UPDATE 3! Star Wars: Episode VIII Filming Facing some Weather Problems in Dubrovnik. More Photos and Video from the Set.
On the 6th day of filming in Dubrovnik, Rian Johnson and his crew are facing the first minor set back in their production schedule. Strong winds delayed the start of today’s filming.
POTENTIAL SPOILERS!
Due to strong winds the Dubrovnik Harbor was closed this morning, preventing the Episode VIII team to sail and film a scene on the ship that we’ve seen earlier this week. After all the ship did leave the Harbor with a serious delay and offered another curious look at the extras and creatures on board.
Here’s another cool looking creature:
And what is this thing above the camera?
Filming is expected to end on March 16. We hope there won’t be any delays due to the bad weather.
Thanks to StarWarsDubrovik for spotting the report at Zagreb.info.
UPDATE!
And here are some more photos from the set via DailyMail, confirming the speeder chase:
Now that’s a big clapperboard!
For the full gallery go to DailyMail
And a few more from TMZ:
UPDATE 2!
Starwarsdubrovnik.com found even more interesting photos of a new location in Dubrovnik.
One of the smaller streets we already reported on as one of the locations has gotten some new lights. The alley is minimally re-done for the filming with some lighting fixtures and electrical installations on the walls, so it might end up appearing in the movie in its original shape.
Local fans are scouting the area. Check out their facebook page.
UPDATE 3!
Filming on the the main street looks dangerous. The camera car flies just inches away from the extras (via StarWarsDubrovnik):
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On the sixth day of filming the weather gave to me: Strong bullshit winds! A space creature, a stunt “explosion”, strange cult weirdos, and a Rian Johnson for me!!!!!
Sing using “the twelve days of Christmas”.
Sorry.
Today looks like a good opportunity to film some scenes on Kamino.
was thinking the same thing!
LOL!
maybe………Kylo Ren did mention in TFA that Snoke was considering making a clone army. And the Kamioans are cloners. So Kamino would be an interesting place to revisit.
I meant that as a joke, but now that you mention it, it would be interesting to see like an air battle or something over a Kaminoan cloning facility.
Great, now we have the crashing waves for the background we just have to get 3PO into the Bowie outfit and are good to go.
We know Major Tom’s a junkie.
I knew that reminded me of something.
Floating cantina scene. This planet appears very bourgeoisie.
Yea. I really don’t like it, the tables, the black classic costumes… I don’t know what to expect from this boat party scene. It’s like Eyes wide shut meets Star Wars and aliens.
Hope in the film will look great..
The Croatian filming scenes are a total mind-fuck. I need to see the trailer… immediately.
It’s something like the theater scene in Revenge of the Sith… but much more eastern europe!
At least it’s original.
I will not deny it. 😉
I really don’t mind if its well executed.
Star Wars, Rian Johnson, good script. Probably will be good :p
The set of rumors speculating the location and reason for being targeted Chandrill or Corellia and a memorial for Han Solo. Given the number of character that are dressed like dignitaries, I suspect is a memorial for those killed in the destruction of Hosnian Prime and/or the first gathering to restart the New Republic.
They are filming a Star Wars ‘casino’ scene at Pinewood.
You can’t be Star Wars and NOT have weather issues. That’s been a tradition since the filming of episode IV.
I would never want to have a drink from the guy in the last pic.
“Better get a BUCKET, I’m goin’ to FROW UP.”
And now a wafer thin mint.
Really weird looks, even for star wars. Not crazy about it at first glance, but I welcome change so hopefully this turns out to be part of an awesome sequence in episode 8
That is one ugly son of a bitch.
Hey! We don’t need to bring your grandfather into this.
JK
Could Serenno have cities like this?
Looks like there’s an opera on – The tragedy of Plagueis the Wise?
is it just me or does the attire seem to be a little to Earthly?
Luke wore Levi jeans in a New Hope.
really, I missed that. Will definitely have to go back and find it.
They were white Levis only reason i know is they were trying to auction them off a couple of years ago.
Thanks, never heard that before. Pretty cool stuff!
So Han Solo’s “space attire” was attributed to him wearing a vest when it was out of fashion?
Did I miss Han in the pictures that my comment referenced?
Oh. Did you forget? Han Solo is ALSO a character in the Star Wars Universe who wears clothing that has a relatively earthy vibe to them since they are in no way outlandish, futuristic, or what one would consider completely out of place if you encountered someone in a beige/gray button down shirt, black slacks and vest/jacket on the street.
So in reference to other characters in the Star Wars trilogy who look “a little too Earthly” I posited you a question. What makes Han acceptable, but not what you see in the photos too Earthly?
