Rumor: “Han Solo” Movie To Shoot on the Canary Islands and Italy!
A new report on a Spanish cinema blog suggests that the Han Solo spin-off movie, which is expected to start principal photography in February 2017 in the UK, will also film scenes in Spain and Italy. Read on for the details…
The Spanish site ElBlogDeCineEspanol claims that the Han Solo spin-off movie, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller has already set its filming locations and Spain will be one of them. According to them the filming will take place on the island of Fuerteventura. It is said that the island will be one of the essential locations for the movie.
The Spanish blog also have learned that Italy will be another shooting location for the Han Solo spin-off movie.
The Fuerteventura island is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, politically part of Spain. It is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife. It was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in May 2009.
As you see from the images above, the scenery very much reminds of the Maldives, where the Scarif sequence from Rogue One was shot. It seems that it’s really hard to have a Star Wars movie without sand. 🙂
But also keep in mind that, as some of our readers mentioned, Fuerteventura island has some really beautiful and out of this world mountains. So it remains to be seen which terrain is the one that the crew is interested in.
In a similar fashion as it was with the Skellig Michael filming for Epsiode VII and VIII, the Han Solo crew should be extra careful, since the island is a biosphere reserve and surely many restrictions will apply.
Since we were not familiar with the site that posted the news, we asked some of our Spanish friends, who confirmed that the site is credible. Still, until any official word is released, this should be taken with the usual dosage of salt.
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yes please give us more tropical environments in Star Wars!
Another tropical setting? Are they out ideas already?
Gotta put those Shoretroopers costumes to good use.
Yeah. I’m sure that’s the reason.
Not necessarily. Fuerteventura has some interesting mountainous features:
http://www.spanishandsurf.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Paisaje_09.jpg
http://blog.cosmos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Fuerteventura-sand-dunes1.jpg
https://a4.odistatic.net/images/landingpages/vacation/640×480/fuerteventura_640x480.jpg
http://www.travelmyne.com/photos/spain/coast-fuerteventura.jpg
Correct. The beaches are just a VERY small part of Fuerteventura. It looks like Mars and is full of inactive volcanoes.
They’ve probably been out of ideas since they filmed Episode I in Italy. I doubt we’ll ever see anything harsh like Hoth or Dagobah again. Tropical planets are much nicer to film at.
Dagobah was created on a sound stage.
Yeah… tell ’em they need to shoot in Croydon 😀
What a nonsensical comment.
if they shoot in northern italy(alpine regions specifically) it would be a good setting for corellia.
I thought Correlia too when I saw the locations. I guess we’re almost certain to see Correlia in the Han Solo movie anyway.
YES MAKE THAT HAPPEN! I live in northen Italy!
I’m spanish and it can be possible because these is believable web. We are a huge fans of Star Wars and we want that one film to be recorded here!!!
I bet my Millenium Falcon that if the rumour is true, they will also film in the island Lanzarote, next to Fuerteventura.
All the buildings made by the artist César Manrique are pure Star Wars.
https://es.pinterest.com/markpooke/the-art-of-cesar-manrique/
WHERE IN ITALY?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/95/4b/c2/954bc2a6b27fb7b5fad218e04962a8da.jpg
Han Solo is hanging out at Padme’s lake villa.
Han Solo is hanging out at Padme’s lake villa.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/95/4b/c2/954bc2a6b27fb7b5fad218e04962a8da.jpg
Kashyyyk… That’s my guess
Mine too…
Fuerteventura it’s more like a desert.
maybe not the beach,…search “mount Teide” it’s like a moon landscape…
http://www.spain-tenerife.com/en/places/lunar-landscape.html
Good choice. I’ve been there a couple of times and it basically looks exactly like Mars.
Clearly if you want to visit all of the beautiful and interesting locations on Earth, just join the Lucasfilm camera crew XD
Put me any alien costume and I’ll be there cheap!!!! “I burn for Star Wars.”
Hey there man. Are you going to Celebration?
I posted pictures of “the other side of Fuerteventura” to my Star Wars locations blog in case someone is interested in what to expect: http://starwarshyperdrive.tumblr.com/post/155617978134/rumor-has-it-that-the-upcoming-han-solo-standalone
What is it with these boring environments? When will we get a planet that is actually futuristic/alien?
When they hire real writers instead of hack from “team Spielberg”
Possibly Tatooine but in Spain rather than Tunisia. I find those mountains a bit reminiscent of Jabba’s palace. We might see Han “submitting a job application” as the Jabba’s favorite smuggler we all know or a “job interview”.
Kessel perhaps??? That Kessel run finally on screen???
If they are going to shoot another beach world again, I hope they at least make it brighter to differentiate it.