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Post by Admin on Aug 16, 2019 2:01:54 GMT
deadline.com/2019/08/ewan-mcgregor-obi-wan-kenobi-disney-plus-star-wars-1202669319/Ewan McGregor May Return As Obi-Wan Kenobi In Disney+ Series Ewan McGregor may be picking up his lightsaber again. The 48-year-old Scottish actor is in talks about reprising his role as the heartfelt but headstrong Jedi master known as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a yet-to-be-titled Disney+ series, Deadline has confirmed. Details about the series following the Jedi master are being kept under wraps. McGregor played the younger version of the wise but irascible Star Wars icon in the three prequel films: The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). McGregor also revisited the role to make a voice-only cameo in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Plans to produce a stand-alone Kenobi feature film morphed into the current plan for a big-budget series for Disney+, just as the discussion of a Boba Fett film gave way to the similarly spirited The Mandalorian series. It may sound like a demotion in status and priority (and a reaction to the disappointing returns on the Han Solo film) but Disney+ is a small-screen venture of colossal importance to Disney. The digital subscription service has become an all-hands-on-deck mission for Disney with a bevy of shows from Marvel Studios and major-budget original programming, such as the high-profile remake of The Lady and The Tramp. Disney+ plans are expected to be a core component of the on-stage preview presentations at Disney’s D23 Expo later this month in Anaheim. That programming will likely include the introduction of McGregor as a returning screen star in the Jedi universe. Alec Guinness introduced the role of Ben “Obi-Wan” Kenobi in 1977 in Star Wars, the original installment in George Lucas’ space opera, which was later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope. Kenobi was struck down in that first film during a heart-wrenching light saber confrontation with Darth Vader aboard the huge space station called the Death Star, but the old Jedi wizard returned as a disembodied voice or spectral vision in the film’s two mega-successful sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Guinness died in 2000 after a storied acting career that included roles in The Bridge on the River Kwai, Dr. Zhivago, Kind Hearts and Coronets, as well as Lawrence of Arabia, the David Lean-directed epic that both Lucas and Steven Spielberg have described as a North Star influence on their own bodies of work. By casting Guinness, Lucas wisely imported the gravitas of that epic career into his Jedi universe but the actor himself was famously unimpressed with the filmmaker’s interstellar saga, which the British stage veteran dismissed as “fairy tale rubbish.” McGregor inherited the beloved role with all the major pressure and smothering legacy that goes with any generational shift in the fantasy saga, which long ago transcended the status of blockbuster brand to become a quasi-religion (and pathological retail obsession) for millions of fans. But McGregor delivered in a big way, adding dimension and depth to his character even when the wonky dialogue did him no favors on either front. McGregor had made a name for himself already with memorable turns in compelling indie fare like Trainspotting, Brassed Off, and Shallow Grave, but the 1999 global relaunch of Star Wars took him to a new strata in his screen career. Without his Jedi robes, he also added notable successes with films such as Moulin Rouge, Black Hawk Down, Angels & Demons, The Ghost Writer, Beginners, and Christopher Robin. This year McGregor will be seen in the nefarious role of Black Mask in the Birds of Prey film and in horror sequel Doctor Sleep, in which he portrays Danny Torrance, the grown-up survivor of the Overlook Hotel massacre depicted in The Shining. All Star Wars films will be available on the Disney+ platform. The new Star Wars with McGregor series would join the previously announced The Mandalorian from Jon Favreau and starring Pedro Pascal. That series takes place years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a lone Mandalorian gunfighter on the volatile rim planets beyond the reaches of law and order. The bounty hunter series will debut on Nov. 12, the Disney+ launch date. Disney+ will also have a Star Wars spinoff series starring Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk reprising their Rogue One characters Cassian Andor and K-2S0. Stephen Schiff will serve as showrunner.
