The cast and crew of "Star Wars" may have only pretended to go to a galaxy far, far away, but making the original trilogy took a lot of traveling. The films traverse multiple different planets, each with its own climates and locales. Since these were the days before wholesale digital environments, the "Star Wars" team had to go globe-trotting to locations that could approximate alien worlds.
Take Tatooine, the desert backwater where Luke Skywalker's (Mark Hamill) journey begins in the original "Star Wars." The planet's arid environment is actually the African country of Tunisia. The sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back," famously flips the original film on its head, so it begins on an ice planet, Hoth, rather than a desert one. To find the appropriate amount of snow, the crew headed to Finse, Norway. The rest of both films were shot in cozier conditions at Elstree Studios in London,...
Take Tatooine, the desert backwater where Luke Skywalker's (Mark Hamill) journey begins in the original "Star Wars." The planet's arid environment is actually the African country of Tunisia. The sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back," famously flips the original film on its head, so it begins on an ice planet, Hoth, rather than a desert one. To find the appropriate amount of snow, the crew headed to Finse, Norway. The rest of both films were shot in cozier conditions at Elstree Studios in London,...
- 12/21/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
1976 saw the publication of John Brosnan’s excellent book The Horror People. Written during the summer of 1975, it makes interesting reading 40 years down the line. Those who feature prominently in the book – Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, Jack Arnold, Michael Carreras, Sam Arkoff, Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson and Milton Subotsky – were still alive, as were Ralph Bates, Mario Bava, Jimmy Carreras, John Carradine, Dan Curtis, John Gilling, Robert Fuest, Michael Gough, Val Guest, Ray Milland, Robert Quarry and Michael Ripper, all of whom were given a mention. Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Junior, Michael Reeves and James H Nicholson were not long dead. Hammer, Amicus and American International Pictures were still in existence. George A Romero had yet to achieve his prominence and Stephen King wasn’t even heard of!
Brosnan devoted a chapter to a new British company called Tyburn Films. Founded by the charismatic and ambitious Kevin Francis,...
Brosnan devoted a chapter to a new British company called Tyburn Films. Founded by the charismatic and ambitious Kevin Francis,...
- 7/4/2014
- Shadowlocked
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