Your question insinuates you are comparing the above costumes to those in either already published trilogy. So yes, in fact you were referencing Han, Leia, Luke and everyone else to make your point.
Your answer?
Simple. I referred to the above photos and those in them. Nothing else.
Once again you’re just looking to argue over something simple and trying to read into my comments intent.
End of story.
So you think the costumes look too earthly, but in comparison to nothing else?
Calm down. And btw, it seems that they can look “too earthly” but not in comparison to anything. Doesn’t really make sense.
I’m very calm….your buddy is the one wanting to argue as always. I didn’t even bash anything this time…
Why do I feel like this could be a Dracula movie?
Lol, where the heck are they going with this? How are the opera men important enough to be in the speeder?
Maybe they are getting out of it before a main character jumps in and steals it, taking it on a wild chase and crashing it.
That’s the only thing that would make sense to me.
I love that it’s weird. After all the complaints of the sameness from TFA folks should be ecstatic that Rian is changing things up. There were no scenes like this in Empire so this should silence the haters (or perhaps create a new breed?) in any case SW has always been known for its weird and wacky extras so this could be continuing that vein as well
This is looking pretty ridiculous. I’m actually kinda worried about the next two movies. Really just crossing my fingers about episode VIII that the dialogue isn’t laughable and most of all that Joseph Gordon Levitt does make an appearance.
Gambling guild? Could be hurts!
The rough weather looks like production value!
Man, he’s been slow lately.
You know, the real disaster that hit Star Wars was letting Abrams make the first movie in the new trilogy. It set the wrong tone for everything. He’s just not a very good Director, he only reboots franchises. That’s it. Where’s the originality?
No where. Can’t find it.
So a little bad weather won’t deter Rian Johnson from making the greatest Star Wars movie since Looper.
This is not the greatest Troll in the world.
This is a tribute. (You know who you are)
/AI
JJ did a amazing job. Rian so far only made awful movies…
That was such a good impression that it was scary, lol.
Did you read what he posted about an hour later above?
So awesome and fun.
looks dope
We get a handful of photo’s, mainly showing extras and “out of context” sets and action sequences in what appears to be a new planet, and people are ready to call the film a failure. Wow! If all we were shown were a bunch of Storm Troopers in a desert, there would be complaints of, “here we go again… same ol’ rehashed crap!”. This saga just can’t win!
People need to relax. There will be plenty of scenes on board Star Destroyers, in X-Wings, on the Falcon, at the Resistance Base, fire fights with Storm Troopers, and a light saber duel.
These pics probably take up less then 10 minutes of the entire movie!
So much win in this post.
IMO I feel we will see a lot of new things in this movie. Yes, there will be familiar elements (stormtroopers, some ships, etc) but I feel that there will be a lot of new elements, enough for there to not feel like it’s a rehash (unless the plot itself feels that way but I doubt that’ll be the case as well).
I think the tone is going to be darker, the pace slower, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we get just a smidgen more discussion on the political situation that seemed a bit unclear and was glossed in the movie version.
But I doubt politics will be a focus, as Rian will move the story of Rey and Kylo’s character arcs along quite nicely, I am sure. TFA was fun, fast paced and full of nostalgic moments, that won’t be able to be duplicated in Ep.8, so it is safe to say after JJ’s set-up, we are going to get to the meat of the new story, and I can’t wait!
You’re right!
Most of the people who keep complaining here say that the biggest problem with TFA was it’s unoriginality, and now we see something that looks completely new to the Star Wars universe they just keep complaining…
Anyway, I think we saw almost nothing yet, and what we saw will be comlpetely different in the final version of the movie (you know CGI…)
Agree with your post. But there was no need to use a naughty three letter word.
What? CGI?
Potty mouth 😀
Looks very Doctor Who. The look would fit perfectly in that series.
I like the Asian Dracula guy! And the bald alien with all the teeth!
that guy looks exactly like my brother-in-law when he dressed as dracula last year
Already this film has proven to my favorite in the new trilogy from a design aesthetic. Shows what a literal world of difference it makes when you change writers/directors which was just as true with Empire/Jedi. If Lucas only stepped aside for II and III, We probably would have gotten something a lot more memorable.
Hey Snark. I already made this post for you. Sorry to beat you to it. Just scroll down.
Sorry to disappoint you but this film looks pretty cool visually. Even if they copied TFA’s aesthetic, Johnson’s yet to make a bad film and even I liked all the shows he directed too. Maybe it won’t be as successful as VII due to the law of diminishing returns but more Luke, original aliens/creatures, fleshed out characters, and weirdness all sounds pretty exciting to me.
