A/V Obi-Wan TV show happened, Ewan McGregor returned

The only negativity is the people who complain about negativity!

I always go with the TPM soundtrack being the best part of the prequels. Ewan's great, but even he was hampered by awful scripts and lines.

That's what I've been hoping for since the Obi-Wan movie rumors began years ago. With a director who can give the flick a legit Old West feel. But after Lord and Miller's firing (and the bringing in of Lucas's trusty friend Ron Howard), I don't really have any more faith in LFL to let the SW Anthology films stand out with unique tones and flair. Even Rogue One had the potential to be a much more gritty war film if they had let Gareth Edwards do his own thing instead of doing all those reshoots. I did like it, but I feel like I could have loved it.

 

I think with Star Wars it is like complaints actors/directors might have working with Marvel....they want their characters to be their characters. They do not want someone to come in and re-invent their character to something they are not and have never been.

 

So, will it be set between Episode I and II, II and III or III and Rogue One?

 

This scene:



In live action. (well, cgi and miniature models realistically speaking)

Spoiler

also: not directly related, but man would I love to see a really good "realistic" rendition of the neo-classical Harnaidan.






Really begs for full on, unashamed use of green matrix filters. They already have the reflective skyscrapers to go with it.

I love how the 2003 series was a direct visual extension/companion for the ultra vibrant aotc:


So deliciously vivid.

 

Revenge of The Sith's script is no worse than A New Hope's.
Hell, I'd say it's much better. Tom Stoppard, Carrie Fisher and others worked on it.

 

I want it be between III and IV.

 

Hoping it's with McGregor and during the stint on Tatooine. So 5 BBY-ish?

 

Sean Bean could work too.

 

There's absolutely no reason to not have McGregor if it's set between the trilogies.

 

Which isn't to say we couldn't have Sean Bean for another character. Yeah, I want Ewan for Obi-Wan, if he's willing, but Sean... he'd make a good bad guy. Or a good guy with a rough streak (like Han Solo). Could they afford both of them?

 

Of course, our movie making is completely legal, and will gladly accept ambassadors.

Out of Universe: Let the negotiations begin.

 

I'd say their best bet is to have the film be a reflective film--desert Ben looking back over his past life interspersed with present day problems.

 

But I'm not a fan of a film with flashbacks.

If they are bringing a Tahiri 2.0 maybe Obi-Wan could save her from the Sand people attack on her moisture farm. Then Tahiri 2.0 could maybe even be Rey's mom.

 

Well, I'M not making the movie. But if this is the film you eventually might get, I'm sorry?

 

I'm waiting for official confirmation before getting too excited about this, but if true?

 

What a surprise

(not really, it's been talked about constantly for like the last 2 or 3 years)

But good to get a confirmation nonetheless

No, one of the main reasons they want to do an Obi-Wan movie at all is because of Ewan McGregor. Go pre-TPM and it would defeat the purpose. Not to mention the vast majority of the fan base are interested in old-beardy Obi-Wan, especially post ROTS.

Not saying it wouldn't be awesome, but it's clearly not happening

 

I'd be okay with a pre-TPM movie if it was written by Jude Watson.

 

Isn't she mainly a YA author? (actually, a junior reader author?)


If I had to choose, I'd go with
John Jackson Miller
Drew Karpyshyn
Timothy Zahn

In that order.
The choices and order is based on the author's experience in the pre TPM era and Zahn comes in because he's my favourite SW author.
Other authors would have been chosen if they had more experience in that period.

 

Jude Watson wrote 20 books about pre-TPM Obi-Wan. Who cares who they were marketed to?


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I shouldn't care about marketing.

But I'm torn.

On one hand, you can't have some "themes" for these books. We know everything will be okay, the good, young people we identify with win at the end, the evil old Imperial/Vongs get beaten and menace our teenager heroes another day.
On the other, we will have Edge of Victory Conquests, Star by Stars, Lost Stars's

The only constant in YA books these days seem to be the age of the POV characters.

And was Jude Watgson the one who killed Siri Tachi? No more Siriwan?

 

If you've never read the Jedi Apprentice series I can't recommend it enough. One of the plotlines is Obi-Wan leaving the Jedi Order to join a group of child soldiers in a planetwide civil war!

Watson also wrote a book that was Leia's POV in ANH while she's imprisoned on the Death Star. You know how the film cuts off right when Vader enters the room with the interrogation droid? For a supposedly YA book, Watson delves into the torture aspect way more than the film did.


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I hope it's the Ben Kenobi western I've been dreaming of.

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Really hope this is true and is probably the stand alone movie I'm most interested in, having said that it has to be Ewan, he made the role his own in the PT and is obviously the right age. Doing a young Obi-Wan movie and recasting everyone just wouldn't work for me and is why I'm so sceptical/meh about the Han Solo project. Although having read this thread I would now love to see Sean Bean get a chance in a SW movie too, he's a fantastic actor.

 

I'm glad this is happening and am sure as hell looking forward to seeing this as opposed to the Han Solo movie.
I hope it's not an origin movie and actually set between 3 and 4 with Obi wan just on Tatoonie