. Putting a character like Rey (dressed like Anakin in ep. 1) in a planet like Tatooine which is not Tatooine, is wrong.
PHOTO: http://i.imgur.com/7CqU9Hs.jpg
It can happen, it’s a huge galaxy, there’s so many desert planets, Tatooine don’t have the pattent of moisture vap… ENOUGH. We are not that stupid, what we say is that is wrong from an artistic point of view. It’s a huge galaxy, exactly, and because they’re thousands and thousands of planets, you don’t go for the same design twice when it’s about the main planet of the saga introducing the protagonist in two of the trilogies. I mean, are you kidding me, Abrams? Are you really gonna introduce the trilogy with a desert scavenger in an outer rim planet with moisture vaporators and you’re gonna tell me that’s not Tatooine?
And because I think Abrams is a visual, talented director dealing with a lifetime event beside Lawrence Kasdan, only for that reason, I still believe Jakku is Tatooine.
And for those who are 100% convinced Jakku is not Tatooine, which is a great possibility, you should be upset and worried about this movie and its lack of imagination.
It’s Tatooine. This Jakku-business is just something they use to confuse and keep ppl guessing. There is no point to creating an exact duplicate planet for many reasons.
Unless I’m mistaken, I think I read that Jakku only has one sun.
Maybe the Great Ewok Extinction is true and Jakku is actually endor moon! The destruction of Death Star II laid waste to the moon. See http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html
So…it looks just like Tatooine? Wat?
” If you play with your mouse a little you’re in for a surprise…”
Am I immature or does that sound a little dirty? lol
Wasn’t there a rumor awhile back about the planet what we now know as Jakku having a massive crater(s) from a super weapon or from a past battle? This seems to help support, especially since this is on the official Star Wars website. It actually makes me worried because if little spoilers like this have gotten out then it is very probable that the big rumors we’ve heard are true, which would be pretty disappointing. Not because the movie sounds bad, just that we basically know much of the plot and twists of it already.
You people are realy high on speculation! Perhaps they just wanted to give the looks that many planets in the realword have… Meteor-scarred planets are a common thing.
oh, you all seem rather excited is there a new space wars film coming out?
If Jar-Jar is in this flick, I will walk the “F” out! I will also have my Custom Light Saber in my hand and will feel compelled to have to hit people REALLY HARD before I get to the door! …Just saying!
If you do that, I will stop you. What color lightsaber do you have? because whatever color that is, I will purchase the same color to make our duel as hard to describe as possible.
What is the point of having another desert planet, it makes no sense….can JJ come up with anything original, how about another ice planet or better still another cloud city, but not the one from EPSB. lETS FACE IT jj IS GOING TO F***k star wars up just like he did to Star Trek
Lets create another lovable droid, lets have the Milanium Falcon being chased by tie fighters and flying into the innards of a downed star destroyer without knowing if there is an escape root. Lets face it jj sucks at originality.Just what does the teaser trailer show that makes any one think this movie is going to be good besides the effects.
Wait, shit! they’re doing an opening crawl, AGAIN?!
I’m so over that, the words are always too slow when I’m paying attention, but as soon as my brother drops the doritos and asks me to help clean up, the words kick it into double-time and I can’t catch up.
Shit, if JJ is planning on doing that TOO, I will really be upset.
The PT had opening crawls if I remember, but I quite liked them. JJ’s TFA opening crawl….Once upon a time in a distant past in another star system lived a trans gender force user who needed a helping hand……
I AM ENDING THIS TRANSMISSION
Lets have the pilot of an X wing wooping with joy ????Lets have Lukes hand drifting through space with a light sabre and falling on a planet in the HANDS of people who know Luke skywalker.
OH lets have steel I beams with rivets, trans warp beaming because we dont need ships to go from planet to planet, in fact lets rewrite the entire saga my way.
I know! lets design a new different light sabre…that’s a good idea, lets go looking for Darth Vaders burnt mask..we don’t need a story with ideas like these.
Lets sack JJ, destroy this movie before any one can see it and bring back the creator George Lucas.
Lucas sold it
He wants to buy it back.
Tatooine has a lower-budget [less sun] cousin! Now they got a new droid and the millenium falcon!
This is a CODE RED. repeat, CODE RED,
summoning all to gather RPGs, automatic assault rifles and 29 legitimate cyanide pills [if legitimate cyanide pills are un-available, home-made will do provided you can verify you got the recipe from a legitimate source such as “google”, ]
Everyone converge at 245 lat. and 102 lon. and 21:12 hours [EST].
There will be nothing to stop us this time!
peace out!
I like it!
Is it possible that this is what Tatooine looks like thirty years after RotJ? Think about it. All of those Star Destroyers crashing into the planet would have kicked up some huge dust storms. It would have changed the entire planet. Maybe it was like an extinction-level event which wiped out most things on Ear—err, Tatooine. Jakku could be alien for “Destroyed planet” or something way more epic than that. xD
Just a theory. It’s probably full of crap, but it could be cool if they hinted at it without going into detail or anything. xD
Exactly. This might be the next chapter in politically correct Star Wars, i.e. global warming.
I think this is likely what it happened. That important battle could mark the very end of the empire, and as it happened in our history, Tatooine would change its name as Constantinopla did (becoming Istanbul) in the battle that marked the end of the Roman Empire that leaded to middle age (historical period in which The Force Awakens is visually inspired).
Is there going to be a “Planet of the Apes” moment? Riiight, we were on Earth all along > riiiight, “Jakku” is really Tatooine … too bad one of the suns went out!
