![]() ![]() Gerrera is hiding out on 'Jedha', a small desert moon, now occupied by the Empire. Jyn’s help is needed by rebel fighter Cassian ( Diego Luna) to contact Gerrera who he believes has gained vital information about a fearsome new weapon being developed by the Empire. ![]() You can catch a glimpse of the Lost World Pyramid and the Temple of the Grand Jaguar. The wider shots of Yavin IV’s jungle surface are, as they were in A New Hope, the ruins of Tikal National Park, a Mayan citadel dating from around the 1st century AD peeking above the rainforests of Peten in Guatemala. Three miles south of Bedford, these hangars, the largest structures of their kind in Europe and ideally suited to large-scale film making, were previously used by Christopher Nolan to house the expansive sets for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Inception. ![]() Much of this rebel base was built in the two enormous airship hangars at Cardington in Bedfordshire, north of London. It’s years later that the grown-up Jyn ( Felicity Jones) is sprung from capture and bundled off to the rebels’ outpost on the green moon of ‘Yavin IV’, familiar from Star Wars: A New Hope. Vík is about 110 miles east of Reykjavik on Iceland's southernmost tip.Īfter Galen is taken away to work for the Empire, his young daughter Jyn Erso is spirited away by rebel Saw Gerrera ( Forest Whitaker) but nevertheless she too still ends up enslaved. The stark mountains and black sand beaches of ‘Lah'mu’ where Galen Erso ( Mads Mikkelsen) and his family have retired to a simple farming life, are Mýrdalssandur Beach, a 20-minute drive east from the Southern Iceland fishing town of Vík í Mýrdal, beneath the mountains Hafursey and Hjörleifshöfði. Like many of the Star Wars movies, Rogue One was based in the UK, at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire. Gareth Edwards’ immediate precursor to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope succeeds by avoiding the mythic pretensions that bogged down the George Lucas prequels and going back to the adventure story roots. Movies based on video games, on toys, on theme park rides… and now one based on a plot hole. ![]()
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