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Jakku
Star Wars location
Imperial Star Destroyer Graveyard on Jakku, with the Millennium Falcon and a First Order TIE fighter, from The Force Awakens (2015)
First appearanceStar Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Created by
GenreScience fiction
In-universe information
Type
Race(s)
  • Teedo
  • Uthuthma
Locations
  • Tuanul Village
  • Niima Outpost

Jakku is a fictional desert planet in the Star Wars universe, first featured in the 2015 film The Force Awakens. Remote, lawless, and inhospitable, it is the homeworld of sequel trilogy main character Rey, played by Daisy Ridley, and Aftermath character Gallius Rax, both members of the Palpatine family. The film focuses on two distinct localities, Tuanul Village and Niima Outpost, near a starship graveyard.

The planet is also depicted in novels such as Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End (2017).

Appearances

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Rub' al Khali desert, surrounded by Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The Jakku sequences were filmed in the UAE section near the Liwa Oasis, which is under the governance of Abu Dhabi.

Film

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The planet was first seen in the November 2014 teaser trailer for the first film of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, The Force Awakens (2015).[1][2][3] The film's director and co-writer, J. J. Abrams, first mentioned its name at Star Wars Celebration in April 2015, identifying Jakku as the setting in the trailers and revealing that it is where the character Rey (Daisy Ridley) lives.[1]

Jakku is a major setting in The Force Awakens[4] and its novelization.[5][6] The home world of main character Rey, it is a harsh and inhospitable desert planet on the outskirts of the Unknown Regions.[7] In the film, Resistance X-wing pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) comes to Jakku seeking vital information held by explorer Lor San Tekka (Max von Sydow).[8] Poe is captured by the oppressive First Order but leaves the data behind with his astromech droid, BB-8. He escapes with the help of turncoat stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega), but Poe is presumed dead when their stolen TIE fighter crashes in the desert. Meanwhile, BB-8 befriends local scavenger Rey; pursued by the First Order, she and Finn flee Jakku with the droid aboard the Millennium Falcon. Later in the film, Rey has a vision of being left on the planet as a child and being taken by Unkar Plutt after touching Luke Skywalker's old lightsaber.

The planet appears briefly in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Rey has a flashback-like vision of her parents leaving her on the planet before they were killed. The planet also appears in a montage alongside Bespin and Endor after the film’s climactic battle on Exegol between the Resistance and the Sith Eternal; a burning Resurgent-class Star Destroyer can be seen falling behind an old Imperial-class Star Destroyer (one shown in The Force Awakens) as the galaxy rises up against the First Order.

The scenes on Jakku were filmed in the UAE section of the Rub al Khali desert, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.[9][10] In early concept development stages, the planet was conceived as a "junk planet" which would have "wreckage from the previous Star Wars movies".[11] Unused designs for Tatooine by original trilogy concept artist Ralph McQuarrie were repurposed for exteriors.[12] Some have criticized Jakku as being essentially the same planet as Tatooine, the home world of both Luke and Anakin Skywalker (from the original and prequel trilogy, respectively), with only its name being unique.[13]

Literature

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Jakku was first introduced in two novels released on September 4, 2015: Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath (2015) and Claudia Gray's Lost Stars. The latter depicts some of the Battle of Jakku, the final confrontation between the forces of the Galactic Empire and the New Republic over the planet.[1] The battle is also depicted in the final book in Wendig's Aftermath trilogy, Empire's End (2017),[14][15] which explains that Palpatine kept an observatory on the planet to map the Unknown Regions, overseen by Palpatine's own adoptive son and Jakku native Gallius Rax, where in the event of his death, the Empire would reform as the First Order.[16] The reference book The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary[broken anchor] establishes that this battle occurs one year and four days after the Battle of Endor depicted in Return of the Jedi, and is the last major stand of the Empire and battle of the Galactic Civil War. 29 years later, around the time of The Force Awakens, the debris field in the desert is called the Starship Graveyard.[17]

Jakku appears or is mentioned in multiple other works, including Rey's Survival Guide (2015) and The Weapon of a Jedi (2015) by Jason Fry, and the 2015 short stories "High Noon on Jakku" (2015) and "All Creatures Great and Small" by Landry Q. Walker.[1]

