Star Wars fans are in for a treat as the Star Wars News website dished out some details regarding the location of the upcoming movie. As per Kerry's Eye [an Irish newspaper that gave out the details] some of the production staff were spotted within the area. [Mirror] They then reported it on their website stating:
A huge production crew for Star Wars VIII - the sequel to the film shot on the World Heritage Site last year - arrived in South Kerry on Tuesday and visited Skellig Michael... The director [Rian Johnson], producer [Ram Bergman], and head of photography [Steve Yedlin] for the blockbuster film - along with up to 30 pre-production crew, were ferried on to the island at around 2.30pm. The crew brought no equipment on board the boats with them, but it is understood that they were walking the island and taking pictures, and spent a number of hours surveying the area.
As per the website however the scouting happened 10 days ago and some of 'The Force Awakens' crew were absent on the scene, implying that this isn't a reshoot. As per the previous reports island visitors was able to take a few snaps of the set up on the island. Ronan Nissenbaum managed to give out a few details regarding the upcoming movie.
Tents and tarps full of equipment were all over the island completely unguarded apart from one tent which lay on top of a fake sandy coloured rock built for the filming... My guess is Luke will be standing on that tomorrow. Talking to people who I can't name as they were afraid of getting in trouble, we discovered that there were definitely droids already locked away on the island (presumably BB-8 or R2-D2 or both, but couldn't confirm because they hadn't seen any of the movies). Along with the droids were weapons, presumably a lightsaber or two. We also discovered that the set had been described as a "Jedi Monastery", (although I don't know the validity of that) and scenes were to have wind and rain machines, which we later discovered and took photos that you can see here.
The photos can be seen on the Star Wars 7 News website.
