ST Earthly Locations that You Think Would be Perfect for one of the New Star Wars films!

Not joking.

 

El Yunque rainforest - Puerto Rico

 

Villa Epecuen, Argentina -- a town flooded by salt water

 

WOW!
Looking at all these pictures!!!!

That's what I really liked about the PT was all the unique planets and what is Episode VII giving us?
(no offense to the OT as Hoth and Bespin, and for that matter the gray Dagobah, were all alien and unique too!) Same old desert and snow planets. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

Yeah, unless there's a lot more that we haven't been shown yet, then I have to agree with you -- The TFA's locations feel boring, and been there, done that.

At least the rumored place where Luke is hanging out looks pretty cool:

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The thing is, this thread shows that they could've used all real locations and still given us something visually spectacular and new. Oh well, more cool locations available for Ep. 8 and 9 at least.

 

My house.

 

Would totally up the box office in China too.

 

Looks like something you'd see on Naboo.

 

I'd like to find something more alien looking, but still real. (Not just cg stage background)

 

That's awesome.

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You don't need unusual natural formations to create visually interesting planets (though there are studies showing that people are attracted to natural formations that look like human structures, as you can see in some of the above). Sometimes, the most familiar landscapes (deserts, snowy mountains, grasslands) with interesting augmentations (such as a ble sun, five moons in the sky, or alien structures) can be the most compelling. Skellig may end up being the most gorgeous location yet.

Love what we're seeing so far. Would like to see Savannah and Mongolian steppe-like planets in the future.

 

Agreed. Familiar and simple work really well in Star Wars. I'd love some sort of springtime meadow planet:

 

A Chorus of Disapproval, could you move this thread to the SW Ep. 8 & 9 forums?

Thanks in advance!

 

Just got back from a second visit to Patagonia(stayed at the hotel on that island the first time) and I'd definitely agree with that. I think it has the potential to be similar to Iceland in terms of being an amazing previously largely unknown location that isn't actually THAT hard to access, no extreme altitude, no political instability and decent infrastcrure.

I especially love the combination of large glaciers and temperate woodland that's rather unique and potentially otherworldly, Parque Nacional Quelat in Chile especially with its hanging glacier stands out for me.



Imagine say a space port or some hidden entrance CGIed between the waterfalls.

 

Reynisfjara Beach in Iceland:



Various locations in Mongolia:

 

I'd like something grey for a different colour scheme... We have had plenty of yellow/red, white, green etc

I do love the fact that we got a water world with Lukes island!

 

Wow! Exactly what we need in regards to a new colour scheme!!

**Sorry DP**

 

Cappadocia's gorgeous. One of my best memories is of staying in one of its rocky dwellings. Unfortunately, the geopolitical situation in the region makes it an unlikely place for filming.

Also, I suspect the photos above have filters applied to them. Here's the general color scheme of the place:

 

Prambanan Temple Complex in Java. This would be an extremely cool location in my opinion. The surrounding scenery is amazing as well.

 

I thought Maz's castle was certainly inspired by South Asian temples like this (though I was thinking of Angkor Wat):

 

Siem Reap in Cambodia would be great for the variety of temples -- some in great shape and some in forest-hidden ruins.

What we haven't gotten any of from Star Wars is an honest-to-goodness tropical location. I vote the Chocolate Hills in Bohol Island as a location for a low-altitude, zig-zagging X-wing/TIE fighter dog fight, or maybe eggs of ancient, giant creatures that take centuries to hatch:

 

Mos Isley Garbage dump.
The cube down on the right is Phasma

 

Lake Ballard, Australia - imagine instead of the art installation titanium
statues, figures of Jedi and Sith frozen in time and space as the characters walk though the landscape .. dissolving as they are approached..

The moss covered lava fields of perennial favourite, Iceland.

This is the amazing looking Yellow River Hotel, in Mongolia. More pictures here --> http://inspirerendedesign.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/yellow-river-hotel-jungar-banner.html

Mirny Diamond Mine, Siberia, Russia - apparently the world's second largest man-made hole.. (who knew!)


La Citadelle, an abandoned fort in Haiti (look at that precipice!)


Yemen (sadly the equally gorgeous capital is having the #hit bombed out of it at present)

 

And had to finish with the Nubian pyramids at Meroe in Sudan (I couldn't tack it on to the end of my last post)



A-war memorial in the former Yugoslavia



The Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria,





Monument to the Battle of Bash-Asparan, Armenia (sort of looks like a Jedi temple/ luke's school?)