Despite Rumors, Ewan McGregor Continues to Give No Clues About Involvement in Obi-Wan Kenobi Stand-Alone Film

We’ve begun to hear rumblings from the Star Wars rumor mill about the possibility that one of the upcoming stand-alone films could center around fan-favorite Obi Wan Kenobi. With Ewan McGregor making the rounds promoting his latest film, Trainspotting 2, Business Insider took a moment to get the actor’s thoughts on these rumors, and on whether he is open to returning to the galaxy far, far away, reprising the role of the powerful Jedi.

 

 

A few months back, after it was revealed that Ewan lent his voice as Obi-Wan for the “forceback” sequence in The Force Awakens, the actor was asked numerous times if he would be interested to return to play the character he made so popular among the fans. Ewan’s answer has always been the same – he would love to do it, but he’s not been asked to do so. (“Well… not yet.“)

 

 

In the last couple of weeks, the rumors of a potential Obi-Wan spinoff movie being in the works has rekindled the discussion with new intensity. Some have even speculated that an official announcement may be imminent, to be made at next month’s Celebration: Orlando. The people at Business Insider were among the first to have the opportunity to ask the actor about this, in light of these new rumors. However, Ewan MacGregor continues to give the same answer that he’s given all along: “I’d be happy to do it.”

 

 

From Business Insider:

Listen, I have been asked about it a lot, to the point where it looks a bit like I’m sort of touting for work,” said McGregor. “I’ve been very open to say I’d be happy to do it, if they want to do it.

I think they are set going into the 2030s with their movies, but it would be fun to do, of course I’d be happy to do it.

 

As you can see, not much has changed, and Ewan’s answer continues to imply that he hasn’t yet been asked to don his Jedi robes once more. There just isn’t much at all to read into his reply (unlike Frank Oz’ reply from a few days ago about whether he might reprise his Yoda role). As Ewan himself joked, we hope they will call him before he reaches Alec Guinness’ age in A New Hope.

However, as we told you a few days ago, we’ve been hearing that things are starting to get into motion for the third Star Wars spinoff movie. If it’s going to be about Obi-Wan, Ewan should better be getting the call soon. But as we know, Ewan is really a good actor and it’s always possible that he’s already gotten that call, and that when the question comes up in interviews he is just doing what actors do best – acting.

 

 

Speaking of Obi-Wan, last night’s episode of Star Wars Rebels triggered some stormy fan discussions about Kenobi’s words that Luke is the chosen one. As we tried to point out yesterday in our review, the truth is indeed what we make of it. This was according to Kenobi himself.

 

Now Pablo Hidalgo comes to the rescue again, trying to calm the spirits with some very on point tweets.

 

 

 

 

 

As Obi Wan said to Luke in Return of the Jedi, “Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”

 

 

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73 thoughts on “Despite Rumors, Ewan McGregor Continues to Give No Clues About Involvement in Obi-Wan Kenobi Stand-Alone Film

  • March 20, 2017 at 1:56 am
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    I was hoping the Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul confrontation would be saved for the spinoff film… I guess there’s always Cad Bane…

    • March 20, 2017 at 3:06 am
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      I wasn’t. Bored with Maul now. The Obi-Wan film should not really be connected to the Jedi vs Sith history.

      In fact, I think one of the reasons we’ve not suet heard about an Obi-Wan movie is because it’s tough to come up with a story that is entirely on Tatooine….and if you don’t tell that story and you take Obi-Wan off world then you have to have a very good reason why he is leaving Luke alone.

  • March 20, 2017 at 2:48 am
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    Just putting it out there, but if you don’t want fans speculating about luke being the chosen one don’t have a main character saying so. Problem solved.

  • March 20, 2017 at 3:35 am
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    I can’t remember the exact quote, but didn’t someone at lucasfilm saying that they likely wouldn’t make an Obi-Wan film for a bit because his story isn’t over with the new films?

  • March 20, 2017 at 3:39 am
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    I feel like his glory days were in the prequels and his exile would be just not that exciting. U would have to include a young luke in there somewhere. Like what would be the main villain?

