What started out on Sunday as an optimistic rumour that Star Wars Episode 7 is set to shoot in Abu Dhabi is seemingly gathering traction as the week progresses. A conversation with a very big name in the local industry brought the revelation that he’d known about the shoot “for ages,” but was unable to comment further, while today we’ve had first hand reports that production crew have been hired by an unnamed production company.
We contacted Dubai’s biggest production companies, but were told they’re not involved as “it’s all happening in Abu Dhabi,” which seems a tacit confirmation that it is at least happening, if ever there was one.
All roads seem to lead to twofour54, surely the only production company in Abu Dhabi big enough to take on this kind of project, but our (pretty high level) sources there claimed to be unaware of any such shoot. When contacted on an official level, twofour54 declined to comment, which on a surprising level sits up there with death and taxes. And is not a denial, even though we asked for one.
Needless to say, we’ll be following this very closely over the next few days.
