{"id":11454,"date":"2018-05-27T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T08:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2018-05-27T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T08:40:58","slug":"millennium-falcon-lands-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/millennium-falcon-lands-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Falcon Lands In Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai&#8217;s iconic landmark Burj Al Arab inspired Instagram artist Paperboyo (aka Rich McCor) to give the modern marvel\u00a0a Star Wars spin; depicting the Millennium Falcon spaceship \u2013 which appears in the recently released\u00a0<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; landing on the world&#8217;s most luxurious hotel&#8217;s helipad.<\/p>\n<p>Rich McCor comments on his work: &#8220;I&#8217;m a huge fan of both U.A.E architecture and Star Wars, so creating this bespoke artwork here in Dubai was a career highlight for me. Dubai has so many globally recognised landmarks and I enjoyed exploring the architecture \u2013 from Bur Dubai to Palm Jumeirah, to Dubai Marina. With such a rich landscape of varied architectural style, I was spoiled for choice as to which buildings to use for the Star Wars shots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>S<em>olo: A Star Wars Story<\/em>\u00a0is now showing in cinemas across the UAE \u2013 for more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwarssolo.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.starwarssolo.me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai&#8217;s iconic landmark Burj Al Arab inspired Instagram artist Paperboyo (aka Rich McCor) to give the modern marvel\u00a0a Star Wars spin; depicting the Millennium Falcon spaceship \u2013 which appears in the recently released\u00a0Solo: A Star Wars Story\u00a0&#8211; landing on the world&#8217;s most luxurious hotel&#8217;s helipad. Rich McCor comments on his work: &#8220;I&#8217;m a huge fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11456,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions\/11456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}