Why Jakku is Jakku and not Tatooine (speculation)

What was the one thing he couldn't have?

 

The one thing he couldn't have is the 1977 movie. That's owned by FOX.. pereptually. Basically on 10/30/12 Iger owned this:

And supposedly this (why they didn't bother to use any of it is a fair critique of TFA IMHO):

And a future promise of aquiring these:

But he can never have this; FOX owns it, not LFL:

FOX execs will do 'Foxconn Bungie' before they give up this.
So, from a business standpoint, it's not a question of would Iger make a facsimile.. but when he instructed JJ to do it. Yes, Into Darkness is purportedly(again, didn't see it) a knockoff of TWoK, but Star Trek 2009 was a knockoff of.. what exactly? I've seen a $#!&ton of Trek as a kid and I still can't figure out what that story is supposedly a knockoff of. Where's V'ger in that movie? And that's the reboot movie, not Into Darkness.

 

Don't remember that. In the book The Art of TFA there are a lot of concept designs about Jakku being a water planet. There is a nice drawing of Rey/Kira diving in the seas of the planet and we can see a lot of imperial vehicles and ships sunked.

 

Yea, I really wish Jakku could have been a junk planet, as they called it in early concept art. If there was one thing I could change about the movie, it would honestly be this.

This planet seems so cool and original for Star Wars, a fitting location that really sets the tone for a galaxy 30 years after the war. It gives me a sort of Wall-E vibe.

 

Some pics that I took from my TFA book that shows some concepts for de junk planet. In all of them they worked with the idea of a sunked Death Star. The character we see diving is Kira, later they changed the name to Rey.

 

Great shots.,