No, you missed my point.
I posted exactly what you said already, because I anticipated it. And the same people are doing the creatures in this film, that did the last. It’s not like Abrams hand sculpted everything bro.
You have a handful of pictures from one scene in a 2+ hour movie and you’re already declaring the film superior to VII and singing Johnson’s praises. It’d be funny if it weren’t so darn sad.
A lot of people said that about Episode I. And stop being so crawly bum lick.
Lets hope its rather Empire than Jedi.
Amen to that. I’m willing to settle for Sith at this point.
Bad weather on a Star Wars set? Seems like a good omen to me. 😉
I’m loving the vibe these pictures bring, a mixture of classic and new, plus clearly not a rehash of TESB. JJ could of done so much better with the story of TFA, but what is done is done, time to move onto VIII.
Johnson never fails. He’s the real deal and will probably be the Kershner of the ST.
He’s never failed. And he’s made three whole movies, two of which most people have never heard of.
Even Looper isn’t exactly at the forefront of cinemaphile conversation.
Are you still waiting for everyone to decide they didn’t like VII as you predicted back in December?
Or are you just skipping ahead to VIII will be a better movie and if I praise Johnson as much as possible now, it’ll make it look like I called the next movie being awesome ahead of everyone else?
Even though everyone already thinks it will be awesome having enjoyed Episode VII.
Time will tell. I sure am hoping it’s “Empire” good and not a reboot of ESB. We sure don’t need another reboot after the last mess that was made! Johnson, sure has his work cut out to clean up the mess.
All 2+ billion dollars of it.
Money doesn’t make it a great movie…as stated before, 7 would have done this kind of money regardless.
Then why didn’t Episode I? Which was far more anticipated because we didn’t have the bad taste of the prequels in our mouth already?
Opinion.
I think Episode VII is a mess and Rian Johnson has his work cut out for him to make a movie that I’m going to enjoy because I didn’t care for Abrams film at all.
Stating (Or in this case making up) a fact.
This movie is a mess! Rian Johnson has a mess to clean up after! Because that last movie was a mess!
Really crappy movies don’t make 2+ billion dollars. Unless your Transformers. Then you’re the Donald Trump of the movie industry.
Episode 1 made mad money for the day, and by bringing back the big “3”….7 would have made mad money regardless.
I never stated as fact, but many people are coming around that 7 wasn’t as good as their first impression. But, that’ll always be opinion.
And by using Transformers, you made my case for me. Although personally, I didn’t care for Avatar too much either.
Really?
Many people are coming around that 7 wasn’t as good as their first impression.
Who are these many people, and where are they?
Admittedly, many millions love it. But there are a growing number of people that I’ve spoken with that have changed their position on it.
I do believe as time passes, along with the hype…that it won’t be viewed nearly as favorable as it is now.
I liked it less the first 2 times I saw it than I do now. Went to see it in theatre for the final time last night and walked out feeling completely entertained and that TFA is among the better SW films. Most importantly, my kids love TFA, and that’s what it’s all about.
nothing wrong with that, and you are correct! That is certainly what it is all about. I personally dislike it for my own selfish reasons and just think they really could have given us a great movie, instead of a safe movie.
“Really crappy movies don’t make $2b…unless they do.” You MAY need to put a little more thought into your theory before the public is ready for it.
I gave the exception to the rule. Unless you’d like to argue it as well?
I’m betting it will be next to TFA. Even if I hated SW, I’d be interested just due to Johnson’s involvement as unlike Abrams he has range in terms of writing/directing and can come up with his own ideas hence why all his films are so different from one another.
Also unlike him, I can easily see him winning an Oscar for both writing an directing someday. He clearly has the most talent of anyone in charge of a SW fiom since Kershner that’s for him. He’s not someone in it only for the $$$.
Abrams was only in it for the money?
Deepest apolgies. “Not for a lot money, A SHIT load of money”.
It really shows in the amount of effort and care he put into the film.
Mel Brooks with Spaceballs? Agreed completely! Shame he’ll probably be dead before he does the sequel which ironically is “The Quest For More Money”.
No it isn’t. Despite the rose coloured glasses of nostalgia, Spaceballs is objectively a bad film.
Not compared with Meet The Spartans or every Scary Movie film ever made.
Ah, but then you’re asking to make a subjective comparison – I said it’s OBJECTIVELY a bad film. Why not just compare it to a literal steaming pile of runny dog shit then?
Then I’d compare it to the Han Solo film. Have you seen the three actors they narrowed it down to? Should be an entertaining comment section when they post about it on here to say the least.
