Possible Brief Description of a New Planet in Star Wars: The Last Jedi ?
According to Making Star Wars, one of their sources has vaguely described a new planet that will be of some importance in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Read on for the details.
MSW reports that their source described the new planet as looking like “Mars with snow on it“, and seems to be a base of sorts for the First Order. This red and white planet juxtaposed with the cool greens and blues of Ahch-To would definitely make for some nice visual contrasts in the upcoming sequel. MSW also speculates that the real-world filming location at the salt flats of Bolivia might be a stand in for this new planet. In their report, they also make mention of a “Stormtrooper General” being present at this location.
Based on the report above, let’s speculate for a bit about this new planet. A couple of planets that could possibly fit this description in the existing the Star Wars canon are Moraband and Dathomir, but of course, it could very well be a whole new planet.
Moraband is a planet with terrain described as “desolate” and “mountainous”. Here’s what Wookieepedia says about the planet:
Moraband was abandoned after widespread devastation during numerous wars. Located on the surface was the Valley of the Dark Lords, a wasteland filled with the tombs of ancient Sith Lords such as Darth Bane, among others.
Moraband also known in the past as Korriban, was the homeworld of the Sith. It was left an abandoned wasteland after many wars, though its existence was never forgotten by the Sith. Darth Bane, who created the Rule of Two, was the last Sith Lord to be buried in the Valley of the Dark Lords prior to its abandonment.
We have to remember the fact that Kylo Ren and Snoke are not Sith lords. This is something Pablo Hidalgo has explained numerous times. Still, that doesn’t mean that we won’t see the planet involved in the story in some capacity. Perhaps they found something there of great importance?
The planet Dathomir is said to have swamps, forests and mountains terrain so it is a possibility as well, but it is very unlikely mainly because of the importance that planet has already had in the Star Wars canon. Dathomir seems kind of played out at this point and I doubt it will have much significance in the sequel era.
Dathomir is the home of the Nightsisters, the Nightbrothers, Zabraks who were ruled by the Nightsisters, and particularly Asajj Ventress and Darth Maul.
As I mentioned though, this red planet could very well be a whole new world, which will be most likely the case. What do you think?
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Don’t think it would be Dathomir, I think all the Nightsister EU stuff would keep Lucasfilm from going there. Moraband maybe, but considering in TFA they were on a desert planet and they went out their way to say “it isn’t Tatooine” makes me think this will be a new planet.
Sounds like another boring planet. I was hoping they learned from their mistakes with regards to the last 2 movies…
So, what to you would make an ‘exciting’ planet? The OT showcased Lucas’s penchant for single-environment planets (or moons), but it should be pretty obvious that at some point they were going to run out of options for new examples. The tundra environment of the Starkiller Base micro-planet was a great choice but people complained that it was too much like Hoth or Endor…because…you know…trees and snow. Rogue One had scenes take place in a tropical, island environment which we haven’t before seen.
People and their gripes man, people and their gripes…
An “exiciting” planet would be something creative that makes you feel like you’re in another world and not in the forest near my house or a random desert.
The planets of Star Wars are earth-like. If you want “other-worldly” planets, you usually end up with CGi garbage like this that doesn’t feel like Star Wars at all:
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Some of us want that though. Not all the time, just every once in a while.
And Coruscant. Lots of CGI, but oh does that cityscape at night look pretty.
Actually every important building on Coruscant is miniature, not CGI.
Agreed, but OP (Crixxxx) was complaining about models as well.
Models like the ones used to make artificial planetary environments like Felucia.
Re:”Models like the ones used to make artificial planetary environments like Felucia.”
Ok, so you didn’t like the use of models in Felucia, but liked it for other planets.
That’s still not “on location” – it’s artificial. Like the Hoth we see with the AT-ATs & speeders battling or an entire planet setting like Dagobah, both created with tech from the 1970s.
I just don’t understand your aversion or actual complaint.
