Product Code Database
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 character Gallius Rax. The film focuses on two distinct localities, Tuanul Village and Niima Outpost, near a Star Destroyer graveyard.
The planet is also depicted in novels such as Chuck Wendig's (2017).
Jakku is a major setting in The Force Awakens and . The home world of main character Rey, it is a harsh and inhospitable desert planet on the outskirts of the Unknown Regions. In the film, Resistance X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) comes to Jakku seeking vital information held by explorer Lor San Tekka (Max von Sydow). Poe is captured by the oppressive First Order but leaves the data behind with his astromech droid, . 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, 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 (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. In early concept development stages, the planet was conceived as a "junk planet" which would have "wreckage from the previous Star Wars movies". Unused designs for Tatooine by original trilogy concept artist Ralph McQuarrie were repurposed for exteriors. 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.
Jakku appears or is mentioned in multiple other works, including (2015) and (2015) by Jason Fry, and the 2015 short stories "High Noon on Jakku" (2015) and "All Creatures Great and Small" by Landry Q. Walker.
The planet is featured in a Lego Star Wars playset called Encounter on Jakku.
|
|
