EXCLUSIVE Pictures From the Star Wars: Episode 7 “Puzzlewood” Set! (No Spoilers)
Friday Viral Hide posted an interesting article about Star Wars: Episode VII filming in a location called “Puzzlewood.” We have some exclusive, post-filming photos from the set after the jump!
To recap the story thus far:
* Episode VII shot in this mysterious “Puzzlewood” location for approximately four days.
* Viral conferred with a source who confirmed that the scenes included a spaceship NOT the Millennium Falcon
* Viral also confirmed that there were little people who were NOT playing Ewoks
Word of this broke through a reader named Mark, who gave us what details he knew of the shoot as well as a pretty good description of the area and how it operated from a production standpoint. Well, our friend, Mark, has contacted us again, this time sending us a variety of pictures from the area. You can still see some cables and equipment laying around. Check them out:
We know that Ewoks, and presumably Jawas, are NOT in the running. So could we be seeing a new alien species??? OR is this the home world of those awesome little Ugnaughts??? What do you think?
Nice, looks very mystical and magical. Would be awesome if they used the yavin 4 temple in the original film as the jedi temple and this is where Luke is training Jedi. I hated the business board room feeling the jedi seemed to present in the prequels instead of the otherworldly religious tone.
They are Ewoks. It is obvious.
The source VH talked with confirmed that they aren’t Ewoks. It even says so in the article.
Yeah … but it’s probbaly Ewoks. It’s just Khan Denial Syndrome again.
Forests and nature in general can be so peaceful. It’s nice to see more evidence of actual shooting locations! xD
Nothing new. Parts of all six movies are filmed on real locations also.
“Parts” is the operative word.. Ep 3 didn’t have any location work involving actors at all. Just greenscreen and added backdrops.
Naboo forest was a real forest with real trees dropping, a forest similar to this one.
Every prequel had locations. Forests, established architectural dwellings, and beaches with real sand.
That is not true..
EP III is filmed in Tunis ( Tatooine ), Thailand ( Kashyyyk scenes ), Italy ( parts of Mustafar ) ect..
All 6 films used real locations in combination with fake-ones.
Yes they all filmed on location but youre kidding yourself if you think the last two werent primarily green screened. I really dont know the movement to so strongly defend against this. George Lucas or the prequels dont need your defensse guys
They are not.
EP I:
1. Palace of Caserta ( Italy ) – Naboo Royal Palace
2. Glade in Whippendell Wood, Whippendell Woods, Cassiobury Park, Watford ( UK ) – Naboo forests scenes
3. Ksar Hadada, Ghoumrassen ( Tunisia )- Tatooine: Mos Espa slave quarters
4. Ksar Ouled Soltane ( Tunisia ) – Tatooine: Mos Espa slave quarters
5. Onk Jemal, Tozeur ( Tunisia ) – Tatooine desert scenes ( for example Qui-Gon vs Darth Maul duel )
Most of Tatooine and Naboo scenes are filmed on real locations
EP II:
1. Palace of Caserta ( Italy ) – Naboo Royal Palace scenes
2. Plaza de España in Seville ( Spain ) – Naboo: City of Theed scenes
3. Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como Villa del Balbianello ( Italy ) – Naboo lakeside scenes
4. Matmata ( Tunisia ) – Tatooine: Lars Homestead scenes
Again almost all Tatooine and Naboo scenes are filmed on real locations
EP III:
1. Phang Nga Bay, near Phuket ( Thailand ) – Kashyyyk
2. Guilin ( China ) – Kashyyyk
3. Mount Etna ( Italy ) – parts of Mustafar scenes.
4. Grindelwald ( Switzerland ) – Alderaan
So stop this Prequel movies bashing
nonsense.
Like original trilogy, prequel trilogy also had many real locations and many fake-ones.
Yes they went to a lot of those locations to shoot plates, but the actors were not there for all of it. Like I say, there was no actor/location work in ep 3, just greenscreen work with location plates added later. The actors did not physically go to those locations to shoot the scenes ..
Not true. Actors were in all these locations. Especially in EP I and EP II were almost all these scenes filmed on locations had real actors in it ( who were really there ).