    • March 20, 2017 at 3:54 am
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      I’m sure Obi Wan had some adventures in between dropping off the kiddos to Aunt Beru and his meeting with Luke. Tattooine is full of SCOUNDRELS, and Obi Wan kept that LightSaber CLOSE!

  • March 20, 2017 at 3:41 am
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    Honestly, a part of me really wished that the Obi-wan standalone movie featured Maul. Because, really symbolically it could have helped showcase Obi-wan’s transition into Ben-Kenobi. As for setting on Tattooine, why not?

    Seriously, make the movie like a western, kind of like Logan and Unforgiven. Or better yet, go Magnificent Seven. Maybe, Obi-wan needs to save a town and recruits a few others to help him save it?

    All the while, Obi-wan regains a sense of hope/ forgiveness over failing Anakin and the galaxy. Cad Bane could be an excellent antagonist, but essentially have it be standalone and like Rogue One showcase the bridge between the PT and the OT.

    Because, I don’t think I need to say that McGregor was the single best part of the PT and in many ways, I argue he could pull it off. Heck, the PT should have been focused on him, but that’s another discussion.

    Overall, I do hope LucasFilm can keep Obi-wan’s story contained. Because, other wise him traveling off Tattooine seems very counterproductive.

    • March 20, 2017 at 3:46 am
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      I agree with EVERYTHING you said here. I like YOURU idea of an “old west” Tattooine style film with Obi Wan. And honestly, would like to see this happen more in like 5 years — with a little “gray” in his hair — Ewan could really resemble Alec Guiness even more. Also, I agree with you, HANDS DOWN, that Ewan was the only good “new” actor in the PT. Hayden was terrible, Natalie was a parody of her character, and everyone else I can’t remember they were so STIFF. Yes Ian as Palpatine was GOLD but the rest of the “newbies”, except Ewan, were atrocious. Absolutely atrocious.

    • March 20, 2017 at 3:48 am
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      Futhermore, I like what you said about the PT — that OBI WAN should have been the focal point character. THAT is a point of view I haven’t heard explored — that is valuable. The PT *SHOULD* have been more of HIS story —- with Anakin as HIS friend, that HE tried to train, that HE nurtured, but then FELL to the Dark Side. Obi Wan’s story, ultimately, would have been more satisfying than what we got — a muddled-mess in which you don’t even know who is the Main Character and can be summarized as follows: “Hey here’s an 8 year old kid, NO DAD, he’s got great powers, the WISE Council says he’s chosen, OH WAIT he’s a serial killer / psycho and killing children and choking his wife — UH OH!” GREAT FILMS GUYS ! LOL

      • March 20, 2017 at 3:57 am
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        Agreed. More often, I see people who claimed if they had the power to remake the prequels, they’d focus on making Anakin a good, main character. And while I could see that; honestly, Obi-wan would have been more compelling.

        Obi-wan is the Merlin of SWs. He, like Merlin, led Luke this Arthurian figure, on his journey. And died to make sure he was safe. The OT only shows us Obi-wan after he came to terms with his failure. But imagine us seeing the story of how he became that way?

        That is actually one thing I loved about the Jedi Apprentice novels. We saw that growth. And honestly, a movie trilogy would have been perfect. We would have seen the camaraderie between Obi-wan and Anakin and ultimately what turned Anakin down a dark path. And as such, how in many ways, Obi-wan saw Luke as a means to redeem himself for his mistake. Alas, the PT are canon. Nothing we can do about that.

        That said, I believe this Anthology movie if done well, could rectify a lot of answers with his character and could be something cool. Because, while I am for new characters and stories; Obi-wan is one of those character I say is much more interesting to have a story about than say Han Solo or even Yoda.

        • March 20, 2017 at 4:02 am
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          BRO —- SPOT ON x 1,000. You have “saved” the Prequels today and your 3rd Paragraph there almost brought a tear to my eye. Can Disney PLEASE hire you for the REBOOT ? I would love to see the Prequels UN-CANONED someday and re-made….. And even if they never get re-made, while they are “canon” (pablo’s fav word) — for the most part Disney is treating the Prequels like the Black-Sheep-Skid-Mark that they are. IGNORE, RINSE, REPEAT.