A New Hope!!!! Lol
A Newer Hope. ; )
Johnson’s work on Breaking Bad was masterful. But I’m under the assumption that these new films are being made and signed off by a Disney Committee. Jar Jar Abrams was just the brush. But ,I still have hope and faith that even under the corporate gaze of the Disney cabal , Johnson could give Us something wonderful.
That is true. Good big studio films can happen and I’d prefer his watered down version over Jar Jar’s pure one anyday. Empire was also made on Lucas’s watch even though he had final say on everything and it didn’t hurt that film.
Agreed,I would add that it made Empire better. But You hit the nail on the head. Lucas was still the artist,and took the final responsibility.It was his work. The advantage that Disney have is they can pass the responsibility down to the Director they commissioned if it’s a mess.
That or the story group. The films are literally made by a comittee now which seems to be a popular method today. The age of the auteur is drawing to an end wihigh budget films.
The last mess. A mess that made $2 billion and got 93% on RT. But whatever.
with this amount of hype and money behind it, how can you expect it to perform differently than that?
sure it was a smash hit blockbuster. but a SW film? one of the worst.
You’re allowed to have an opinion, but don’t act as if it’s the consensus. That’s why I put the RT score; most people liked the movie.
exactly. Johnson’s involvement is pretty much the most exciting thing about ST for me
He’s never really done a blockbuster before either so he’s not one to get trapped into all the run of the mill cliches and easy solutions. A lot of great films were made by directors only used to smaller budgets like him.
https://youtu.be/_qk3dESfyfg
https://youtu.be/aU4n0JVaLqw
https://youtu.be/RWGhsjtF6IA
AHH! wtf is that? Lol these set pics are amazing I can’t wait for this movie!!
The Cryptkeeper on acid. I’ve yet to see one lazy design among the aliens in this one. Hope the EU gives them cool backstories. Sharp suit too!
It’s because JJ wasn’t there doing the modeling himself. Good thing, huh!
‘Cuz every girl’s crazy about a sharp dressed man… 😉
Love the gold medallion! Looks like he’s heading to a disco in 1979! lol
Some people are reading too much into the outfits IMO. Wasn’t it said that they’re dressed up to hide their costumes? Look cool to me though and I’m all for a fresh look and Rian’s take on the Star Wars universe
It has Harry Potter feel
It felt more like The Hunger Games to me.
That’s what I was thinking.
looks like james bond
I think that speeder needs 1.21 gigawatts to hit 88 miles per hour!!!
alright doc brown
If it hovers on the air, it uses energy more effectively, as somekind of maglev.
Finn and Kelly Marie Tran on the horse:
http://i0.wp.com/makingstarwars.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SPACE-HORSE-2000.jpg
Looks like Yoda had sex with horse,LOVE IT
Hahaha! Exactly what I was thinking about that thing!
He was lonely on Dagobah,he has his own needs 😉
He had one very tall stool.
Or just one HELL of a schwanzstucker. WOOF!
WTF is a “Schwanzstucker”? Is that like a thing that British people say?
(TWEEEEEEET) YOU! OUT OF THE POOL! YES, YOU! AND DON’T COME BACK UNTIL YOU’VE WATCHED YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lV7YSPvKZA
Could she be Rey?
I am not saying she is not Kelly Marie… but in that picture I could not say.
Some good shots
http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/St-06.jpg
http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/2015/12/2_2.jpg
Haha Yeeeesssss!! finally
Oh, God! Oh, Jesus Christ! Oh, my God! Christ! No, no, dear God! No, Christ!
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(with apologies to The Wickerman)
Why can’t we see Grandad’s hands?!
PS: I hope they animate his face in post, because tbh, it looks like a shitty muppet at the moment.
Worth noting, and we don’t know what is being done in post or the development process, the film stock used for VII and the same for VIII I believe is a 500T grain film, I forget which one. Which means reading this slate, this shot is underexposed on purpose. I believe a full stop. This is fairly common and I think JJ may have done the same thing in VII. I mention because just because the photos taken here show a particular look, does not mean it will look the same when viewed in the cinema. This is an underexposed night scene, so a lot of details on the walls, etc.. will not look the same.
oh shit i don’t know anything about the means of shooting film, but I just love these geeky tidbits, THANK YOU
Is like the Oscar ceremony in Lothal, or something like that…
I though in the opera… :))
the frames per second is 48fps which means they’re filming slow mo
Ahhhhhh Yeahhhh….
i love the fact they are not going for the completely crazy secrecy that TFA did, in the end it wasn’t worth it
I think Dubrovnik has gone out of their hands… It is difficult to avoid people when you film in a city where they work/live.
