Star Wars cast arrive in Ireland to film Episode VIII

The Unesco protected island of Skellig Michael, off the Kerry coast, was used to shoot the final scene of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, when Luke Skywalker was finally re-discovered living like one of the real, hermit Irish monks that lived on the rock.

Episode VIII will include scenes from a number of locations across Ireland, including a Jedi temple, which is being built near the Dingle peninsula in Co Kerry.

He’s been to the desert in Tatooine, the ice planet of Hoth, and had a hand in the destruction of two Death Stars, and now Luke Skywalker (also known as Mark Hamill) and some of the rest of the leading cast of Star Wars: Episode VIII have landed in Northern Ireland.