Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland 181
First time accepted submitter wijnands (874114) writes Star Wars crews have started filming on the small Irish Island of Skellig Michael. This island, listed as a Unesco world heritage site, features the remains of a 6th century monastery as well as breeding populations of puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots and kittiwakes. Currently the Irish navy has deployed one vessel to maintain a two-mile exclusion zone around the island. Unesco is now concerned about what is going on the island, which is only visited 13 times a year by tourist groups, and has asked the Irish government for an explanation.
Today I Learnt that... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Today I Learnt that... (Score:5, Funny)
Seems to me that they have a nice cache of Star Wars alien/animal names all provided free of charge by the nice folks in Ireland...
A herd of guillemots sure sounds scarier to me than a herd of nerfs. And I'm sure it's a total pain when your inside an asteroid and a bunch of filthy kittiwakes start chewing on your power system. And of course storm troopers riding around on storm petrels is too obvious to pass up!
Quote from the article (Score:5, Funny)
"We can't tell what the filming of Star Wars on the site will do to the wildlife."
I can see a whole lot of lawsuits from all of the puffins, manx shearwaters, storm petrels, guillemots, and kittiwakes who don't want to appear in a modern Star Wars film. Can't say I blame them, not after Episodes 1 through 3.
Re:Not filming in America anymore? (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks Obama!!!
Obama is also responsible for why you can't get a date.
These are not the filmmakers you are looking for. (Score:5, Funny)
worlds largest greenscreen (Score:5, Funny)
Of course they're filming in Ireland, its the worlds largest green screen.
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Disney's past their peak awfulness of the late 1990s and early 2000s
Weak-minded fool! They've used the Jedi mind trick on you!
Episode VII (Score:3, Funny)
Puffins attacked the craft services tent, allright (Score:5, Funny)
~ They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These tracks are side by side. Puffins always march single file to hide their numbers.
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Re:Today I Learnt that... (Score:5, Funny)
Many puffins died to bring us this information...
Re:It is more visited than 13 times per year... (Score:2, Funny)
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Leia is a Disney princess now.
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Re: Quote from the article (Score:4, Funny)
We have discovered an abnormally high number of dead wildlife surrounding the sites where the filming occurred. The bodies were discovered with wounds across their abdomens and a few animals were beheaded. After questioning the film crew we realized they were entirely unaware of the scenes that surround their scene. Upon reinvestigation of the sites where dead animals were found we further discovered branches that had been gnaws and scraped into crude sharp edge upon which traces of blood were discovered.
Based upon this evidence we have reached the concluse that the wildlife had committed ritual suicide after witnessing the horrible creation brought about by Disney. Since the culpability of Disney is unquestionable, we will be fining them $50,000.
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Re:It is more visited than 13 times per year... (Score:4, Funny)
There are 13 tour companies one can take to visit the island. The tours run each day during the summer but only once per day. So there are 13 boats of visitors per day for 5 months out of the year, not 13 visits per year total.
In a really good year here, we get about 10 days of summer.
Re:Quote from the article (Score:4, Funny)
Nature is not so fragile that a film crew will destroy an ecosystem just by walking around and filming a few scenes. They're under restrictions on what they can do (i.e. they're not going to be blowing up the island)
No point in watching this in the cinema then.