In the first movie, scenes taking place on the desert world, Tatooine, were famously shot in Tunisia the fictional planet is even named after the Tunisian city of Tatouine as homage. Because the thing is, the franchise has always had a long, if not entirely comfortable, relationship with the Middle East. So heaven knows what they’d make of an entire column on the subject. Not much better were the scavenging, hustling Jawas, piloting a giant slave ship for robots around the dunes or the Mos Eisley Cantina, a bar drawn straight from the malaria-fevered imaginations of an old colonial soak returned from some mythical Kasbah in the mystical Orient. Even the Middle East’s favourite home-grown parody site, the Pan Arabia Enquirer, got in the action, deftly skewering the Facebook updates and tweets from UAE residents adamant that the sand dunes of Abu Dhabi commanded the starring role in the new teaser. This triggered everything from frame by frame breakdowns by respectable newspapers, to a deluge of parodies (the Lego version is a favourite while the George Lucas version will appeal to geeks).
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The teaser trailer hit our screens a full year before the movie itself is scheduled to be released.
Revitalised under the helm of JJ Abrams (Lost, the Star Trek reboots) and in the hands of Disney, the new movie is building its hype very early indeed. It’s almost four decades since George Lucas redefined blockbuster cinema with the original Star Wars – and despite his own attempts to undermine his legacy with a trio of poorly conceived prequels – the juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down. The buzz on the internet surrounding the new Star Wars trailer is showing that the franchise is assuredly a force to outmatch cat videos or even Kim Kardashian. What’s surprising is that it was just one and a half minutes long. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Saudi Arabia: Playing the long game list 2 of 4 Colombian artist Fernando Botero, ‘painter of our virtues’, dies aged 91 list 3 of 4 Dutch art detective recovers stolen Vincent van Gogh painting list 4 of 4 Middle East Roundup: Calligraffiti artist paints Gaza’s hope end of list
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