          • March 20, 2017 at 4:35 am
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            Thank you, very much. I appreciate it. Honestly, the PT I don’t see LucasFilm doing anything with them just yet. And they really are disappointing because the PT world is awesome. I prefer it to the OT. Still, it is hard to deny the OT had the characters and themes.

            As for this ST, I’ve been disappointed so far. TFA I see as a mixed bag. Now, I’m holding out on TLJ because unlike JJ Abrams, Rian Johnson is a good director. I’m super biased as he directed two of my favorite films, Looper and Brick, respectively.

            But then again, I enjoyed RO a lot more. And as a result, I saw the potential for the anthology films. If SWs is this tapestry of stories, with the OT, PT and ST being the bulk, the external details like the anthology films really do flesh out the world.

        • March 20, 2017 at 4:09 am
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          When you read OLD interviews with Lucas from the 80’s, his “original vision” of the Prequels wasn’t the “ballad-of-Anakin.” It was a grittier vision of the formation of the Jedi Order, with this Obi Wan / Anakin friendship turned failure that leads to a dual over a Volcano (sans the Super Mario-style floating Platforms). I only wish Lucas hadn’t waited so long — if he had done the Prequels in the 80’s with Lawrence Kasdan (not YES-MAN-Extraordinaire Rick McCallum) at his side, I cant even begin to imagine how amazing they would have been…….

      • March 20, 2017 at 5:22 pm
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        I don’t disagree. I like the PT (to a degree) but what a missed opportunity.

  • March 20, 2017 at 4:21 am
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    I don’t care what Obi Wan Kenobi is doing on Tatooine for 20 years. He’s not supposed to be doing anything but sitting in his hut watching Luke from a distance. This is the most creatively-bankrupt, half-baked idea for Star Wars movie that I’ve ever heard. We do not need Star Wars watered down by filling in every imaginable time gap between episodes with one story after the other about the same people, cramming in fan service at every opportunity. Tell me a new story about new people. Give me a different time frame altogether. Surprise me for once and take some genuine risks, instead of shoveling more and more of the familiar.

    • March 20, 2017 at 4:35 am
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      Well to be fair the very first stand alone movie was what you’re saying. it has all kinds of new people and new worlds. And the “steal the deathstar plans” story had been done before, but this was a different way entirely to do it than in the past ones. The reason I’d like to see an Obi-Wan movie is two fold. One because I genuinely liked Ewan’s portrayal of him in the prequels and thin he’d to great in another movie, and two because tatooine is an interesting rock. Just because he can’t leave the planet doesn’t mean a new cast of scoundrels and boundy hunters couldn’t come out of nowhere. I think the Star Wars movies are going to stay in the Orig Trig era because prequel era is still too disliked by mass audiences, old republic is way too out there, and post jedi is being told by the saga films. Though I do totally get your want for something out there.

      • March 20, 2017 at 5:00 am
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        Rogue One did have new characters and worlds, but it was wrapped up in the completely familiar territory of A New Hope and basically ended where that movie began. So it wasn’t really a stand alone movie, because it was made for an audience that already had a full understanding of what was going on in that time frame, knew what the Empire and Rebellion were about, knew who people like Mon Mothma, Tarkin and Darth Vader were. I’m talking about a genuine stand alone movie that has nothing to do with an existing movie, with characters that don’t interact with people and events we already know about and outcomes that we can easily predict based on what we already know. This is the main problem with prequels in general. If the audience already knows a likely outcome, and knows that a character like Obi Wan will survive, the amount of tension, intrigue and suspense is diminished. Our enjoyment and curiosity of watching the story unfold is considerably less than a story in which we have no idea what is going to happen.

