The Last Jedi Scenes Shot in IMAX

Indiana Jones 5 and several other films are also included in a renewed deal between Disney and IMAX.

By Alex Gilyadov

Disney has announced that Star Wars: The Last Jedi has been partially shot in IMAX.

Director Rian Johnson has captured specific sequences from the film using IMAX cameras, which will provide an exclusive aspect ratio and an increased image quality. J.J. Abrams also partially shot The Force Awakens in IMAX. At least part of the IMAX footage in The Last Jedi was shot on location in Ireland, presumably on the island of Skellig Michael for the First Jedi Temple scenes involving Luke (and glimpsed briefly at the end of The Force Awakens).

Along with The Last Jedi, several other Disney films will also be shot in IMAX as part of an extended multi-picture deal between Disney and IMAX that will run until 2019. The deal includes films such as Lucasfilm's untitled fifth Indiana Jones movie, Star Wars: Episode IX, Beauty and the Beast, A Wrinkle in Time, Mulan, The Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, Wreck-It Ralph 2, Black Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Infinity War, the untitled Han Solo Star Wars anthology film, and the untitled fourth Avengers movie.

The next Disney film is Beauty and the Beast, which hits theaters March 17, 2017, while The Last Jedi comes out on December 15, 2017. Read about why the "Jedi" in The Last Jedi is actually plural.

An IMAX camera on location in Ireland for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Alex Gilyadov is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter. 

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