Star Wars Was Going To Be Filmed In Space But It Never Happened

A galaxy far, far away almost had a stand-in our actual galaxy.

In 2016, when he was still attached to direct Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Colin Trevorrow told a crowd at the Sundance Film Festival that he had designs on shooting scenes for the flick in actual space.

Now, before you suggest that Trevorrow must have been... well, off his rocker to suggest such a thing, it may be helpful to know that it's not like no movie cameras have ever made the journey to the final frontier. Most notably, the Warner Bros. documentary Hubble 3D, which followed a group of astronauts on a delicate mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, used IMAX cameras to film space-based scenes. Of course, these were shot aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis and not just, you know, in open space but the fact remains that movie cameras did indeed leave our atmosphere to shoot scenes that we Earthlings would later watch with our butts planted firmly in movie theater seats.

Apparently hoping to add a degree of realism to a series in which ancient orders of mystical space knights fight each other with laser swords, Trevorrow informed the crowd that not only was he hoping to shoot in space, but that he had actually submitted a request to the International Space Station to haul IMAX cameras on up there and start filming scenes. Strangely, he had not heard anything in response.

The director admitted:

"I asked the question, 'Is it possible for us to shoot IMAX film plates in actual space for Star Wars?' I haven't gotten an answer yet, but they've shot IMAX in space!"

While that is true, we hear that special effects houses are doing really incredible things these days, and that the starry void is fairly easily rendered on screen with much less hassle and expense than it would take to get a film crew onto the ISS for a month or so. One could argue that Trevorrow had a strangely literal sense of what it would take to make a Star Wars movie, and that argument would be bolstered by remarks he went on to make about his intention to shoot Rise of Skywalker on film, rather than digital. Keep watching the video to see that Star Wars was going to be filmed in space but it never happened!

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