It’s possible to make entirely realistic, yet entirely *alien* environments – be it sets/miniatures/cgi.
he just wants to complain
Actually, I’m responding to people complaining about the lack of fantastical environments in the sequel trilogy. If you had actually read the full discussion you would know that.
nope you’re just complaining
And you’re just trolling.
lol really? “you’re just trolling” lol is that all you can say after you basically contradicted yourself several times?
What I like is real human beings being shot in a real earth locations for expansive planetary settings. What I don’t like are the means used to create fantastic environments that look fake and unconvincing, such as models and CGI. And by no means does it look as good as a real location. Maybe you’re convinced by a bunch of goofy looking plastic flowers, or some overblown CGI garbage, but I’m not.
You obviously don’t understand the difference between location shooting and studio shooting. Any time a production goes to shoot a location outside of the studio, it’s called location shooting. The Force Awakens filmed in Abu Dhabi, Iceland, Ireland, the English Lake country and Greenham Common, UK. The rest of the film was filmed at Pinewood Studios.
There is an obvious difference between vehicle models and planetary environment models, like said plastic flowers. Vehicle models do not make up a planetary environment. Models of AT-ATs and snowspeeders did not make the planet Hoth. Extensive shooting in Norway did, and it looks great because they made the effort to go there and film with aerial photography and actors.
Understand now?
Re: “You obviously don’t understand the difference” / “”Maybe you’re convinced by a bunch of goofy looking plastic flowers, or some overblown CGI garbage, but I’m not.”
Oh please Crixxxx – now you sound like a condescending troll on this topic.
You make silly statements, wrongly claim Felucia is, back peddle on Coruscant for having models, say models don’t look real (after pointing out they look real), misrepresent what I said, ignore the valid points about modern+high quality CG/combo CG (only after ignoring sets & model talk & using a strawman saying I was talking about CG)…. & unable to explain your inconsistencies/back-peddling resort to saying something condescending which doesn’t hold water.
I say – “AT AT battle on Hoth”, then you come back with – “oh did you mean the AT ATs?”.
You write – “Models of AT-ATs and snowspeeders did not make the planet Hoth”, after I specifically said the snow, the mountains, the sky – all artificial.
Your misdirection/misrepresentation is beginning to seem intentional.
Re: “The Force Awakens filmed in”
See…for TFA or more recently Rogue One (or countless other high quality/production value feature films) there are so many scenes where a vast majority (or entirety) of the scene is CGI that you can’t even tell.
You keep going back & ranting about “plastic flowers” (after earlier complaining they were those *obviously* fake CGI flowers!) …. so again, it seems you have some weird beef with Felucia. Whilst ignoring that much of the cool looking planets/settings we’ve visited in Star Wars are *artificial* – sets/models/CG/combo of the above (yes, this includes TFA & Rogue One! I’d not be surprised if there was more practical effects in PT & more CGI in ST).
Guess what – they didn’t visit an asteroid field for ESB, nor walk on a space slug. Dagobah is not a real world location & much of the coolest we saw on Hoth was a set/models (yep- that was ships, it was snow/hills/sky & mountains too ….you know, that *outside* stuff).
And if they were to have created that asteroid field today (or snow battle or swamp+jungle planet) – they’d probably use a decent amount of CGI & it would look *better*!
Re: “Understand now?”
It seems to boil down to this:
1) you were scarred by that Felucia scene – doubly scarred now that you learned it wasn’t CGI
2) you want the SW universe to look like every planet they visit exists somewhere here on earth
[ optional 3) be condescending when logical inconsistencies are exposed/questioned ]
I do understand now.
So uh, have you ever wondered if Science-Fiction is maybe not the genre for you? Because you seem to have a pretty big problem with anything “fake”.
You do realize all movies are fake right? And that Science Fiction is even more so, since it’s set in the future, in space. Nothing is real in Star Wars, so why “on location shooting” is so important for “realism” is pretty weird to me.
Also, pretty much all movies are using greenscreen, CGI and “fake” sets to a degree. It’s cheaper and easier. So maybe it’s time to move on?