Yes they were. For example last scene in EP III, when Obi-Wan leaves Luke on Tatooine ( to his uncle and aunt ) is filmd on real location with actors.
In EP I and EP II actors were on all real locations.
.. Can’t you read?
Someone who know what he’s talking about finally! You are right. Episode 1 and 2 had some real locations that the actors actually acted in. In Episode 3, the only “real locations” were shot as second unit background plates to be composited later with the actors in front of blue/green screens. The actors were never in Switzerland, or Thailand or Tunisia or Italy for Episode 3. The final scene when Luke is given to the Lars family was not shot in Tunisa. That is a digital environment. Trust me when I tell you that that was shot in a studio.
In Episode III there was no location + actors shooting, THAT’S IT. The end scene in Tatooine was shot during Episode II shooting, here you have the prove: http://youtu.be/gqHh578EfrU?t=5m18s
FYI: At that particular scene, the only shot with actors done on-location was the very end shot. The rest with Beru and ObiWan was blue-screen and plates.
Geez… Episode III was shot completely in studio / Australia. Now STFU!
Yeah, right, but the problema is it seems more real a Ralph MCquarrie painting than a computer generated environment
Nope. PT has really great alien environments. Better than OT.
I hope that in ST alien worlds will not look like different parts of planet Earth.
OT environments really looked just like different parts of Earth, not very alien. Tatooine looked the best.
This guy again? For Christ’s sake give it a rest!
Why Wing, again you dude!!! You simply can not stand the fact that a lot of people love PT.
listen your own advice, and give it a rest!
Just watch any PT documentary on the DVD’s and 90% of them a actors in front of green screen. The only real location that holds up on screen was Naboo in Episode 1 as the rest of the trilogy looks like a video game. You guys have your 1-6 story as I as most of us will be 4-9 fans as the OT & ST will mesh much better.
Even if the prequels did use real world locations, just look at the scenes that were shot in those: Anakin making out with Padme, Anakin acting like a creepy stalker-ish wimp, Anakin falling off stupid looking aliens. Episode I has some cool real world location/battle scenes, the last 2 episodes’ real location scenes were the *worst*. “I don’t like sand… it’s course, rough and irritating.”
Come on man, everyone knows successful women fall for creepy young stalkers all the time, especially if they’re a bull rider:p
Only in your dreams. Most fans love all 1-6 movies. Tjey are all great ( some more than others ).
Minority of people who dislike prequel movies, are, well minority.
As for ST movies, we need to warch them first, and then speak about how good or not they are.
Watch them again.
EP I and EP II are full of real locations.
http://boards.theforce.net/threads/practical-effects-in-the-prequels-sets-pictures-models-etc.50017310/
It’s funny to hear the denial of PT haters. They start making stuff up to justify their own biased opinions. I especially like it when PT haters say the whole podracing sequence was obviously CG’ed. surprise! It wasn’t.
Perhaps not… but unfortunately for that sequence the obnoxious two headed announcer was CGI’d… badly. Even if it was done well, it wouldn’t change the fact that the announcer is annoying.
Noghri.
Given their resources, I find it strange that they have left “litter” on the ground, some of which even seems to be functional equipment.
Do we think it is beyond them to film in one place and then deliberately leave behind various stuff in a quite different place, so as to mislead the fans they know would invade the forest as soon as security was lifted?
Then again, a forest is a forest, and presumably doesn’t look THAT different at various spots anyway. The location does possess atmosphere, whatever world this turns out to be.
If there was artificial lighting used, should we expect a night scene in the finished movie?
No, they were in the process of picking the gear up and taking it to the truck. Only 2 workers there Saturday. I don’t think there were night scenes, despite seeing flood lights in the field. Film lighting is needed in the forest due to the shaded areas.
As someone that works in the industry I can tell you lighting is always used in any environment any time of the day
Not necessarily a night scene.
You can overpower the sun with proper lighting to create your own sun. Might do that to control the direction of light, to keep it consistent. Using just sunlight, a shot at 9 am would look different than a shot at 3 pm because the light changes as the sun moves across the sky.
