It sort of looks a little bit like Starfleet Academy.

I bet they'll do some filming in Tunisia.

...obviously.

For a different take on dessert terrain how about Utah:

For new places there is the suitably alien :

Kliluk Lake:

Socrotra Island :

This crystal cave in Mexico:

The catacombs of Paris :

Change the buildings and these slate cliffs at Blaenau-Ffestiniog look other worldly.

Maybe the best way to bury the past is to charge at it.

The Sun are already speculating about a possible location.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/4764010/Filming-of-Star-Wars-VII-to-be-in-a-disused-quarry-by-Bluewater-mall.html

Darth Mall *snigger*.

These do look like great places to film at for planets.

SilverWook said:

Those are some awesome locales, Bingowings! Isn't that crystal cave deadly hot inside though?

Background plates could be filmed in there for the cast to be dropped in via green screen.

It would probably be easier to use it as inspiration for a practical or virtual set though.

Some of these houses are pretty amazing.

Wherever they get tax incentives to make it cheaper probably.  Hopefully not Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

Although maybe some filmed in England on sound stages, not sure if they are still there after all these years. 

I mean the full intact stages they filmed the originals on.

Too many cheap movies and tv shows are done in Canada.  New Zealand is lord of the rings and hobbit used.

Not sure why i listed Australia.

skyjedi2005 said:

Wherever they get tax incentives to make it cheaper probably.  Hopefully not Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

Although maybe some filmed in England on sound stages, not sure if they are still there after all these years. 

I mean the full intact stages they filmed the originals on.

If memory serves Lucas and Spielberg tried to save them but thanks to Thatcher (if in doubt blame Maggie) there is now a Tesco supermarket where the Death Star hanger bay used to be.

Maybe that's why The Sun suspects they will film near a British shopping centre.

I don't think the Chemosphere would fit in Star Wars, personally. I've always wanted to get my way up there, though. Vasquez Rocks is a little too distinguishable for it as well... but maybe that's just because I saw it on a matte shot in Power Rangers one too many damn times.

I hope to see grungy, dirty locations. Everything in the prequels is too pretty and perfect.

Let's see more of that underworld. I've been checking some of the "safe for work porn" subreddits. Some great shots of villages, cities, countrysides, etc. in those pages.

One setting we haven't had in a SW movie yet - A CEMETERY. Shmi's grave doesn't count. Sorry I don't have specific names or locations - just a general environment idea.

Another idea - a gold mine!