        • March 22, 2017 at 12:10 am
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          That’s so true, my big problem with prequels is I totally know what happens and it makes legacy characters kind of pointless unless it reveals something huge character-wise. The only thing I think they could do for a completely offset movie is do a KOTOR era or something super far away movie, because I feel like if they put a story that isn’t connected in any way in say the prequel era, then fans will be running around wondering how it ties in and alters the other content as we do now with current stuff. I think if I could choose any stand alone movie that’s not connected I’d want something in scummy bounty-hunter land, the episodes in the clone wars where Obi-Wan sneaks into that group of bounty hunters was so awesome

    • March 20, 2017 at 5:38 am
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      Good thing about movies is you can ignore them and believe what you want. There is no doubt a majority of fans who very much want Kenobi.

      • March 20, 2017 at 6:38 am
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        A majority of fans what to see two hours of Obi Wan Kenobi dealing with scoundrels and bandits on Tatooine? Why? What exactly is the appeal of that? What does it creatively add to the Star Wars mythos and why does it make for exciting storytelling?

        • March 20, 2017 at 1:49 pm
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          What the point of having stories which add to the mythos? Whats the point of Star Wars films? Nothing they are pointless. But we love the world.
          Just because something isnt siginificant to the universe doesnt mean it cant be fun.
          I think showing Obi-wan actively defending Luke/ saving innocent locals from Jabbas Thugs personally would be great.
          Personally. I think they should have left the Maul vs Ben duel to film.

          • March 20, 2017 at 3:10 pm
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            Luke Skywalker is not supposed to be having exciting things happen to him like being threatened by gangsters’ thugs. His existence on Tatooine is boring and uneventful, which sets up his desire to leave the planet and venture elsewhere away from his mundane life. See how that doesn’t work and disrupts the character development of Luke?

          • March 20, 2017 at 5:21 pm
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            I would say simply b/c you can’t think of a good story for Obi-Wan doesn’t mean LFL can’t.

          • March 20, 2017 at 5:41 pm
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            The problem is that he is boxed in there. He’s in hiding. He’s watching over Luke. He’s not trying to attract attention to himself. The Empire eventually assumes that he “must be dead by now.” He’s not going to be having wild adventures that put himself and Luke in danger of being discovered and he’s not leaving the general area of Tatooine. It’s an exile which makes his emergence after 20 years all the more meaningful and significant. So you severely limit what he can do there during that time, or else the whole point of his exile doesn’t make sense anymore.

          • March 20, 2017 at 7:24 pm
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            Yeah, you have to limit it. A small-scale Western style movie? Count me in.

          • March 20, 2017 at 7:40 pm
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            Why should they add to the mythos (eg big events like the steal of the Deathstar plans in R1)?
            Why can’t they be insignificant stories which neither adds nor subtracts to the series.
            Why can’t we have simple stories like a single battle from a stromtroopers persepctive?

            Additionally, to show Obiwan defending Luke (from thugs) without Lukes knowledge (which we have seen in the comics) will not affect the story. Being harassed by Jabbas thugs is probally normal to most Tattoine natives. He wants of the planet mostly because he wants to explore the galaxy (not simply because he is bored).

    • March 21, 2017 at 2:21 am
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      I find your lack of imagination disturbing. A lot of stuff can happen in 20 years, even if he is watching luke most of the time, this is the best oportunity to explore about the force like in no other movie, it may include Yoda, and Qui-gon, that’s one think, a huge thing, and anything else that may cross his path in that planet.

      And I believe that after the 9 movie Skywalkers saga, there will explore another timeframe, and other characters, but I think for now there is still much to tell about known characters.

      • March 21, 2017 at 6:57 am
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        Yeah, imagination is thinking of something NEW, not giving us the same characters and planets over and over again. We spent 4 films and a cartoon series with Obi Wan Kenobi, 4 films on Tatooine and somehow the fifth one would be an amazing display of imagination? No. Give me new people and new places for a change.

        • March 24, 2017 at 2:02 am
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          You can have an amazing display of imagination using familiar characters, and have a total lack of imagination using new characters and new places, I think new stuff depends on the story itself. I agree with you that wee need some new stuff, but I don’t mind if i see familiar places, even characters, but if they will stick to using just deserts, forests, snow planets, etc, I think SW is doomed, the gallaxy is big anough I believe, there must be a lot of places we haven’t seen yet. or at least less desertic or forested or snowed places…

  • March 20, 2017 at 4:30 am
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    At least Ewan can afford to wait for a long time long as he is still in good health. Obi-Wan is probably the most dishonest character in the entire OT so much as I don’t care for all the retconning going on, He has a point.