Or they needed to enhance the light because of the shadows, or because of whatever lens/camera they’re using.
There are all kinds of tricks you can pull with just a camera, a lens, and a few lights. Just depends on the atmosphere/mood you want to create.
I’m really hoping that they pick up the tradition from the first three films of having a new race of little people in each film. I was sad that Lucas didn’t continue with that in the Prequels. Anyway, this certainly seems to support the idea that Abrams is taking us back to the traditions of the original trilogy If I may paraphrase, “I have a very good feeling about this!”
Now, if only they were going back to the proper opening day for a Star Wars film: the Wednesday before Memorial Day.
Hmm, we have a new raceS of dwarf aliens prequels to.
But prequels also introduced tradition of adding new race of tall ( taller than human ) aliens in every movie.
I’ll say what I said on the other Puzzlewood story.
I could see this as Yavin 4, didn’t Luke start the new jedi temple there? Maybe it’s not canon anymore but, I could see it.
As far as little people, maybe younglings?
Luke taught on Yavin 4 in the Jedi Academy trilogy set of books…worth a read even though it isn’t canon anymore. Have to say I was annoyed at first at the lack of info but I think it’s gettng fun…kind of like a mystery that us fans get to solve along the way. The speculation adds to the experience.
Maybe it could even be Corellia, birth place of Han Solo. Because, of the Iceland shots of the mountains.
Here’s what Wookieepedia says.
Corellia’s surface was extremely temperate, dominated by rolling hills such as those of Bindreg, thick forests, lush farmland, golden beaches, and large seas. Snow-covered mountains dominated part of the landscape.
Yoda’s home world and species anyone?
If not that then, Ugnaughts would rule! Let me just say that again. Ugnaughts would RULE!
Looks like maybe they were using the IMAX camera?
Lightsabers?
If they only shot for a couple of days then it’s just gonna be a few scenes.
“I have a very bad feeling about this.” I think we will be seeing Ewoks….
It’s a cool idea but I think the whole idea behind Yoda was to make it seem like he belongs to an extinct species, we didn’t see any other Yoda like beings in Star Wars. Plus the little people aren’t small enough to play that type of species anyhow. Yoda’s even shorter than that haha.
Yaddle, Episode 1 is a female version of Yodas species.
I stand corrected… I never spotted her in Episode 1 but I guess she’s in there? Weird, cuz in the Yoda wikipedia it says his planet/species of origin is a mystery… though I’m sure there’s various sources for this sort of thing. Just going from George Lucas’s original intentions they almost made him out to be a mythological sort of figure… like I couldn’t have seen Lucas do a “life of Yoda” story if you know what I mean.
I do get where your coming from about Yodas character, the mythological figure.
I also agree with you that Yoda was shorter than that, good call lol
The whole idea of creating a species and home world for Yoda is a scary thought!
I’m just afraid that because Yoda passed in ROTJ….that Disney will want to try to capitalize on the whole mystic of Yoda, and do that very thing.
May the Force be with us.
Plz don’t worry, JJ won’t do that to us I don’t think! The “Looper” director is pretty good too, I just saw that movie and was very impressed. I’m not sure if Disney has the authority to step in and say “could you add in a cute Ewok-ish species so that we can sell toys?”. If they did set some type of parameter for JJ to work under, which would force him to create the cute species or whatever, then I’m sure JJ would do his best to utilize it in a non irritating way (haha).
I’m hoping & am like 99.9 % sure the outline they are using for story and locations was the one Lucas wrote in the 80’s. I’m not sure if it was specific enough for them to not have sufficient creative control to create new worlds of their own.
The persistent mysteries surrounding Yoda’s species are among the questions the prequel trilogy might do well to finally adress. Canonically, only two members of this species have ever appeared (and Yaddle’s role in Episode I is extremely low-key — many won’t notice her at all).
Pretty much all we know about the “Yodas” is that they are extremely long-lived. I would like to see them revealed as some kind of guardian race protecting the innermost mysteries of the Force. Perhaps they are the oldest of all sentient races, in a galaxy teeming with intelligent lifeforms. (That is, unless you count the “Celestials” that have appeared in EU sources; that have evolved into a godlike form and now apparently reside inside the Force itself.)
here you go
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131116223700/starwars/images/a/ac/High_Council_Chamber.png
Yeah we’re just gonna leave 1,000s of dollars worth of equipment laying around the forest after filming our big block buster film…….
