Over at Coffee With Kenobi, guest blogger Randy Hutchinson takes a look at the real world history of Jedha city, which reveals some fascinating nuggets and links.
According to Jordana Finkel in The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jedha drew from real world locations such as Jordan’s Wadi Rock as well as other sites in North Africa. While the visuals of Jordan’s Wadi Rum area are obvious (the crew shot on location there) when Saw Gerrera’s crew is bringing Bodhi “I’m the pilot” Rook to the partisans’ base, the focus on this article is the city itself.
Mountaintop fortresses and cities aren’t limited to just places of fiction. Throughout world history there are examples of mountain fortresses and cities — Machu Picchu being one of the most famous. However, according to Doug Chiang, Executive Creative Director for Rogue One, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Masada served, in part, as the basis for Jedha City.