Video games

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The 2015 action shooter video game Star Wars Battlefront features downloadable content (DLC) titled Battle of Jakku,[18][19] which includes two multiplayer maps set on the planet.[20] Jakku also features in the single-player campaign of the 2017 sequel, Star Wars Battlefront II, as well as a non-DLC multiplayer map titled Jakku: The Graveyard, with 4 different gamemode variants. Jakku is also a location in the two Lego-themed action-adventure video games; 2016's Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and 2022's Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.[21]

The planet is featured in a Lego Star Wars playset called Encounter on Jakku.[22][23]

Theme park attraction

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Jakku appears in the Disney Parks and Resorts attraction Star Tours – The Adventures Continue.[24][25]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Young, Bryan (December 14, 2015). "Star Wars: Everything We Know About the Planet Jakku (So Far)". HowStuffWorks. Retrieved March 16, 2017.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "Watch the Incredible Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer". Rolling Stone. November 28, 2014. Archived from the original on February 13, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  3. ^ Lewis, Andy (December 1, 2014). "Trailer Report: Star Wars Teaser Beats Age of Ultron In Debut". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  4. ^ De Semlyen, Phil (November 26, 2015). "Exclusive: Empire reveals names of new Star Wars planets". Empire. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
  5. ^ Shepherd, Jack (January 7, 2016). "Star Wars: The Force Awakens: 16 questions the novel answers". The Independent. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  6. ^ Taylor, Chris (December 29, 2015). "27 Star Wars: The Force Awakens questions answered by the novel". Mashable. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  7. ^ "Databank: Jakku". StarWars.com. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  8. ^ Truitt, Brian (January 17, 2016). "Exclusive: Star Wars: Poe Dameron comic book debuts in April". USA Today. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  9. ^ Ratcliffe, Amy (August 29, 2016). "8 Things You Might Not Know About the Creatures of The Force Awakens". StarWars.com.
  10. ^ Oswald, Anjelica (January 6, 2016). "The exotic real-life locations where scenes in the new Star Wars were shot". Business Insider. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  11. ^ Szostak, Phil (2015). The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Abrams Books. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-4197-1780-2.
  12. ^ "How original Ralph McQuarrie concept art inspired Star Wars: The Force Awakens". Sideshow Collectibles. December 15, 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  13. ^ Sherlock, Ben (September 30, 2021). "The Force Awakens: Jakku Should've Just Been Tatooine". Game Rant. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  14. ^ Trendacosta, Katharine (February 22, 2017). "Everything That Aftermath: Empire's End Reveals About the New Star Wars Universe". Gizmodo. Archived from the original on December 10, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  15. ^ Colbert, Stephen M. (March 7, 2017). "Star Wars: What's So Special About Jakku?". Screen Rant. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  16. ^ Ratcliffe, Amy (June 2, 2017). "The Possibilities of the Unknown Regions in STAR WARS". Nerdist. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  17. ^ Hidalgo, Pablo (2015). Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary. New York, N.Y.: DK. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-1-4654-3816-4.
  18. ^ Dyer, Mitch (April 17, 2015). "Star Wars Celebration: Free Battle of Jakku Battlefront DLC revealed". IGN. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  19. ^ "How to get Battle of Jakku DLC". Electronic Arts. April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  20. ^ "Star Wars Battlefront Jakku Pre-Order Offer". Electronic Arts. April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  21. ^ Plunkett, Luke (January 2, 2016). "LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is Coming Soon". Kotaku. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  22. ^ "LEGO Star Wars Summer 2016 Sets: Encounter on Jakku!". BrickToyNews.com. February 24, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  23. ^ "Encounter on Jakku (75148)". Brickset.com. 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  24. ^ Glover, Erin (September 24, 2015). "Details on Season of the Force, Coming November 16 to Disneyland Park in California". Disney Parks Blog. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  25. ^ Martin, Hugo (November 14, 2017). "Disneyland is adding 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' scenes to its Star Tours ride". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
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