Does anyone really believe this is a set of Star Wars Episode 7?
Didn’t you see the huge production crew there? People in the know-how have confirmed it anyway. Plus a guy was spotted in a stormtrooper costume and one of the vans had AVCO written on it which is the films production title. What else do you need lol. Oh no there’s cables so it could be any film ! Don’t be so naive haha.
Where’s the pic of the guy in the Stormtrooper costume?
Right here (see the updates):
http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2014/07/rumor-star-wars-episode-7-film-uks-forest-dean.html
That look like Dixie Arnold
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4279492/?ref_=rvi_nm
Hey didn’t the casting call for “little people” just come out in the last few days, week or so?
And the are DONE filming in the forest…….
So the 2 might not have anything to due with each other.
Little forest people that are not Ewoks- you got me. Smurfs, perhaps?
Gummi Bears.
lol every article contains a couple of know it all’s that insist on being right. Stfu
Bothans/Bothawui perhaps?
http://dashpunk.com/blog/2010/12/3/the-battle-of-bothawui-star-wars-the-old-republic-timeline.html
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bothan
interesting way of linking a passing reference in the OT to the events of the ST…?
Just a thought.
Maybe we are finally going to see E.T.’s planet.
Wasn’t that supposed to be Felucia?
Maybe its the planet where they get all those short people to go inside the R2 units?
A revi
It would be interesting if Yoda and E.T.’s species should share the same home world.
1-Yoda is a well known figure in the senate chamber
2-E.T. creatures exist in SW and can be seen in the senate chamber (so, we asume they know Yoda)
3-Some E.T. creatures come to Earth, one of them meets a Young boy
4-That Young boy plays with SW figures
5-E.T. meets a kid dressed as Yoda at Halloween…and recognises him…
6-It’s reasonable to asume that E.T. can make bikes and toys fly by using the force….
…Which must mean E.T. IS A F……. JEDI!!!
There is of course an inherent logical problem here. The boy Elliot of E.T. fame lives in a world where the Star Wars franchise is fictional and you can buy Yoda Halloween masks. Yet E.T.’s own race exists in the Star Wars galaxy, as if Elliot lives in the same universe where the events of Star Wars take place (albeit in the distant past and in a remote galaxy).
Perhaps, in that universe, George Lucas is some kind of visionary who has received supernatural information about a galaxy far, far away and presented it to the world as a series of movies?
And no, this can’t be OUR universe, it has to be the universe where the events of the “movie” E.T. happened for real in our world. (Seems pretty certain that the events became public knowledge, given the number of people involved and the not-too-discrete measures taken to isolate the family house. So we can be sure this wasn’t our world.)
Read this before you plagerizer you.
The planet of the Whills.
http://brookfieldaazk.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/photo-3.jpg
Mark feat.beard looking great.
Maybe Skywalkers home?
leprechauns, definitely! I think I spotted a cobbler’s last lying on the ground in one of the photos.
Cikatro Vizago: new Rebels character rumored soon to be revealed! Apparently he’s a crime Lord on Lothal.
http://www.starwarsunderworld.com/2014/07/rumor-new-star-wars-rebels-character.html
I say this planet is where Lando’s new venture is. The little people are Ugnaughts since Lando had them in Cloud City. Just a stop off on the search for Luke Skywalker and a cameo for Billy Dee…haha
I quite honestly think Billy D will be in the movie, but his inclusion will be a complete surprise to the fans.
A Billy D cameo could actually fit, and would be a welcome nod. I wouldn’t want him to have a big part at all, but if he comes in with a twinkle in his eye, and says something classically dashing, I think a lot of fans would really appreciate it. I mean why not revel in what this movie is, a sequel. And plus can really Billy D do any wrong?
Nice looking sets.
Since Andy Serkis and his motion capture company are working on this film Even if there were Ewoks no one would have to see a costume as that would be added later.
I vote ET