A new rumor popped up late yesterday, but it doesn’t look to be a gag: Badass Digest is reporting that Episode VII will begin filming on May 14th in Morocco. That could signal a return to Tatooine, instead of the politically-instable Tunisia, but it could also be a whole new planet.
(However, as Making Star Wars points out, Morocco was only a possible location for A New Hope. It was never actually used.)
Meanwhile, Jedi News has heard United Arab Emirates, which has some history with J.J. Abrams.
Can’t say where we got the info from (obviously) but we’re hearing it’s not Morocco but the UAE where shooting will start.
http://www.jedinews.co.uk/news/news.aspx?newsID=16196
Bad Robot shot there for Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and have relationships in place with the authorities. Only time will tell, but 14th May certainly seems to be the start date for the 1st Unit. Exciting much?
Argo?
Star Wars changed its Facebook cover photo this afternoon to the Big Three in the hanger scene on Yavin IV after they returned from destroying the Death Star. Seems like they did that for a reason…
I doubt that has anything to do with it. They change it every Wednesday; People were trying to claim that meant ‘something’ was coming back when they started posting the vintage trailers (on Wednesdays.) It all came to nothing.