Dude in the hat…I have 9 sabers. It doesn’t matter what color I bring! If you like Jar-Jar, I will beat it out of you! JAR-JAR SUCKS!!! I am a big fan of GL, what he created, the OT and even have a liking for the PT. I give GL credit for his creation of Star Wars. It’s my favorite movie saga ever created. I am an adult (until I have a saber in my hand) and grew up with this stuff. I have high hopes for Disney with this new trilogy they are creating. I will however repeat…JAR-JAR SUCKS!!!! So let the epic saber duel begin! I will fight for the shear fact that Jar-Jar is the worst Star Wars character that was created! (Sorry GL, We are all able to F up a little bit) If you disagree, I have already you beat! Reguardless of my saber color!!!
Actually I completely forgot about Jar Jar, I was just challenging your propensity towards hitting people.
I had a lot of fun seeing you take me seriously though. 🙂
6 months is a long time, I will bring cats.
Cats are, in my personal experience, lightsaber proof. I could get one tom-cat and two females and have 10 fully trained kittens before Dec 12,
no theater staff will get injured if I have anything to say about it.
No kidding! No Jar Jar! He better be left out of this! He does suck! Big fan of SW but often wonder why they had to bring him into it. Where are you 2 gonna be? Can I bring a saber too? Can I just bring 1 to beat up Jar Jar Binks? Horrible character!
Light sabres at the ready let the great Ewok
genocide begin, by far the worst things to appear in a Star Wars movie. In fact let the Gungans and the Ewoks go to war and obliterate one another, sounds like another JJ idea.
Jar Jar gets hit by a stick and dies.
Ewok gets plasma-ball stuck to its furry face and falls down.
MAKE THIS HAPPEN
What if Jakku is one of the moons of Tatooine?
My Pluto news stream is getting crossed with my star wars news stream!
After the Empire was defeated, the Universe, once more tried to rebuilt itself. The inhabitants of the planet Tattoine heard about the Empire trying to rebuilt itself, so fearing for its safety, given the Empires previous threats to neighbouring planets and an unhealthy fixation with blowing planets up, they decided to join the ‘GWPS’ or the Galaxy Witness Protection Scheme and thereby changed its name to Jakku. Thus totally fooling the Empire with this cunning move….
Jakku is NOT Tatooine because by now Tatooine knows not to F#%% with the caucasian lower-class, there are signs all over Tatooine saying:
If you see a young caucasian alongside an old bearded man – RUN FOR YOUR LIFE [and limbs].
Most dangerous time of the year: ALWAYS.
Tatooine is less fun if the locals get wise on what a Jedi looks like.
enter Jakku, a Tatooine stand-in that is innocent to the ways of Movie Protagonists.
This supports my theory that Tatooine will be a serious up-and-coming, “civilized” planet, I always wondered what a full-scale modern city on Tatooine would look like.
WHAAAAATT?! Space in TFA?! Inconceivable!
If there is an Ice Planet and isn’t Hoth, I will be severely disappointed. We get a second desert planet for some reason, I don’t get it. And now possibly a second ice planet? Really?
I have a feeling that the “ice planet” isn’t an ice planet. I think it’s the same world that has the X wings flying over lakes in the trailers… & possibly the same world with micheal skelling island shots.
Earth.
jj ” Hmm!.. now lets see who I can rip off and make IT seam like my own idea”… I had an ice planet in Star Trek..Hmm!
Star Wars 7 no news site,thanks JJ.
Here’s why it makes no sense to be so secretive about a movie,the vast majority of all the people who will watch Star Wars TFA will not watch it on the opening day by which time the internet will be awash with spoilers.
That’S why people put out SPOILER ALERTS,if you don’t want to read spoilers then don’t.
This is tatooine and the crater is the downed star destroyer.
As big as a star destroyer is it would not leave a crater visible or big enough to be seen at that distance.
Further more the ship is virtually intact suggesting a controlled crash landing, if it fell from space there would be literally nothing left of it, also sand storms would quickly cover the crater.If this is Tatooine then it shows that the only thin jj is good at is telling lies.
One of the star destroyers shown crashed in the trailer is a super star destroyer – they are 19 km long, and certainly could make a mark that could be seen from space. A ship that size would not likely break up on atmospheric entry to the point that there would be nothing left – it’s far too big to totally break up – and as it is upside down in the trailer, I would figure it did not make a controlled landing. Also, the trailer shows that the ship is not totally covered with sand – again, it’s too big for that, so the ship and the impact made would likely be a permanent feature of Jakku, visible from space.
Lets say Jakku is roughly the same size as Earth, then this picture is not just taken from space, but at a considerable distance,about 50 to 100 thousand miles an 11 mile long space ship would not be seen.
More over a space ship is mostly empty space it would not have the mass of a similar sized asteroid or meteor and it would break up into many pieces if it fell fom orbit.
True dat!
Guy in the hat… I had to come across as serious. It had to do with Jar-Jar! LOL! If you are with me, we can bring red light sabers. Together we can strike him down with all of our hatred, turn him into orange goo, and then our Journey towards the Darkside will be complete…together!
Jar Jar is not worth my trouble, thinking about him taxes my grey cells. I have other Star Wars stuff to watch, that and it’s no fun beating up a dead hamster.
Nah, I’ll just eat some coffee instead.
I do want to see “Ewoks vs Gungans” though, because the ewoks will win, which would be hilarious. I fully admit the Ewoks ruined ROTJ, but that is what makes them awesome. They defeated the empire and signaled the decline of the movie series they’re in, they don’t give a shit! they’re Ewoks! they don’t do nothing for nobody! they kill Storm troopers and franchises… LIKE A BOSS.
Then…there will be…peace.
Rumour has it that at least one of the little furry b%%***%s may make an appearance in TFA.
Noooooo!