ST Planets in the ST

Luckily, one does not exclude the other. An existing basis for weird digital flora and fauna could give us very nice results.

 

Sure. I'm open to that. I just don't have enough faith in the current state of visual effects to think that it will look as convincing as an actual landscape. There have been some real advances in CGI. But CGI environments continue to look artificial to me.

 

I also would expect the fauna to be much different on an extraterrestrial planet.

Would expect it to be just as alien as the aliens themselves.

 

I also expect that, Wildcat. But frankly, Star Wars is not science fiction. IMO, it works best when it echoes the mythologies, the archetypes and the places of Earth. And that means a possibly unrealistic profusion of Earth-like planets. IMO.

And until CGI and studio environments become just as convincing as natural environments, I'd rather keep them to a minimum.

 

Using a little can go a long way... taking an Earthly environment and altering the colors, and/or adding a bit of alien flora & fauna can work very effectively.

 

I thought the planet in the opening of STID wasn't bad, in that respect, though it still seems too exotic for Star Wars.

 

So Jason's (MakingStarWars) take on the planets we'll see is:

Sand Planet (Abu Dhabi)
Tree Planet (Puzzlewood; Rose's pub seems to be here)
Rebel base location (Greenham Common)
Scandinavian Snow Planet (Shot at (and around?) Pinewood; Evil Castle and Ren duel occurs here)
Island Planet (Skellig Michael; where Luke seems to be holed up)

So five planets in all, looks like. Source: http://makingstarwars.net/2015/02/t...gh-the-galaxy-in-star-wars-the-force-awakens/

My question is: where are the X-wings skimming across the water? This location seems similar to Skellig, where the only scene is apparently the final one in the film.

 

There was that exotic city MSW mentions that is located near water. Wonder what planet that's on. He also mentions a gigantic freighter the Falcon visits. Which is news to me. I thought the Falcon visits an asteroid or something.

 

I'm guessing Rose's pub is in or near the city? Apparently it's attacked. Perhaps the X-wings show up to help fend off the invasion?

 

I love the planet Fiddanl from WEG. It has mercury oceans and rapid continental drift.

 

So is there anything that definitely rules out the snow planet as Stygeon Prime and the Evil Castle as The Spire?

 

Aside from the Evil Castle being on a lake and the ground station for the superweapon with the Spire being a prison high up in snow covered mountains?

 

I thought Jason recently said the castle and the snowy forest were near to one another. So I assumed the castle would be in a snowy locale. Also, Roger Moore mentioned mountains and snow after his set visit.

So are we to have a desert planet that's not Tatooine and a snow planet that's neither Hoth nor Stygeon?

 

I get the impression that the snow planet is more 'Bavaria in Winter' than anything else.

 

I agree that that's certainly the impression one gets from the teaser. Admittedly Stygeon seems more like the high Alps than the Black Forest.

Edit:

I wonder if Neuschwanstein was the inspiration for the evil castle. It was for the Disney castle...

 

Okay, I have been sitting on this news for a while and I finally got the go ahead from my source (who IS a real person, I swear, honest to God) to make it public.

The super weapon,"Uber" and the planet where Luke is in exile are all the same thing.

Meet ...

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.... Ego the living planet



... With exception of Leia's visit to the Hutts and the scenes set in space, this is the only planet in TFA. The desert planet, snowy forest, Skellig, and the lake from the teaser are all on Ego (played by Andy Serkis), who alters his terrain to prevent the heroes from rescuing Luke. The entire plot is the rescue mission, and when Ego uses his psionic to destroy the Alliance fleet, Leia is forced to turn to the Hutts for help as Ego cuts a path of destruction through Imperial space towards the Alliance capital. In the final battle, Luke, Leia and Rey use the Force to tear a hole in space-time and Ego falls through it into the Marvel Cinematc Universe.

This all 100% true. I can prove it.

 

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here is the catapult


- finally the origin of Galactus is revealed. Now who is playing the 'Silver Surver'?

 

nightangel

You could be onto something there - I have been hearing whispers that

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Paramount and Disney what to do a crossover between Transformers and Marvel.

Unicron being the love child of Ego and Galactus, and thereby the craters of the Transformers, is sooo obvious it, it is crazy that we missed it before.

Optimus Prime's journey (begun at the end of the last movie) will obviously bring him to both the GFFA and MCU on his quest to find his "grandfathers".

I uspect that Adam Driver's Kylo Ren will become the new Silver Surfer, allowing Fox in on the crossover party too.

I mean, who among us isn't weak at the knees at the thoughts of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine joining not only the Avengers, but the Jedi Knights. Snikt!!!

 

I don't have a frame of reference for this (the thread used to be sticky-ed at the top of the SA forums page) but early on during production for TFA there was a photo that everyone was poring over that showed the Falcon flying relatively high over the landscape of a planet with what appeared to be canyons and water below it (that's how I remember it anyway; could be wrong). The photo had been in the background on like a clipboard or something behind some of the crew who were at a table.

Anyways, my question is was that a real photo that was supposed to be from the film or was that concept art? I just recall it being an official pic is all, and it looked like it was a snippet of CGI-rendering from the graphics, but I haven't spotted rumors pertaining to it since so... yeah, just wondering.

 

It was concept art - it was revealed very very early. They wouldn't have had any effects shots finished at that point.

 

Ah... ok. Like I said it'd been awhile since I'd seen it, but from what I remember it was very naturalistic looking, so I'd assumed it was more than concept art. Thank you for apprising me of that though.

 

As a must I expect : Coruscant and Tatooine .
Maybe :Korriban \ Moraband .
Definitely NOT : Hoth .

 

I don't expect Hoth. But I wouldn't object, either. The scenes on Hoth are some of the most visually impressive across all 6 films, IMO.

 

One of the things that will limit reappearances is the state of the world. The Finse glacier is all melty, I hear. And the differences people are noting between Tatooine and Mystery Desert Planet could simply be the result of not being able to film in Tunisia anymore.

 

I'm hoping with Celebration they will announce what some of the planets are.
it would be nice to have a name to the desert planet and to be able to call by it's name.