Edit:
And oh yeah, The Force Awakens had a shit ton of “fake” scenes.
The First Order hangar in the beginning was ALL CGI. The Takodana fight was CGI and everything around it. That castle ain’t real.
Starkillerbase was a “fake” set and not a real forest.
Some people are fine with Jar Jar Binks. That doesn’t make it good.
you’re dumb. So is everything in the OG fake plastic garbage? no. You’re just a whinny kid.
You do have to remember that Star Wars takes place in outer space. Chances of every planet looking just like Earth is pretty slim. There’s probably some craziness out there.
Felucia is not “CGI GARBAGE” though.
It was an actual physical miniature. So believe it or not, it’s actually possible to make alien looking worlds without “CGI GARBAGE”.
So I agree with 0315715, Selena Dominguez
and Jason Miller.
They will run out of Earth environments and things will start to blend together. Planets won’t be indistinguishable and special anymore because they can’t be bothered with coming up with their own environments and want to wank over the fact that they “FILMED ON LOCATION”.
Personally, I would rather have them make more CGI planets if that meant exciting locations.
Because boy were the planets in TFA boring. Jakku was Tatooine 2.0 without the varied landscape. Jakku only had sanddunes and some crashed ships.
Takodana was literally a normal forest, nothing special about it. I could go for a 5 min walk and I’d enter a forest just like it. SO ALIEN AND FUTURISTIC.
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I stand corrected. Instead of CGI garbage it looks like fake plastic garbage.
It looks like weird CGI garbage, though. that just shows Lucas’ shitty compositing and misuse of miniatures in the prequels.
Felucia felt very Star Wars-ish.
How? What other planets in the preceding movies looked like a bunch of wierd plastic flowers?
Why we need to have same planets in every movie?
Yes we did not have anything like Felucia in other movies, but that was the point. To introduce something new. Every OT movie introduced something new. Bespin was alien looking and not Earth-like. But in TFA every planet looked the same as planets we already have seen in other movies.
I want alien looking planets, even if the want earth like, then choose something from Earth we did not seen before.
No, you don’t need the same planets. There are plenty of earth terrains that would make for interesting planets the likes of which we haven’t seen in Star Wars before. But when you have fantastical planets, you have to create them artificially, which usually ends up looking terrible with CGi or models and has no believably whatsoever, like Felucia. You have a pre-existing Star Wars aesthetic of gritty realism in your environments. Real location shooting is one of the things that makes Star Wars so visually appealing. When you replace that with fantastical planets, you have bunch of people standing in front of a green screen and fake backgrounds created on a computer that look terrible, like the prequel planets that were not shot on location – they look like video games.
Re: “Real location shooting is one of the things that makes Star Wars so visually appealing”
Yeah – like Dagobah!
Re: “CGi or models and has no believably whatsoever”
Yeah, Avatar looked like such crap too… almost as bad as that Hoth battle with those AT-AT models.
Wait…. what?!
Uh…Hoth was fimed on location in Norway:
http://briff.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Star-Wars-Secrets-The-Empire-Strikes-Back-Behind-the-Scenes-Hoth.jpg
That’s a bit of a straw-man there… who said anything about “CGI & actors standing in front of green screens”?
1) You said “or models & has no believably whatsoever” & I replied with “Hoth battle with those AT-AT models”. Mode for models comment.
2) I pointed out another example of a non-location with Dagobah.
Uh…. “Hoth battle with those At-AT models” was NOT in Norway:
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If you are talking about the battle of Hoth, in which the snowspeeders take on the AT-ATs, yes it was models. Obviously, you don’t shoot models on location. The conversation, however, was about planet environments in general, particularly those in which actors, not vehicles, were shot. All of the scenes in which actors were shot on the outdoor Hoth environment were shot on location in Norway, and it looks great. I was the one arguing about the realism of shooting on location looking better than green screens and CGi, and it certainly does look better. When I was referring to models, I wasn’t talking about vehicles in action sequences, I was talking about models like Felucia being used to make an artificial planetary environment.