I would not expect more leaks.
Everything in these photos looks hilarious. Who knows, hopefully it doesn’t end up looking ridiculous in the final product.
I adore TFA but one of my biggest criticisms is that it felt relatively safe. I think we can already tell that we will not have the same criticism of VIII. These pictures prove that if nothing else this movie will be absolutely bonkers.
Yes, there will always be new criticisms I’m sure, some people are just never happy.
Oh, definitely. I don’t remember the scene in Episode 5 when the space horse chases the blue speeder and crashed into the weird opera people. So that’s a good sign.
From the outside this stuff seems more Trek than Wars but I’m sure in context it will be great
You’re right – I don’t recall any second episodes of SW with crazy-ass speeder chases through busy cities.
With space horses and Hunger Games people.
Cause you know movies don’t keep having car chases, buggie chases, etc in them. Why can’t we think of anything new…. smh
XD— POSSIBLE SPOILERS CONJETURE —XD
So all the doors street seems to be for chasing, people riding some animal and someone in a speeder… may be?
The people desguise look more coming out the opera than a funeral 😉
Lol I said the same thing!
cause Darth Plaguies?
Asian Count Dracula?
1. Those people look like downed down versions of Capitol citizens from The Hunger Games.
2. They ALSO look they just got back from the opera.
3. And also, Count Dracura looks pretty cool.
Count Dracura….that just killed me! I’ll be laughing all day!
Good. You need to smile more.
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Looks like Rian Johnson indeed is a prequel fan. YAY!
I’m hoping there’s some of the prequel feel to the movie, some of that ambience. I’m just wondering what makes you say that?
To me everything soo far look very much like prequels visually.
And I like that. I’am tired of OT look.
me too
hopefully he throws in Darth Plaguies and some planets from the prequels.
yeah I’m hoping too
Alien mafia confirmed 😛
I’m not convinced of the people’s clothes though…
yeah it looks like something from james bond.
no, it looks like a harry potter/star trek crossover
Oh yeah cause your point of view is completely valid. Why dont you just comment “hey everyone, everything I say is correct whether you agree with it on not”
The hell? if you say so, in that case you were saying before that “it looks like james bond” means that to you anything you say is correct. You’re seriously criticising a comment were I say how does the thing look to me (with an unserious tone)? Seriously, If I must be honest, it looks to me more what I meant than a James Bond film. And I replicated to your comment using the same words (“looks like”) that you did. So… ultimately what’s the point of judging my attitude based on a half-ironic comment made by 10 words?
Your comment makes no sense. I just made a statement that it looked James Bondish and you were like “ugh no it looks like harry potter, ugh”. You sound like you’re 10, get off the internet.
I literally said “No, it looks like a harry potter/star trek crossover”. If I wanted to sound an asshooe I would’ve added an “ugh”, but if you read what I wrote, there is no “ugh”. So either you overreacted or misunderstood my comment, or simply sound like you’re 10 yourself. To be precise I’m 17, and I don’t believe the comment of someone who overreacts to comments and actually starts a really dumb discussion will make me decide to get off internet. Also because I need to see what’s new about star wars.
Your comment still makes no sense. I added the “ugh” to show how immature you sounded.
You just keep pretending something that isn’t real! It’s not that because you misunderstood my comments that’s absolute truth. Now, I have more clever ways to spend my time than reacting to the provocations of an anonimous commenter that can’t read between the lines of a comment.
ok fine. But you could have said somthing like “more like harry potter/star trek crossover” you did not have to put no. Just saying.
ah just stop. You do realise ypu’re complaining about a really stupid thing? When I did the comment I was in a hurry and wrote a quick answer. Now let’s end it here.
you were in a hurry so you put no? you could have just but what I just said. Accept that you were rude. There NOW lets end it here.
Please do me the favor to shut up. I don’t really see the point of this crap.
stop replying and accept that you were rude. Geez
*Jeez.
lol you’re funny.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jeez
funny to see you changing the subject because you cant admit you were a brat. Typical.
This movie visually looks alot like Star Wars prequels.
I like it. Prequels looked breathtaking.
I’am glad that we will not get another rehash like with TFA.
Based on….? I’m saying the same damn thing I did in the lead up to TFA – it may be great, it may be awful, it may be a very generic piece of entertainment brand product. Until the thing hits theaters, anyone declaring ANYTHING about this movie has no credibility.
And if Episode VIII is terrible we’ll blame you.
So a prequel rehash is okay, but not an ANH rehash? Talk about a double standard.
Isn’t taking these pictures and videos illegal?