    • March 20, 2017 at 5:15 am
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      Dishonest b/c he didn’t tell Luke about Vader ?

      • March 20, 2017 at 3:35 pm
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        “No. Dishonest, because Lucas rushed to change him. That incomplete was his continuity. That not ready for the storytelling burden was he.”

  • March 20, 2017 at 5:57 am
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    OKAY here’s an idea. In the new canon I believe Owen owes the Hutt’s or someone a lot of money..because he never pays what he owes on time or even at all. Jabba calls for a couple of certain bounty hunters to go and retrieve the money. Perhaps familiar faces such as Cad Bane and Aura Sing..familiar but expendable. Or even create new bounty hunters that we’ve never seen before. Definitely not Boba..this obviously would put Luke and the homestead in danger. Obi wan at a cantina heard the news and tries to stop it before it even happens. There’s your movie.

  • March 20, 2017 at 9:08 am
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    Some of people commenting here, saying “There is nothing to do with it” probably never read new Marvel’s Star Wars comics. The ones with “Ben Kenobi journal” storyline.

    There is plenty of ideas:
    – His spiritual trening alongside Qui Gon’s ghost
    – Dealing with Jabba’s thugs
    – Luke in danger somewhere (Tuskens?)
    – Small Imperial unit finds him, but can’t contact Empire due to sandstorm. The race begins.
    – Mix of the above.

    • March 20, 2017 at 3:12 pm
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      Yeah, it’s Obi Wan dealing with Jabba’s thugs over water distribution. None of that is going to make a compelling and exciting 2 hour movie.

      • March 20, 2017 at 5:20 pm
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        Really? A western-style movie? Logan did well with something similar.

        • March 20, 2017 at 5:49 pm
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          The whole point of going to Tatooine was to avoid detection from Vader and the Empire and keep a low profile in exile. If you have Obi Wan going around having adventures on Tatooine and getting into fights with Jabba’s thugs and dealings with scoundrels, it isn’t going to be long til a spy or bounty hunter notices him and informs the Empire and the cover is blown. So it makes no sense.

          • March 20, 2017 at 7:22 pm
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            Depends on how it goes. I’m not saying it is easy, but it’s not impossible. A small-scale movie? Might be a neat change.

      • March 21, 2017 at 12:26 am
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        You never saw westerns then.

  • March 20, 2017 at 9:33 am
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    Its a rich area storytelling wise and character development wise, if you are open minded and creative about it.

    Obi Wan.. Having to deal with his failure of Anakin, and self guilt, also wondering if the whole chosen one thing was just a lie, and also feeling guilt about not killing Anakin, and seeing what hes become.. having to deal with ALL that guilt.. theres a story that can be told, maybe a Logan approach.

    Id imagine he tried to distance himself from the force, and hed have to bring himself back.. maybe he became a drunk always in Tatooine cantina, and got involed with Jabba in a way, never know what they can think of.. you could throw in Yoda, Jimmy Smits as Bail, Edgerton as Owen, maybe Cad Bane(being hired to track down Kenobi) there really is alot of ways they can go.. Id totally be open minded if its an engaging story

  • March 20, 2017 at 2:16 pm
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    I think an Obi-Wan movie would be a huge misdirection of resources. We know Obi-Wan’s story. We’ve had four feature films and two animated series that deal with it. He’s on Tatooine to watch over Luke and contemplate the Force with Qui-Gon or whatever. That’s his story. Any other narrative that needs to be told can be done so through a novel or one of those awful comics.

    Plus, I can’t see anyone pulling off a Star Wars movie where the entire plot unfolds on the same planet. And Obi-Wan cannot leave Tatooine. He’s there to watch over Luke and nothing could be so important that he’d abandon this charge; even briefly.

    • March 20, 2017 at 3:32 pm
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      And yet, the walls of his home in ANH are decorated with mementos that seem to suggest adventures elsewhere.