Re: “If you are talking about the battle of Hoth”
I wrote:
“that Hoth battle with those AT-AT models.”
After you complained about models.
Re: “was about planetary environments in general,”
Yes, Hoth was a “planetary environment”.
You said models look bad.
Sky, mountains, snow – all artificial & not a “real location”.
Re: “All of the scenes in which actors were shot on the outdoor Hoth
environment were shot on location in Norway, and it looks great.”
And all of the Hoth base we NOT “shot on location” & looked great!
And almost all of the scenes with the AT-ATs & speeders battling were NOT “shot on location” & used models….& guess what – looked great.
Re: “When I was referring to models, I wasn’t talking about vehicles in action sequences, I was talking about models like Felucia”
Ok, so it sounds like you have a problem with one specific planet made using models (which I think you previously thought was CGI? regardless) which was made a very long time ago & show with compositing techniques & mixed with digital cameras that are a far cry from what they’d do today.
Re: CGI
Since you’d also brought this up & mentioned Avatar.
No matter what people think about the movie as far as acting/story – Pandora basically looks like a *real* place, something that can/does exist. And THAT was made using 8-9yo CGI technology.
Heck, a newer example of some amazing special effects, seamlessly blending real world sets/locations & CGI is the new Mad Max film.
Re: “on location” – Dagobah
Again, I pointed out Dagobah.
That’s an entire world we visited in Star Wars that had ZERO “real world” / “on location” shots (unlike Hoth). A planet completely *invented* & *created* for us… and that was in the late 1970s.
I simply don’t share your concerns & think that very imaginative worlds can & have been created in the SW universe (& other films) which are not limited by “on location”.
SW is all about a vast & diverse fantastical galaxy…& I vote that they use all of the tools at their disposal to keep surprising & entertaining us with the new worlds we visit.
Let me explain this again as it’s clear you have trouble comprehending it:
Vehicle models are different from planetary environmental models. I was never talking about vehicle models, as vehicle models have nothing to do with creating a planetary environment. I was talking about environmental models.
When you are trying to create an environment that doesn’t exist, there are a number of ways you can go about it: 1.Go to a real world location and film your actors there. 2. Create the environment on a sound stage in the studio. 3. Use special effects such as models and CGI and composite your actors into the artificial environment.
My argument was that option 1 was and still is the best, both for the sake of believably and honoring the pre-existing Star Wars aesthetic. Option 2 is acceptable, if the scene does not require vast areas of the landscape to be seen, such as Dagobah. Option 3 is the least preferable to me, in that environmental models and CGi have proven to be the least convincing means of creating a believable world, and come across as synthetic and fake, which takes me out of the movie and doesn’t seem like Star Wars to me.
All of the Hoth shots involving live actors certainly were shot in Finse, Norway. Aerial footage was captured by helicopter, which is what you see when the snowspeeders are searching for Han and Luke. The rebel troops were shot there, too. The only artificially created parts of that environment were created for the Walker battle and the opening TaunTaun shots, in which matte paintings and powdered snow was used for the obvious reason that stop-motion model work had to be done at ILM.
Avatar is an entirely different franchise. Nothing about that film and it’s psychedelic CGI overkill evokes the grittiness of classic Star Wars. And nothing about the environments created for that movie look more convincing than a helicopter shot flying over Norwegian mountains all the way back in 1979.
Star Wars should not look like some trippy Valerian movie or a glorified video game, or a cartoonish acid trip with CGi overkill. The saga has a very distinct visual style that has worked well, and has thankfully been revived after the prequel fiascoes by filmmakers who actually get what made Star Wars so visually appealing in the first place.
Re: “Vehicle models are different from planetary environmental models. ”
Let me explain this again, since you keep diverting & changing the subject.
I specifically pointed out in my original comment that that AT AT Hoth battle was: SKY, MOUNTAINS, GROUND … that’s exactly PLANETARY ENVIRONMENT!
