MALIN HEAD has just gone global – as filming begins on the next Star Wars movie begins today.
The mocked-up Millennium Falcon on a cliff in Co Donegal has featured in more than 700 publications in 78 countries around the world….and the film won’t be released for another eighteen months!
Truck after truck after truck rolled into Malin Head yesterday, prompting local caravan park owner Ali Farren to comment: “Maybe they’re doing a re-make of Convoy.”
Security is tight in the area but that hasn’t stopped fans of the film franchise descending on the area in the hope of catching a glimpse of the movie being made.
Most of it is being shot in studios in London.
But Donegal will see a tourism benefit not just this weekend – but for years to come
Jim Mullin of Malin Head Community Association said: “In the last few weeks, it’s incredible, the amount of traffic on the road coming here, up to the most northerly point in Ireland, just to see where it’s being made.
“We can only imagine what it will be like once they start filming here.”
Location shots will take place today and test filming begins tomorrow.
Crews are planning to work from 8am to 9pm right through until Sunday.
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