Where is Star Wars' 'Tatooine' filmed? Know the real locations of the desert planet

Star Wars is one of biggest franchises around world. Tatooine is a popular fictional desert planet that appears several times in various Star Wars projects including recent Disney Plus series, Mandalorian. Being a opera franchise, it relies on CGI and VFX for various section. But many places in movies/series are actually real locations, including Tatooine.

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Where is Star Wars’ Tatooine filmed?

Star Wars’ fictional planet Tatooine was extensively filmed in Republic of Tunisia. It is located in Maghreb region of rth Africa. Several locations of country were used to shoot different places in movies.

Tatooine filming location

Ksar Hadada was where Tatooine: Mos Espa slave quarters were shot. It is a vill in south-eastern Tunisia. Ksar Ouled Soltane was where or slave quarter was filmed, it is situated 30km south of Tataouine.

Mos Espa street set, where Qui-Gol Jinn and Darth Maul had a lightsabre duel, was shot in Onk Jemal, Tozeur. location of Lars homestead in Tatooine was Matmata, a small Berber speaking town in sourn Tunisia. Chott el Djerid near Nefta was also used as Lars homestead. La Grande Dune, Tunisia is place where Tatooine desert was shot for landing area of escape pod of R2-D2 and C-3PO.

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Filming in Tunisia

Ajim, Island of Djerba, Tunisia, was used to filmed Tatooine: Mos Eisley port. Tosche Station of fictional town was shot at Sidi Jemour, Island of Djerba. Shubiel Gorge, Sidi Bouhlel (or Sidi Bou Helal), is place that was turned into Tatooine canyon. Luke Skywalker was attacked at canyon by Tusken Raiders, even R2-D2 was abducted by Jawas at place.

Although Tunisia acts as major location where Tatooine was filmed, a few different places were also used. Several Tatooine desert scenes were shot at Death Valley National Park, California, United States of America. road to Jabba’s Palace in Tatooine was filmed at Twenty-Mule Team Canyon, Death Valley, California, USA. shooting of exteriors of Tatooine took place at Buttercup Valley, Yuma Desert, Arizona, United States.

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Tatooine was first seen in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. 1977 film features location as home planet of Star Wars Trilogy protagonist, Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill. Spoiler Alert! it is also birthplace of his far, Anakin Skywalker who later becomes Darth Vader. Shots of binary sunset over Tatooine desert are considered to be an iconic im of film series.

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