Not vehicles.
You keep conveniently:
1) ignoring what’s said
2) changing what’s said
It’s your condescending & insulting & just plain inaccurate view of quality models/CGI that they’re capable of producing nowadays that’s frustrating.
Even comments like this:
“Avatar is an entirely different franchise. Nothing about that film and it’s psychedelic CGI overkill evokes the grittiness of classic Star Wars. ”
I can’t tell if you’re being intentionally obtuse or disingenuous…
Are you telling me that you believe that because Avatar used a psychedelic aesthetic for the colourful world of Pandora that it’s not possible to channel those effects into a *gritty* palette/look for Star Wars?
Seriously?
If you don’t realize that Cameron *chose* that look & CGI didn’t *impose* it on him…. then I am sorry & maybe you should educate yourself on modern computer graphics first.
Re: “Star Wars should not look like some trippy Valerian movie or a glorified video game, or a cartoonish acid trip with CGi overkill”
Who exactly said it should or would?
Is that another strawman or are you arguing with yourself?
I come from a computer graphics background, and I follow the state of CGI in movies closely (most notable it’s what you DON’T know that’s CGI that’s impressive) so maybe I’m at an advantage here in understanding what can be (& is!) done nowadays.
As well, I see Star Wars as a universe which gave us fantastical worlds, created from models, sets, real locations & yes even CG. And I don’t think that even location are characters travel to should look like some place here on earth…that sounds restrictive & boring.
special effects have come a long way in 12 years.
That (Felucia) seems like 100% Star Wars to me 🙂 So I would say instead “some planets of Star Wars are earth-like, some thankfully not” CGI or not, thats one of more interesting things in SW, the places.
“CGI Garbage”
Felucia is actually done using miniatures. And it is one of the best looking planets in Star Wars. And it belongs perfectly to Star Wars universe. Pandora from Avatar is basically a rip-off of Felucia.
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I want to see alien planets, not copies of Earth all the time. It does not make sense from an evolutionary standpoint to have only Earth like planets in huge galaxy. Same as different creatures from Star Wars universe are alien looking, planets from which they originate should be too. Also I do not care what tool they will use to create Alien planets ( CGI, miniatures, sets ect.. ). I just want them back. Prequels and Clone Wars series have the best looking planets.
I agree. I think of all the crazy planets that they show in Clone Wars and Rebels and hope that some day we’ll see something similar on the big screen. Everything in the movies is too Earth-like.
Tatooine was a desert. Dagobah was a swamp. Hoth was filmed in Norway. Endor was a redwood forest. Three of those places were filmed on location. Were they boring? Did you not feel like you were on another world?
If you can’t handle the fact that there might be more than one planet in the Star Wars galaxy with some trees here and there, then the problem of imagination doesn’t rest with Lucasfilm.
People that take anything that’s thrown at them, man, people…
Now, let’s not put on airs that one demonstrates a certain level of sophistication over others simply because one finds it easy to complain about everything. That’s a thin veneer that doesn’t really hold up to any sort of concerted scrutiny. Let’s dispense with the idea that if one is critical of everything, then one must be looking at it with a cultured and discerning eye. That’s foolish.
You should know this. It shouldn’t have to be explained to you.
Let’s also not act like he doesn’t have a point. People read one thing and jump to a conclusion based on nothing concrete.
“Let’s also not act like he doesn’t have a point.”
No acting required.
Yep, b/c he does.
Oh, but the line that separates complaining from discerning is but a fine one at that. Thou shalt train your mind and eye to be able to separate the true demanding folk from the mere bitter, Internet troll. Not every opinion that is different from ours is a complaint, while not every complaint conceals a true desire for originality and art. You should know this.
“Thou shalt”? What’s with the King James affectation?
It’s an Internet commandment
You can never run out of options, if you have imaginations. Planets with different sky colors, planets with red plants, black plants, blue plants. Planets with only fungi ect.. There is soo many different options. I’am tired of Earth-like planets. I want something alien.
