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CANTO BIGHT

s The Last Jedi production designer Rick Heinrichs points challenge for Heinrichs and the rest of the crew, both in terms of design
out, the franchise has frequently made use of otherworldly and concept. “I was unsure how we’d take a real environment with
natural locations on Earth as stand-ins for planets in a architecture that has a familiarity about it and turn that into something
Agalaxy far, far away; but it’s rare for a Star Wars production that is part of the Star Wars galaxy,” says the production designer.

to film in an urban environment. Daring to go to the kinds of places Meeting these challenges certainly paid off, Dubrovnik’s polished
previous Star Wars fi lms have seldom trod, for 10 days in March 2016 streets, swooping fortress walls and narrow alleyways offering all
a splinter unit from The Last Jedi made their base in the medieval city the romance that the filmmakers desired for Finn and Rose Tico’s

of Dubrovnik—a UNESCO World Heritage Site that would double as exotic adventure. Particularly impressive was the reflective quality of
the casino city Canto Bight. the streets, which were built with stacked and dressed stone, and the
Situated on the Dalmatian coast in southern Croatia, overlooking the way the light was bouncing off of everything—a boon for director of
Adriatic Sea, this Pearl of the Adriatic as it’s known is arguably one of photography Steve Yedlin, who made full use of the environment to

the world’s most magnificent walled cities. As such, it presented quite a create a unique and innovative look of the sequence. a
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