      • March 20, 2017 at 4:08 pm
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        He has a few things here and there. He lived in that place for almost 20 years so certainly he’s accrued a few possessions. But a movie isn’t necessitated because he has a couple doo-dads sitting around. It’s not that he never left his home. He most certainly ventured into local markets and whatnot and interacted with locals. But that’s hardly feature film material.

        • March 20, 2017 at 11:39 pm
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          But venturing off-world for a day to stop an external threat to Luke’s safety would certainly be feature-film material.

          • March 21, 2017 at 4:20 pm
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            I agree. He certainly seems familiar enough with Mos Eisley and where to look for the best freighter pilots to provide off-planet transport.

    • March 20, 2017 at 6:26 pm
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      There could easily be an off world threat to the discovery of Luke, or more likely Obi-wan’s role as guardian with a little imagination. The last episode of Rebels proved that his existence on Tatooine isn’t top secret.

  • March 20, 2017 at 2:35 pm
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    I don’t see anything promising in his comments. He may just be playing stupid and just isn’t allowed to make any comments or Lucasfilm still has not come to him.

  • March 20, 2017 at 3:29 pm
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    From a certain point of view Luke AND Anakin are the chosen ones. Anakin would have never destroyed the Sith on his own. He needed his son (the whole reason he went to the darkside to begin with – to protect his family and ones he loved) to help him and redeem him to get him there. There is no definitive answer, it is meant to be ambiguous. Like Yoda said in ROTS, misinterpreted the prophecy may have been. Deep breaths everyone, deep breaths!

    • March 20, 2017 at 5:20 pm
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      It’s Anakin. He is the one born without a father. He is the one who kills the Sith. Luke is the inspiration.

      • March 20, 2017 at 10:01 pm
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        It’s Luke. He is the one chosen by Disney.

        • March 20, 2017 at 11:38 pm
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          Disney and Lucasfilm respect George Lucas, and George Lucas says that Anakin is the Chosen One, so Anakin is the Chosen One.

          • March 21, 2017 at 1:52 am
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            Ah no vagina, they respect fan’s money far more, Luke was the original chosen one in 1977 – by Obi Wan – think Merlin and Arthur, Gandalf and Frodo – and is simply being reinstated in 2017 – again by Obi Wan.

          • March 21, 2017 at 3:13 am
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            He was the main character, but he wasn’t the Chosen One. Let’s not be disingenuous here; nothing has changed. As evidenced by Obi-Wan’s dialogue in Episode III (“you were SUPPOSED to be the Chosen One”), Obi-Wan THINKS that Anakin isn’t the Chosen One. But he’s wrong.

            Also, if Lucasfilm didn’t respect George, they would remake the prequels and release the Special Editions, but they clearly haven’t done that.

  • March 20, 2017 at 4:04 pm
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    I think for the story, Rey is Luke’s daughter. For the MONEY, Rey is related to Obi Wan. That perfectly sets up the “origin” story. More films, more dough.
    Not my preference as a fan (although, I’m a fan no matter what). But from a financial standpoint it’s much smarter.

    • March 20, 2017 at 11:38 pm
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      I doubt Obi-Wan would have had a daughter (Rey’s mom).

  • March 20, 2017 at 5:13 pm
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    Anakin was the chosen one, but he fell to the darkside and after order 66 nearly all Jedi are dead. Obi-Wan knows that Luke will have a high force potential since his father is Anakin, this does NOT automatically mean he is ‘the chosen one’, but the fact that his father stands next to space hitler makes him the most obvious candidate to confront Vader and the Emperor. Not the chosen one by prophecy, chosen out of need and hope.

    • March 20, 2017 at 5:19 pm
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      ok

  • March 20, 2017 at 5:19 pm
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    So…no news then?

  • March 20, 2017 at 5:24 pm
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    The fact that you see it as an eff you to the PT is disappointing. Stop trying to keep score.
    From Obi-Wan’s POV, Anakin is lost. So he is pinning his hopes on Luke as the Chosen One.

