New The Last Jedi Featurette Explores the Real-World Filming Locations of the Movie
(Beware, this article does not contain spoilers for The Last Jedi, but there might be spoilers in the comments section below)
Just a few hours before the World Premier of The Last Jedi in LA, the official Star Wars Youtube channel shared new featurette exploring the real-world locations visited during the filming of Rian Johnson’s movie. The video has a few new shots from Canto Bight and Crait. They are not huge spoilers but if you’re avoiding TV spots, then you should probably avoid this featurette as well.
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BUT ITS A WHITE PLANET GUYS! HOTH 2.0! REBOOT!
I MEAN. IT WOULD BE REALLY HYPOCRITICAL IF AFTER THE MOVIE CAME OUT A BUNCH OF US WHO STOOD UP AGAINST DISNEY AND LFL TO TELL THEM THAT THE LAST JEDI LOOKS JUST LIKE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK IN A TRAILER MONTHS AGO IS NOW SUPER ORIGINAL FUN AND AWESOME AND THAT CRAIT IS NOTHING LIKE HOTH.
THERES NO WAY WE WOULD DO THAT. NO HERE ON THESE FORUMS.
AMIRITE!?
It’s actually red. Like a “dusty” Mustafar, or what Mars would look like covered in dust. The white “salt” is like a first layer. I imagine a red-velvet “cake” dusted with sugar. There’s white rock over-top, but Crait is red.
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last jedi story SPOILER SPOILER SPOiLER> the first order strikes back, and part of the the rebelion flee,but the rebel base is destroyed. Rey gets trainned by Luke, but before finishing her triainning she senses her friends are in danger. Everybody meets in a city in the clouds of lava, where snorkel lives. The heros are tortured, there´s a battle between Ray e Kylo. Rey doesn’t go to darkseid, then she gets frozen in carbonite.
I went on a pilgrimage to Dubrovnik this year to check out the locations for Canto Bight I’ll look forward to seeing it in the movie next week.
They’re advertising the “real” aspect up to the very end…
It a world of fakey CGI clusterfuck movies, they can’t stress that aspect enough.
*eyeroll*
so jakku is back in it
Jakku?
Can you blame him for thinking so?
well it has a blue moon next to it like the blue moon we see the star destroyers (new order version ) shadow cross at the start of TFA https://i.stack.imgur.com/RFZNP.gif
Jakku is very whitish. Not golden yellow.
ahhh so its another sand planet yay another sand planet like the other city planet from TFA jesus is actually crying at its almost his birthday party
The City planet in TFA was Hosnian Prime. It wasn’t a sand planet.
I was implying they did another city planet to add to corascent, it’s like having another lava planet with a creepy castle on it but not using mustafa
According to the Canto Bight book that just came out, Cantonica is said to be a yellow orb from space, I believe that shot at the end is Cantonica. It’s a desolate sandy planet apart from the actual city and the ocean is an artificial one.
Or is it Tattooine?! I mean, Lucasfilm is sure keeping things diverse in the ST saga!
Nope!
It’s Cantonica
GREAT! Star Wars hasn’t had enough white/snowy/dusty/sandy/rocky planets in the saga! These ‘real world’ locations help make it feel like we’re in a GFFA!
Spoiler alert. Most of the galaxy is just that. Variations of rocks and dust. Mostly dead for hundreds of millions of light years between what we would hope is habitable planets.
Uh.. in OUR galaxy or in a GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY rooted in science FANTASY?? Lulz.
All galaxies be they far far away or even a long time ago. It is science fantasy. Meaning is still bases itself in a universe we can understand and generally relate to.
Really any space saga tends to. That’s why we need warp jumps, gates, hyperspace, FTL etc etc. Because space is a lifeless void where only rocks and dust exist save for the (again we hope) ultra rare planets that supports life.
That and most galaxies are made up of the same material that we burst from. Part of the reason we believe the galaxy exploded as part of the big bang. Nothing but scattered debris held together by gravity.
As for the Fantasy part… IE the Force. Perhaps it’s merely science we don’t understand yet! 😛
Please tell me what other Star Wars movies feature a red crystalline planet, a ritzy seaside casino city, and a green rocky island in the sea. (Save the last 5 minutes of TFA)
For all intents and purposes Crait is another Hoth. The red crystals are for the subterranean scenes. And I’m not talking about the ‘ritzy seaside casino city’ but the DESERT planet itself. And that green, rocky island just as well could’ve been on Endor or Naboo for that matter. Nice try, though.
Crait is Hoth? Because snow is white and so is salt? That’s your logic for deeming them the same? Ignore the whole thing about its red minerals being mined by the Rebels and the Resistance returns to occupy the old base there. How do you know Canto Bight is in a desert? How do know we see any of the terrain of the planet outside of Canto Bight? Naboo was an Italian Reniassancey type City. Not a Monte Carlo in space. And The Island looks NOTHING like anything on Naboo or Endor.
Crait, on the OUTSIDE is too similar visually to Hoth. You would have a point if the red crystals were on the outside of the planet. As for Canto Bight, every one is saying it is on a desert planet and the sea is artificially put there. Plus the city looks too much like Theed lit up at night. As for the island, it could easily be apart of Naboo or Endor. Hell, even those other, uh, ‘green’ planets in TFA. The bottom line is that the ST has hardly given us anything distinct or unique.
Give me a break. There are no surface oceans on Naboo or Endor, at least none we ever saw in the previous films. We saw a lake and some waterfalls on Naboo, and no water at all on Endor – that’s it. So you have no argument there. We may not see any of the Cantonica terrain outside of the city at all, and we certainly do see the crystalline interior of the planet of Crait. You are grasping at straws to find something to complain about here.
Stay away from the visual dictionary, some people already claims who snoke really is and for what you can tie its possible so… it also has (almost) the entire plot of the movie
What is this Visual Dictionary website you speak of? I’ve googled it and all I can find are references to the upcoming TLJ Guidebook…
Looks beautiful. A low level chase in the streets with speeders and presumably the fathiers or whatever. That could be quite cool!
“He knew our child would be strong with the Force. That he was born with equal potential for good or evil.” I’m just gonna put this out there this kinda sounds like they knew there was a threat and smoke knew she was pregnant, I’m guessing they hid the second child with lor san tekka…..and sent ben with luke at birth ben has dreams of a girl hence the “what girl” and the falcon being on jakku, i mean solo would only do that for his daughter and leia is strong enough of a person to know its for the right reasons, and it allows for the “i am your brother” is a much better reveal than anything else
They sure didn’t seem to think this girl could have been their daughter…and she wasn’t left with Lor san Tekka, but Unkar Plutt
You know lorcsan tekka wasn’t down the toad by accident right? That’s insane story telling
At this point in the Poe Dameron comic, Lor San Tekka isn’t even on Jakku. I wouldn’t exactly say he is watching over Rey nor is there any hint that he needs to get back to do so.
well thats just retarded coincidence then isn’t it doubled with the falcon makes tfa story even more feeble
That’s possible, but we see in Rey’s flashback that she was with Unkar Plutt, so she wasn’t “given” to Lor san Tekka as you say.
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‘Makes me feel like I’m on another planet’. Like what, John, EARTH?
You know Star Wars has reached its nadir, visually, when people can’t tell one planet from the next.
This movie is insane. The amount of work and set building and detail is just mind blowing. I do feel like smokes throne room is kinda out of place. There’s too much red going on visually. Red room red guards red saber. Black just looks better on screenwith accents of red. I loved Vader’s castle on mustafar and hope we get to see that again. But everything else is just awesome.