Where did they film the desert scene in Star Wars?


Where did they film the desert scene in Star Wars? In Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) we meet heroine Rey (Daisy Ridley) on the desert planet of Jakku. These scenes were filmed in the Rub' al Khali desert in Abu Dhabi.


What has been filmed in Death Valley?

Death Valley in Movies and Television
  • 20 Mule Team (1940)
  • 3 Godfathers (1948)
  • Accomplice (1946)
  • Air Mail, The (1925)
  • Ambush at Stovepipe Wells (1958) (TV)
  • American Vacation? ( 1984)
  • Ballad of Death Valley (?)
  • Bleak Future (1997)


Was Star Wars filmed in Lanzarote?

Ferrix, Star Wars: Andor “That's why Lanzarote became a good starting place to create the wider environment of [Ferrix.]” Look out for scenes featuring Salinas de Janubio, the Canary Islands' largest salt flat, and Lanzarote's Green Lagoon, its acidic hue a result of algae.


Where was the first Star Wars desert scene filmed?

George Lucas used Death Valley National Park in California to shoot scenes of the desert planet Tatooine in A New Hope. He used the area between the Mojave Desert and the Sierra Nevada for the scene where Obi-Wan Kenobi meets Luke Skywalker, R2-D2 and C-3PO for the first time.