    • March 20, 2017 at 5:49 pm
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      While it makes sense for Obi wan to think this because of what he has been through, I do also believe it is something that should have never been said because of the fact that it can cause unnecessary confusion. The prophecy has already been fufilled by this point, quite perfectly actually. Anakin brought the perfect balance by leaving 2 Jedi in obi wan and Yoda, and two Sith in himself and the emperor. It was a prophecy misread by the Jedi that thought it would work in their favor, but in all honesty the Jedi order was a corrupt organization that strayed away from its core beliefs.

      • March 20, 2017 at 7:24 pm
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        So we should baby the audience and dumb down the story b/c the internet is incapable of thinking critically?

        And no, that’s not balance. Balance is achieved when the Sith are destroyed. You seem to forget Kanan is a Jedi and Ezra is a Padawan. So it’s out of balance according your theory.

        The prophecy is fulfilled when Anakin kills the Emperor. I had the same theory you did in 1999. But it didn’t work out that way.

        • March 20, 2017 at 7:34 pm
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          That’s why the inclusion of Kanan and Ezra in rebels cause even more problems..but are they really considered Jedi? And besides, there’s still some stability there because of the inquisitors. Destroying all Sith wouldn’t cause balance because then the force would favor the light..the force has a light and a dark side..there can’t be one without the other. My theory before this new canon and all these new Jedi popping up was what I mentioned above..BUT with the destruction of the Sith I would have thought Luke would see the failures of the order and strive to become something different..something in the middle thus causing a new generation of force users after the legacy of the chosen one.

          • March 20, 2017 at 7:55 pm
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            Yoda granted Kanan the title of Jedi Knight, so yes?

            Some consider the dark side to be a corruption of the Force and not an equal aspect, so if the Sith are corrupting and CLOUDING the Force (as we saw in the PT), then it might be out of balance.

  • March 20, 2017 at 5:32 pm
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    The thing is everyone thinks it would be based on just Tatooine because Luke is there. People use your imaginations, there could easily be an external threat to Luke or even Obi-wan (that he would need to deal with in order to continue his guardian role).

    Most likely most would occur on Tatooine, but its not impossible that he might need to leave in the short term. Its not like he’s outside the farm 24/7 anyway.

    • March 20, 2017 at 11:22 pm
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      I know that Lucas said that Obi Wan never left Tatooine after he arrived with Luke, but I’ve always thought he could have left at some point relatively early in Luke’s life. And like a few others, not many, I’ve always thought he could have a second confrontation with Vader, before ANH, which would allow for certain phrases in the OT to make sense again.

      • March 20, 2017 at 11:35 pm
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        Like what?

        • March 20, 2017 at 11:55 pm
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          Well actually I misspoke now that I think about it. There are lines in the OT that allow for a confrontation between the two but don’t necessarily imply that it has to happen.

          • March 21, 2017 at 12:15 am
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            I personally don’t think that Vader and Obi-Wan should battle before Episode IV, since Vader has that line about being the master and apprentice and whatnot.

      • March 21, 2017 at 12:31 am
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        Exactly its not written in stone…..yet. I’m all for Obi-wan having a close-call with Vader, not a confrontation as such, but something so that he feels Obi-wan’s presence and then something happens to have him presume his death.

  • March 20, 2017 at 8:37 pm
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    Yep, always enjoyable!

  • March 20, 2017 at 10:33 pm
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    I want to see an Obi Wan movie about attaining greater understanding – he goes out to the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, eats space mushrooms and has weird nonsensical, distorted and disturbing hallucinations about his younger life. The PT(Prequel Trip) is what Obi Wan sees(his episodes), they’ll still be canon, and the upcoming Disney remakes will be the real episodes 1-3.

    • March 20, 2017 at 11:35 pm
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      Freaky.

  • March 22, 2017 at 1:07 am
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    My all time hope is to see a live action of Obi-wan going through the same training Yoda went through to get the gift of the afterlife. We got to see the animation version in the Lost Missions of The Clone Wars TV series, Yoda saw so much of what was going to happen and had to find peace. Maybe Obi-wan new his death would inspire Luke and make him want to be a Force learner, so when he saw Luke looking his way he let Darth “strike him down”.

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