Kenobi : Ewan McGregor in potential Kenobi movie OR series

Mhm, I doubt that. They aren't going to base the decision to make a movie on the reception of a completely different project.

 

If Disney cared about what the fans wanted films to be about we would not have Solo.

 

Solo "has" the potential to be decent and interesting but yeah Disney should ask the fans what they feel would do well as a standalone.

 

You don't want a movie that is deeply EU that the majority of the audience comes out thinking "Huh? What was that all about?"

I think I do.

 

Since there's no Star Wars Celebration in 2018, I'm going to guess that McGregor, Kennedy and the director will make an appearance at Comic Con this summer and drop the news of the Obi-Wan movie. Just a hunch.

Since the slight backlash from longtime fans and the low audience approval ratings of TLJ, it seems like LFL is in a rush to announce other projects not related to the main saga or Rian Johnson. Within 2 months of TLJ's release we have major announcements and the GoT guys launching a new film series and Favreau launching a VOD series, too, both without much detail or any timelines attached. That smells of an attempt at getting "good news" out there to change the SW headlines/conversation.

Kenobi announcement can't be far behind. It's probably a done deal already, they just want to wait till after Solo to drop the news. I think it'll be the next film after episode IX, unless Lando is a huge scene-stealer and they fast-track a minority-driven Lando spin-off. It would be a great idea because Glover is awesome, and considering the success of Black Panther, it would be a safe bet financially as well.

 

Kenobi strikes me as the most likely bet for 2020, especially since I think it will be the smallest scale Star Wars film to date.

 

Wasn't the third anthology supposed to be announced last June ? I think KK meant June 2018 not 2017.....

Of all the anthology movies they could do Kenobi would be the one I would look forward to the most....

 

With the announcements of the RJ Trilogy and Benioff/Weiss series movies, there's a possibility that Anthology as a category could be finished at some point... hopefully they'll at least be able to do one more after Solo, and that the third one could be Kenobi.

 

Come on! That guarantee means that Kenobi: A Star Wars Story comes out this August.

 

@Darth Chiznuk why are you trying to break my heart?!?!?!?!

 

It's alright I keep telling everyone that Solo is secretly the Obi-Wan movie and that's why they are so late to sharing trailers for it.

 

Every time I see a Kenobi-centric thread get bumped with no news a part of me withers away. See, I've just done it now.

 

I highly doubt they are in a rush. These announcements would happen anyway.

 

Kenobi was in no rush either...19 years on a desert planet...
Seriously, this is the Star Wars Story I most want to see.

 

I wish the GoT showrunners were doing the Kenobi movie(s)... They have this awesome sarcastic humour to their writing that would be perfect for Obi-Wan and Tatooine in general.

 

I think controlling the news cycle and headlines for positivity is definitely in the playbook of major motion picture corporations, as with any other large business, to the degree they are able to do so. The fact is in the past (rogue one and solo) we've not heard much if not anything about those projects until more concrete plans are made (such as a timeline/release date, general description of what the film is going to be about, writers and directors, etc.) and yet post-TLJ we've had a few quick announcements that have very few of the traditional details we have gotten up front when past projects were first announced.

Just seems apparent that Disney/LFL is happy to get the news out soon that there are other voices and filmmakers involved in SW, not just Rian Johnson, in case people who didn't like TLJ are worried about that...

1. Vague GoT creators film series (not even saying if it's a trilogy or how many movies much less a start date)

2. Vague Favreau streaming series (again no timeline, or announced writers or cast or even a general concept disclosed)

3. And then there's this which was not denied or shut down by LFL/Disney:

http://comicbook.com/starwars/2018/03/03/star-wars-movie-simon-kingberg-writing/

So that's three vague projects talked about within 10 weeks of the TLJ release, and all without a single new word about Rian Johnson's trilogy or updates about it, and it was announced almost 5 months ago.

That's a high number of news making considering LFL has SOLO to promote as well.