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Tatooine (/ ˌ t æ t u ˈ iː n / TAT-oo-EEN) is a fictional desert planet that appears in the Star Wars franchise. It is a beige-colored, desolate world orbiting a pair of binary stars , and inhabited by human settlers and a variety of other life forms.
Planet Jedha and Planet Pasaana: Wadi Rum is a popular desert location, also used in Lawrence of Arabia. This location earned the Royal Film Commission – Jordan the Location Managers Guild Award for best Film Commission in 2017. [10] Laamu Atoll Maldives: R1: Planet Scarif: The Laamu Atoll makes up 82 of the 1,192 Maldivian islands.
Mos Eisley is a spaceport town in the fictional Star Wars universe. [1] Located on the planet Tatooine, it first appeared in the 1977 film Star Wars, described by the character Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Alec Guinness) as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy".
Travel to Tunisia for an immersive XR tour of three classic 'Star Wars' Tatooine locations on the franchise's 45th anniversary.
Planet used as a stepping-stone for the New Republic to retake Coruscant. [147] Byss: Dark Empire: 1991 Comics Planet chosen as the base of operations for a clone of Emperor Palpatine. Located very close to the center of the galaxy. It is destroyed by the Dark Empire's weapon, the Galaxy Gun. Included in at least one canon map. [148] [149 ...
It appears that George Lucas might have got it right when he envisioned a planet with two suns. Every "Star Wars" fan knows the scene from the first film. Luke Skywalker walks across his uncle's ...
In June 1997, American film director George Lucas used the area to shoot on-location scenes for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) to represent Mos Espa on the planet Tatooine, the birthplace of Anakin Skywalker.
'Star Wars' fans get excited -- NASA has just found a planet the size of Jupiter that has two orbiting stars, just like Luke Skywalker's home of Tatooine. Kepler-1647b: NASA astronomers just ...