Though the setting is an alien planet, it would still have to be shot somewhere on Earth, which could very well be in the Australian Outback, since it would be a desert at least in the area of the crash and the town.

And then, even movies that are set in specific places aren’t always shot in those places for various reasons. Raiders of the Lost Ark is set in Egypt but was shot in Tunisia, because at the time that was cheaper. The scenes in Peru at the beginning of the movie are Hawaii. Peter Jackson built Times Square, and a few other parts of NYC for King Kong on the backlot of Stonestreet Studios in Wellington, New Zeeland. That was cheaper than going to the US, getting permission, closing down Times Square for weeks (or however long it took to shoot those scenes,) and make them look like 1933 instead of 2005. And then they only built the?ground level of the buildings, everything from the first floor up is CGI.

This story could be done economically, and still be SciFi. Only the shots of space ships moving would have to be CGI. The way I imagine it the story would start with the ship already on the ground, after the crash and the Marine walking away from it. The crash would occur in flashbacks, and through the flight recorder ? I had the notion today that this could be something everybody tries to get since it contains evidence the ship was shot down. ? The ship on the ground and the mining town would probably rather be matte paintings. Sets could be modular and easy to reconfigure, and re-used for other productions.