Re: “The OT showcased Lucas’s penchant for single-environment planets”
But the PT did show some very *alien* planets.
I wouldn’t mind them adding some very strange/alien environments/planets rather than just very earth-like places.
Another conclusion drawn based on rumors. After R1, you would think people would learn.
To me the star Wars planets match the aesthetic of everything else and has to have a consistent tone. The Star Wars weapons are based on real world weapons from WWII, the ships are bits and pieces from different model kits at least in the OT.
The PT took a different route and made everything a bit more sleek and more advanced looking which is weird because the OT takes place later so it’s like they went backwards in technology.
Now with the ST they of course wanted to match the OT more, so they are naturally going to make everything look a bit more like it did in the OT.
Therefore, the planets looking more like they did in the OT seems like a natural progression. In Rogue One we still got Mustafar and Vader’s castle, plus we got Scarif which looks a bit different from anything else we’ve seen.
“The PT took a different route and made everything a bit more sleek and more advanced looking which is weird because the OT takes place later so it’s like they went backwards in technology.”
Of all my criticisms of the PT, this was never one of them. The OT takes us to mostly to backwoods, undeveloped locations. The only real glimpse we get of anything otherwise is Cloud City. And the vast majority of what we see in terms of technology is military which has a very different, purposeful aesthetic than what we normally see in civilian life. There’s a big difference between a Jeep and a Ferrari; although both exist at the same time.
Sounds like a place Kylo Ren and Snoke could maybe do some training?
That would be fantastic. I would love to see a movie that shows Rey and Kylo Ren training with their respective masters. I’m not looking for a Rocky IV type montage with Drago and Rocky but something showing the both of them getting training would be fantastic.
Would be very cool to see some dark side training on the big screen to juxtapose the light side training we have seen before
Really hoping it is Korriban/Moraband. I would love to see that planet on the big screen. It would bring me back to the Kotor days…
The planet holds the well that refills Kylo’s constant tears….
Odds are this is a brand new planet. They created Jakku, which was basically Tatooine 2.0, just so they say it was “new”. I’m guessing they want to do the same and create new places. Nothing wrong with expanding the universe.
I just want to see planets in the expanded universe you’ve never seen before ya know?
The clickbait is strong with this one.
That’s not what clickbait is…Possible Brief Description is accurate
It is still a guess and a rumor and then on top of it are wild guesses on what it could be when in reality it’s most likely a new planet. It’s the clickbaitest thing ever. This site is great, I frequent it everyday but this shit is clickbait.
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They are pretty upfront about it in the headline, even down the question mark. It’s speculation, but the headline is clear about that. I hate clickbait. This ain’t it.
“You won’t believe on what EU planet the First Order will maybe have its new headquarter!”… that would be clickbait
mars with snow on. well there has been some years. maybe it’s
http://da.starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Geonosis
http://www.starwars.com/databank/jedha
Jedha would be cool, with a massive crater 🙂
OMG YES! The Rogue One novelization mentions that Jedha gets a giant crater from the Death Star firing. What if we visit it 35 years ever?
Would be cool to see.
Like how the novelization questions how extensive the damage will be over-all long-term, including damage to the atmosphere & whether it would be still live-able again.
We also know that it’s got lots of places for *rebels* to hide successfully in.
Heck, the Empire couldn’t find Saw & his crew.
Moraband or Korriban? They ‘ve brought some stuff from the old EU, they should’ve kept Korriban, Moraband sounds like a medicine or something
George didn’t like the name Korriban
Didn’t he think that it sounded too much like Kamino?
Hmm, not sure. I don’t know if I heard a specific reason, but it could be.
From what I recall he just liked the new name better.
Coruscant.
Ah, that’s right. That was some ironic logic coming from the guy who put “Tatooine” and “Dantooine” in the same movie.
The name change is canon so we’re stuck with it.
Korriban is also canon, according to Wikipedia.
I know, I was just saying why we’re stuck with the new name.
That was done to appease the fans who fret over such things,
Oh Gerry.
