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Merrion Street writes:

“Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD, has today welcomed the launch of Tourism Ireland’s phase two of its special Star Wars campaign, targeting fans of the science fiction franchise around the world. It involves a specially-commissioned ‘behind-the-scenes’ film, created during filming in 2014 on Skellig Michael…”

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Minister Donohoe & Tourism Ireland unveil ‘behind-the-scenes’ film; Phase 2 of Star Wars campaign (Merrion Street)

Earlier: The Force Sleeps

 

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 Skellig Michael island, Co Kerry, July 2014

 So we can afford to give a hugely wealthy film production company free use of a State asset, namely an Air Corps helicopter, for the filming of Star Wars on Skellig Michael (“Star Wars given free use of Defence Forces resources”).

The usual justification for such Government largesse is that it will attract tourists to Ireland. To see what?

Well, not the outstanding ethnographic collection of the National Museum for example, as it can’t afford to display it, nor the closed George Bernard Shaw Museum, and probably not the archives of the Jewish Museum for much longer, and most definitely not a Rubens at Russborough House.

It is time for the Minister for the Arts Heather Humphreys to start typing some invoices and fully realise the value of our cultural capital, as I am sure Disney’s accountants do.

Erica Devine
Sandycove,
Co Dublin.

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Previously: Darth Looks

Pic: Sheila Larkin

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The Latino Review writes:

Domhnall Gleeson, whose resemblance to Mark Hamill had many theorizing a Skywalker generational line, is not playing Luke’s kid. Luke has no kids. He’s been a captive since we last saw him.
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I’m starting to feel weird about Skelling Michael Island, that pretty place in Kerry, Ireland where they filmed a few days in late July with Mark Hamill and probably Daisy Ridley. I’m starting to feel weird about it because they’re going back to shoot there in November – local vendors have already been contracted out. And November in Kerry does NOT look like late July in Kerry, this landscape will be grey and dark…
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I’m hearing Skellig Michael Island is the location for the Sith Homeworld. Like in the Expanded Universe, the Sith were founded by a Jedi who practiced moral relativism thousands of years ago (a long LONG time ago in a galaxy far, far away). He met up with Plagueis and started going by the Sith name Darth Ruin. He split off to unite the Sith tribes under the Dark Side of The Force. I don’t know if all of that is going to be in the movie, but it’s going to get called back as we’ll have a new Ruin in the movie, whomever fancies himself the biggest threat (might this be my “Sith Inquisitor?”).

“Now, we at LR know that the Sith Homeworld was in the re-tooled Michael Ardnt draft of the script, so this next part might be old info we’re getting pushed back at us, but: Skellig Michael Island is the Sith Homeworld, the stone hut ruins on that island are a control center and the planet itself is somehow the weapon.“

Anyone?

Star Wars: Ruin, Ruins and Ruining (Latino Review)

“Star Wars” Returning To Skellig Michael? (Dark Horizons)

Previously: Wookie Here

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Thanks Carlos the Cloud City Dweller

Pic: Via Laurence Mackin