Star Wars: Episode VII will return to Tatooine (but not that Tatooine)

But according to THR, this will be a new Tatooine, one that doesn’t involve putting the entire film crew in a nation currently rocked by political unrest, terrorism, and kidnapping. In a bit of ironic timing, Tunisia’s surely beleaguered tourism ministry just announced a new, international “Save Mos Espa” campaign, hoping to raise funds to help dig the home of Anakin Skywalker out of encroaching sand dunes—an operation even the ministry says would only preserve it for another eight to 10 years. If you would like to donate your money toward fighting the literal sands of time, all in order to save the house where you first learned Baby Darth Vader built C3P0, the campaign has a crowdsourcing page. You could even get your name on a plaque, which will eventually be buried under sand.

As for Episode VII’s new Tatooine in Morocco, it’s obviously unclear as yet why the Star Wars characters would return, again, to the desert planet, besides the fact that they all do eventually—even when it’s an incredible coincidence, such as the fact that Jabba The Hutt just so happens to live on the same, easily set-dressed planet where Luke Skywalker grew up. This after he was placed there under the watchful eye of Obi-wan Kenobi, who decided the best place to hide him in the entire galaxy was to take him to where his father also grew up and still had family, even when there are presumably thousands of other planets with more hospitable single biomes. It’s possible Luke will finally make good on his 30-plus year journey to pick up some power converters.