Reports: Lucasfilm is developing a standalone Obi-Wan Kenobi 'Star Wars' movie

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Reports: Lucasfilm is developing a standalone Obi-Wan Kenobi 'Star Wars' movie



A standalone Star Wars film that includes the lightsaber-wielding master of the Force, compete by thespian in patron saint Lucas' original Star Wars trio and by Ewan McGregor within the prequels, is within the earliest stages of development at Lucasfilm, in step with The Hollywood Reporter and point. Sir Leslie Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) is "in early talks" to write down and direct, those sites say.

In the original 1977 Star Wars, Kenobi became Luke Skywalker's (Mark Hamill) mentor on their quest to rescue blue blood Leia (Carrie Fisher) on the Death Star — that LED to Kenobi's death at the hands of Darth Vader. Guinness' character appeared as a useful phantasmal apparition within the next 2 films, 1980's The Empire Strikes Back and 1983's come back of the Jedi.

McGregor initial compete the younger version of the role in 1999's The Phantom Menace, that additionally introduced Liam Neeson as Kenobi's teacher Qui-Gon Jinn. In 2002's Attack of the Clones and 2005's Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan took young Jedi Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) below his wing before he ultimately turned to the Dark facet, betrayed Kenobi and have become Vader.

There are not any actors in situ however McGregor has long talked regarding going back to the role someday: in a very 2016 interview with atom smasher, he same he'd "very very similar to to do" a Kenobi solo film.

This would be the third Star Wars Story project — separate from Star Wars heroic tale episodes like 2015's The Force Awakens and therefore the upcoming The Last Jedi  (in theaters Dec. 15) — to tackle a personality or storyline from the the age of Lucas' original films. Rogue One, that focused on a Rebel Alliance group stealing the secret Death Star plans, was set right before the events of 1977's Star Wars, whereas director Ron Howard is filming a dynasty Solo standalone for unharness next year, with Alden Ehrenreich as a younger version of Harrison Ford's picture runner.
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