Your Lord and Savior changed the name.
George is responsible for Moraband. Sorry to tell you.
It’s probably a new planet.
I think it’s kind of weird how they keep on coming up with new planets when there are so many already established planets that we’ve NEVER seen before anyways. Use some of those.
Or make new ones.
i don’t think it’s that grave of an issue. I’m guessing that Hoth isn’t the only planet ion the galaxy that experiences snow.
I have been thinking the same thing
Most of the established planets aren’t in the right place — the Western Reaches and Unknown Regions — where First Order territory is expanding.
Oh yeah, that’s true.
If it is indeed a new planet I hope this to be a really new one, and not a “new” planet like Jakku.
Korriban would be great. They could juxtapose the first Jedi temple that Luke found with a sith temple.
Or this could be another Jakku/Not-tooine sort of deal.
gosh I hope not
How, exactly? When did we have a planet that fits that description in any of the movies?
And, if you are referring to Morriband… is the fact that, canonically, Morriband is red, enough to justify your statement?
What? What I said was meant as an analogous statement. Not my personal belief. Just a sentence.
To further clear it up it’s not a movie based comparison but a canon one.
Wasn’t Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia confirmed as a filming location?
That could very well fit… And it looks awesome too.
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That looks a bit like Malachor from Rebels.
I hope its the salar of uyuni, amazing place with a little cgi could look like a awesome planet
It’ll probably be a new place.
I dont know why they dont at least bother to bring back an old EU planet or a planet that has appeared in the previous movies back into these new movies. Dont get me wrong, I love these new planets they are coming up with, I like how they are expanding the universe even more with new planets. I liked Jedha and Scariff but I just wish to see a planet like Nar Shaada, Koriban, Rhen Var or ilum on the big screen.
You will most likely see Nar Shaddaa in the Solo flick.
that would be sick
Agreed. I mean of course I want to give artists the creative freedom to come up with whatever they want, but with so many new planets and characters being introduced, why not let every few odd ones be an EU legends planet or character. Especially if its only going to appear for a few minutes of screen time. For instance in Rogue One cassian could have just as easily been meeting an informant on Nar Shaada. Nothing about the scene or set design would be different but it would have made all the long time fans get excited. Its a tough balance, but I think lucasfilm is starting to become more open to directly using legends material after how successful Rebels has been doing it.
With this new information, I am pretty sure that the new planet is…
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mmm, cake.
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Sounds cool. I always thought geonosis looked a bit martian. Though I’m betting this is a new planet.
I WANT IT NOW!
The First Order is based in the Unknown Regions, Moraband/Korriban/Dathomir are not in the Unknown Regions. Which sucks, cause I’d like those worlds to make it into the films proper.
Is this the one shot in Mexico? I still like the name of Korriban better but Moraband has a better ring to it than Takodana, D’Qar, or God forbid Anch-to.
Dathomir the way it was in Star Wars Galaxies <3
“Dathomir: The planet, lit red by its central star, had numerous continents that were overrun with vegetation, forests, and swamplands.” – wookieepedia
Doesn’t sound like a marslike planet to me.
So then… In all trilogies middle part, there is a red colored planet.
What’s the red planet in TESB? Bespin?… Nothing happens on the gas giant.
Bespin isn’t even red its light brown.
Again a snowy planet? Boring. Why can’t they create new ones?
I was so happy to see Scariff – a completely new design.
We had Hoth and we had the Starkiller base. That’s enough snow for me.
There should only be snow on one planet in the entire Star Wars galaxy.
Can we please just go back to Coruscant and Naboo? They’re beautiful planets and that glimpse of it in R1 wasn’t enough!
That wasn’t Coruscant. That was the Ring of Kafrene.
no he meant when Jyn had a flashback of Galen Erso and Director Krennic were when she was little and it was on Caruscant
Oh. K.
I was talkin about that flashback sequence in Galen’s home.
We desperately need another desert planet. We didn’t have any of these since Rogue One…
Jadha