Star Wars City Doomed By Sand Dunes

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 21, 2013 @03:04PM from the and-nothing-was-lost dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The buildings and set of the fictional city Mos Espa are set to be swallowed by migrating sand dunes in the Tunisian desert. From the article: 'Ralph Lorenz, from Johns Hopkins University, US, together with Jason Barnes, from the University of Idaho, and Nabil Gasmi, of the University of Sousse, Tunisia, visited the Mos Espa site in 2009, and noted that part of a nearby set used in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope had already been overrun. Using satellite images of the site, they were able to determine the speed of dune movement, which is approaching the buildings once inhabited by such luminaries as Anakin, his slave owner Watto, and rival podracer Sebulba.'"

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Why was the set left? by thorbsd · 2013-07-21 15:18 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why was the set left in the desert? Was the film crew asked to leave it, or could they just be bothered to spend money removing their trash when they were finished shooting?
Re:those horrible prequels by Tablizer · 2013-07-21 19:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

Bad StarWars is like bad pizza; it's better than no pizza and I still finish it.

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