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Mos Espa marketplace film set, located in the Eriguet dunes north of Nefta in southwestern Tunisia. Multiple global locations were used for filming locations during the production of the Star Wars films to provide the setting for alien planets in the Star Wars Universe.
The California-born writer-director first visited Tunisia in 1975 while scouting locations for the 20th Century Fox production that was then known as The Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke ...
Ksar Hadada (Arabic: قصر حدادة), sometimes known as Ksar Hedada, is a village in southeastern Tunisia. It is well known as being a filming location for 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. [1] [2] [3] The population at the 2004 census was 1298, [4] and 1142 in 2014. [5]
The Lars Homestead set from Star Wars in Chott el Djerid. Chott el Djerid was used as a filming location for the Star Wars series, [15] among others. It was also described in Jules Verne's last novel, Invasion of the Sea. According to a legend, it was there that the Greek goddess Athena was born. [16]
When George Lucas and his crew were scouting locations for Tatooine in the first “Star Wars” film, they decided the arid landscapes of central Tunisia were the spitting image of the desert ...
Star Wars: Tataouine's name became famous worldwide when George Lucas, who shot the original Star Wars film in various locations in Tunisia, [22] named Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine. [23] X-Files: Tataouine appeared in the end of the film The X-Files as Foum Tataouine, where an extraterrestrial viral experiment facility was ...
Tunisia "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" George Lucas chose the adobe caverns of Hotel Sidi Driss as the set for Luke Skywalker's childhood home in the very first "Star Wars" movie. The hotel ...
Filming location Mos Espa (Star Wars) Tozeur was used as a filming location for the Star Wars saga and Raiders of the Lost Ark (specifically Sidi Bouhlel canyon outside the town and the salt-flats of nearby Nefta). Lucasfilm also built an entire set a few kilometers north-west of Tozeur in the middle of the desert. This set acted as Mos Espa in ...