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2019 16:25:53 GMT
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-will-obi-wan-kenobi-series-include-darth-maul-1232687'Star Wars': What Will Inspire Obi-Wan Kenobi Series? AUGUST 17, 2019 6:15AM by Richard Newby Could 'Unforgiven' or 'The Untouchables' be reference points for the Ewan McGregor-led Disney+ show? There were those who believed it would never happen, but as we know, “only a Sith deals in absolutes.” Star Wars fans were able to check another box off their wish list Thursday with the news of an Obi-Wan Kenobi series on the streaming service, Disney +. Long desired and rumored, the Obi-Wan project marks the third live-action Star Wars series on Disney+, following the announcements of The Mandalorian and the yet untitled Cassian Andor series. Ewan McGregor is set to reprise the role, originated by Alec Guinness in 1977, for the fourth time. Although the wise Jedi master hasn’t been seen on film since Revenge of the Sith (2005), the gaps in Obi Wan’s story have already begun filling in on the small screen within the canon series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels. And Star Wars novels and comics have woven together a relatively comprehensive narrative. But as we’ve come to learn with Star Wars, there are always more stories to be told. Short of a live-action adaptation of Kenobi’s adventures existing in animation and on the page, what can we expect the Disney+ series to explore? While details are scarce due to the series being in the early stages of development, it’s presumed that McGregor’s Obi-Wan reprisal will center on the character sometime after the events of Revenge of the Sith. It’s not inconceivable to think that, given the massive budgets Disney+ has acquired for their series, that we could see some de-aging effects done on McGregor in order to explore his early days as a Jedi apprentice, but exploring the Jedi’s lost days and transition into a hermit on Tatooine seem more compelling both narrative and performance wise. So what has Star Wars’ multimedia canon told us about Kenobi’s days following Order 66? As explored in the novel Ahsoka (2016) by E.K. Johnston, set 18 years before A New Hope, Kenobi spent much of his time mediating on the force during his early days of exile, and communing with the force spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn who convinces him to let go of his attachments. Kenobi becomes a monk like figure, keeping a distant eye on the young Luke Skywalker. While Luke's uncle Owen Lars forbade him from interacting with Luke, Kenobi kept a set of journals to impart on the young Skywalker for his future training. In these journals, the first of which revealed in Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi’s Star Wars No. 7: From the Journals of Old Ben Kenobi: "The Last of His Breed" (2015), Kenobi describes his battles against the growing threat of gangster Jabba the Hutt, who was extorting denizens with a water tax during a drought. Jabba, suspecting it was Owen Lars who fought back against his mob sent the Wookie bounty hunter Black Krrsantan after him, leading Kenobi to defend Lars and ignite his lightsaber for the first time in years, as seen in Star Wars No. 20 (2016) by Jason Aaron and Mike Mayhew. Within these journal entries, set about a decade before A New Hope, Kenobi becomes something of a gunslinger figure. The series could easily take place within this time period and follow Kenobi dealing with the growing crime of Mos Eisley while struggling to keep his Jedi past concealed in a reworking of Unforgiven (1992). There’s an eight-year gap between Kenobi’s battle against Black Krrsantan and his next appearance, two years before A New Hope. In the Star Wars Rebels episode “Twin Suns,” Darth Maul, who had returned during Star Wars: Clone Wars, journeys to Tatooine exact his revenge upon Kenobi. The episode marks the final battle between the two old foes and Obi-Wan strikes Maul down, and burns his body on a funeral pyre in a show of respect for the last remnant of his old life. There are perhaps few things as appealing for the Obi-Wan series as the possibility of seeing Kenobi and Maul battle once again. But does the canon permit a new story between the adversaries to be told? In the episode, Kenobi refers to Maul as his persistent foe. This could apply to The Clone Wars, but it’s possible that Kenobi and Maul had another meeting, or several, in the 17 years between their last duel in The Clone Wars and their final battle in Rebels. We already know from Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) that Maul resurfaced as the leader of Crimson Dawn 10 years before A New Hope. His ties to the crime syndicate and Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke) are too significant of developments within the Star Wars universe not to follow up on. While it’s always been assumed that Kenobi spent all of his time in exile in Tatooine, perhaps that isn’t the case. The events of Kenobi’s journals and Solo take place around the same time. It’s plausible that Kenobi’s disruption of Jabba’s criminal operation attract the attention of a larger crime syndicate run by Maul. Instead of the series simply being a Tatooine set tale inspired by Unforgiven, Kenobi could travel off world and dismantle Crimson Dawn. Essentially we could see an Obi-Wan takes on the mob tale akin to The Untouchables (1987) that not only gives fans a chance to see Kenobi and Maul battle in live-action again but also tie up the loose ends of Solo. An Obi-Wan series that features Ewan McGregor, Emilia Clarke, and Sam Witwer as Darth Maul seems like the kind of duel of fates fans would jump to lightspeed in order to witness.
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Post by Admin on Aug 25, 2019 1:33:28 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2019 21:52:42 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 1:12:10 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2020 2:34:02 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2020 2:34:30 GMT
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