I’ve actually seen this suggested in the tags a couple of times and I’ll say that yeah, it does look like it’s Poe/Oscar next to Finn/John in the first blurry photo. So your theory that this is them either leaving or arriving is definitely plausible.
Another interesting thing in this context is that someone spotted a mock up of the Falcon – its cockpit anyway – in Black Park. Black Park is a forest not far from London where Star Wars has shot before. It was used for some of the Endor scenes in RotJ and it was outdoors Takodana in TFA as well.
So there’s the possibility that we’ll be revisiting either of those places. Either way, it does lend some credence to the claim that there’s a jungle/forest planet in IX.
I would love it if it’s Yavin 4 and we get to see the Dameron farm and Kes. Realistically I think it’s likelier to be Batuu, which Disney is promoting hard as a location in their SW park and as the backdrop of Padmé’s adventures in the new Thrawn novel. I’ve also pointed out the similarities between Finn’s outfit here and Padmé’s in the novel’s poster, suggesting at the very least the climates of their respective locations are in a similar range.
I don’t know how convincingly Black Park would look as a jungle tbh. Yavin was always very convincingly a jungle planet, being shot in Guatemala when outdoor shots were used. But maybe.
Batuu definitely looks like a possibility. Even more interestingly the art I’ve seen of Batuu has both forest and grassy hilsides (and some very pointy mountains), so both Black Park and the scene shot yesterday might be from Batuu.
If it’s Batuu the pointy mountains will get CG’d in along with a bunch of other stuff, so it would work! In conjunction with the other discussion about the characters in the background possibly being Finn’s people, if that conjecture is true it would mean Disney is putting a lot of promotional weight behind Finn’s home planet. I mean I’d prefer a planet we already know for Finn’s origin *coughJedhacough* because Jesus isn’t it time to wrap things up and have callbacks and stuff, but this wouldn’t be bad either.
I’ve actually seen this suggested in the tags a couple of times and I’ll say that yeah, it does look like it’s Poe/Oscar next to Finn/John in the first blurry photo. So your theory that this is them either leaving or arriving is definitely plausible.
Another interesting thing in this context is that someone spotted a mock up of the Falcon – its cockpit anyway – in Black Park. Black Park is a forest not far from London where Star Wars has shot before. It was used for some of the Endor scenes in RotJ and it was outdoors Takodana in TFA as well.
So there’s the possibility that we’ll be revisiting either of those places. Either way, it does lend some credence to the claim that there’s a jungle/forest planet in IX.
I would love it if it’s Yavin 4 and we get to see the Dameron farm and Kes. Realistically I think it’s likelier to be Batuu, which Disney is promoting hard as a location in their SW park and as the backdrop of Padmé’s adventures in the new Thrawn novel. I’ve also pointed out the similarities between Finn’s outfit here and Padmé’s in the novel’s poster, suggesting at the very least the climates of their respective locations are in a similar range.
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