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You just believe it more.” When Isaac arrived in Wadi Rum for his first week of shooting, Abrams had set up a massive greenscreen in the middle of the desert. “It’s very difficult to design imperfection, and the imperfections that you have in these environments immediately create a sense of authenticity. “It’s the things that you can’t anticipate-the imperfections,” says Oscar Isaac, who plays the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron. There were sand storms, when all you could do was take cover and huddle in your tent and-if you’re John Boyega, who plays the ex-Stormtrooper Finn-listen to reggae.īut in a way that’s the whole point: you’re out there so the world can get up in your grill and make its presence felt on film. They basically had to set up a small town out there, populated by the cast and extras and crew-the creature-effects department alone had 70 people. Abrams and his crew had to build miles of road into the desert.

They don’t do it that way because it’s easy.

George Lucas shot the Tatooine scenes from A New Hope in southern Tunisia. Abrams went there to film parts of the latest Star Wars movie, The Rise of Skywalker, because it’s largely uninhabited and starkly beautiful and looks plausibly alien, and one of the things that has always made the Star Wars movies feel so real-as if they had a real life of their own that continues on out beyond the edges of the screen-is the way they’re shot on location, with as few digital effects as possible. Lawrence of Arabia passed through there during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. There’s a desert valley in southern Jordan called Wadi Rum, or sometimes “the Valley of the Moon.” There are stone inscriptions in Wadi Rum that are more than 2,000 years old.

Instal the last version for mac Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker