Joel Edgerton Is Not Shy About His Desire to Return to Star Wars
Actor Joel Edgerton, who played Owen Lars in the Star Wars prequels Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, recently spoke with Business Insider about his desire to be in a future Star Wars film. Edgerton explains his idea for how Owen can return to the series.
While out promoting his new film It Comes at Night, Edgerton, best known for his performances in films like Warrior, The Great Gatsby, and The Gift, chatted briefly with Business Insider about his idea for an Uncle Owen return:
“I like the idea that Uncle Owen is one of those guys who has done some super cool s— but has just never bragged about it…My idea is that he could go out and have some adventure and then he comes back and slips back into that unassuming moisture farmer role,” Edgerton said. “Everyone talks about Obi-Wan being super cool, Owen secretly knows that he was there, and he did some of the cool s—, too.”
Edgerton was not shy to bring the subject up to Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow when he saw him recently:
“I saw Colin yesterday, I was like, ‘Dude. “Star Wars.” Me.’ And he’s like, ‘You have already been in the “Star Wars” world,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, I could be someone else,'” Edgerton said.
An established and respected actor with a fantastic resume, Edgerton doesn’t appear to be taking the cool and collected approach that we’ve seen from Ewan McGregor when discussing a potential return to the franchise. He also doesn’t seem settled on simply returning as his previous character like the never-ending petition for Mace Windu’s return by Samuel L. Jackson:
“My pitch to all of them is there’s definitely some Owen possibilities,” Edgerton went on to say, “but also, I was only in the movie for a pinch of time. How about I play someone else? I can do Boba Fett. I’ll just never take off the mask.”
What do you think? Is there room for the return of Owen Lars? Perhaps in the ever popular potential Obi-Wan spinoff? That would make the most logical sense. But as he said, he is willing to come back as another character. How about the return of Gonk? It’s certainly been a while, and who doesn’t love some Gonk?
Find us on Twitter to talk about it, @ChadMStevens and @JohnnyHoey, and be sure to go to the Cantina to let your voice be heard, and of course in the comments below.
“May the force be with you, for our ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is!”
Owen and Obi-Wan – dejarik game for Luke’s school admission
Obi/Owen buddy adventure??? Yes. Maybe get to see why they don’t see eye to eye in IV.
It would be a nice parallel to Chirrut and Baize to have Obi-Wan the religious one and Owen viewing him as a “crazy old man”, but still helping him on some sort of mission.
Having him in potential Obi wan spinoff could explain some bits of a new hope Owen’s anger against Obi Wan or Jedis in general idk
With all of this bluster, I would say the odds are that an Obi-Wan movie will be announced. Of course, He will be in it – and probably have a more prominent role.
Where there is smoke…. there’s fire (or is that Snoke / Kylo)
I would love to see Obi-Wan and Owen take on a family of Krayt Dragons!
In ANH when Owen buys the droids, he says “No, not the blue” Is it because he recognizes him from AOTC or some sort of subconscient auto warning ? lol i was wondering
He saw it for like 5 minutes, 22 years ago. I doubt he would remember it being those droids are common
His character was lifeless and boring in Ep. 2. Then in 4 he’s a crusty old man. Of all the characters I want to see in a new Star Wars film, he’s somewhere down the list with the old marketplace woman from Mos Espa and the guy who stands in that observation crow’s nest on Yavin IV.
He had like two lines
Wait a sec… How is this news? Don’t even remember that there’s this guy in Star wars
The Star Wars Story movie idea is pretty simple I think to do:
An Obi-Wan vs. Boba Fett movie that’s primarily set on Tatooine. (The analogy is that this would be like a old Western/samurai tale about a disgraced cowboy/samurai warrior in hiding.)
Edgerton could return as Owen, and the movie could further elaborate on why Owen isn’t cool with Ob-Wan by the time we get to ANH.
I’m surprised this may not actually be the next Star Wars Story. I’m not claiming this as my own original idea — I think it’s an obvious story to do that would satisfy both fans who want to see McGreggor back and a Fett movie.
Also:
Jabba could appear in this idea (presumably, Fett could be working for him). The movie could go further into the criminal underworld elements of Tatooine.
The Rancor could make an appearance. Imagine Ob-Wan fighting against Jabba’s new Rancor, the same one that Luke will bring down in ROTJ.
Since this story would be set before ANH and Rogue One, maybe a cameo or small role for Chirrut and or Baze could be worked in.
Did Owen and Beru ever have any children of their own after they adopted Luke? Perhaps the story could address this, and how it ties in with other things.
Great actor. Yes please.
People need to let the idea of a Boba Fett movie go. That character is so damn boring and lame. Owen could definitely work in a potential Obi-Wan movie though. Explore the reasons he appears to not like him in ANH.
And explore how Obi-Wan know so much about Owen’s point of view.
A Boba Fett movie COULD be really great depending on how it’s played, but I highly doubt audiences will be super willing to watch a mostly-silent bounty hunter do some low-key missions. Even if it was great, it probably wouldn’t make the same kind of money as Rogue One, not even close. Which is certainly fine, but Disney probably wants the kinds of films that will make $1 billion for now before settling for the “smaller-scale” stuff (e.g. podracing circuit movie).
The exception is an Obi-Wan movie of course, becaue, like Logan, that one would be such an exploration of its title character, a cultural icon, that if it was good it would become a huge hit.
If you’ve seen TCW, you know that Boba actually has some very interesting qualities and elements of his character, and a movie about him and a team of bounty hunters teaming up together could actually be very cool.
I wouldn´t say he´s boring, but rather the mystery behin him serves him much more then exposing the backstory.
i mean if they did an obi wan movie between 3 and 4 i guess he could be in it playing owen.. but aside from that i dont think we need much more owen lars lol i prefer him to just be a simple farmer.
Instead of having more shitty ass celeb cameos, I’d like to see more Clone Wars/Rebels voice actors in the films. They are clearly talented enough to play character without anyone knowing it’s them and subconsiouly fans will feel they fit into the galaxy more than the rumored Tom Cruise. I’d much rather see Nikka Futterman or Sam Witwier (sp?) as a new alien, droid, or whatever.
They don’t even have to be credited either if they don’t want and just give them phony credits like Lucas’s kid or the voice of Jabba.
k…
Kenobi spin off will be the place to reprise his role…..
I would love a 2 and a half hour long movie about the perils of moisture farming!
Dehydration syndrome……… rehydration syndrome…….. getting sweaty…….drinking your own pee to survive until the next harvest…… the adventures could go on and on.
Owen Lars doing some weird shit?
He’s a moisture farmer… without much sense of humour and he’s uninterested in the world outside his homestead.
He didn’t even try to rescue Shmi from the Sandpeople… but in secret he’s a hero?
I think, Edgerton forgot a lot about the role he played…
But Owen Lars knew more about Luke and his relation to Anakin/Vader than can be explained from the movies.
They sent a rescue party, that’s how Cliegg lost his name. I think you forgot some stuff, too.
“they sent…”… and that’s all they did.
So much for this character being a hero.
Read his quote again. Never said anything about being a hero.
So much for your point.
“I like the idea that Uncle Owen is one of those guys who has done some
super cool s— but has just never bragged about it…My idea is that he
could go out and have some adventure and then he comes back and slips
back into that unassuming moisture farmer role”
Sounds to me, like he wants him to be a kind of hero. Having adventures and doing some super cool shit…
Han Solo had adventures and did cool shit, but he wasn’t a hero until he decided to help Luke.
Anyway, it wont happen so whatever.
I’ve always felt that a Obi Wan movie would be led by McGregor, Edgerton, and Jimmy Smits reprising the roles of ofcourse, Obi Wan, and Bail and Owen. I always thought that was a given.
Gives us 3 very good actors to build on for a spinoff movie and both Bail and Owens for sure had contact with Kenobi post Revenge of the Sith, so it just makes too much sense. I always thought this was the way to go if Obi Wan movie ever happened
Absolutely this
Obi-Wan isn’t going to leave Luke unattended. Ever. It isn’t clinging. Canon material has already established this.
Exactly why the Obi Wan movie idea is completely half-baked. He’s in a box on Tatooine. He can’t leave the planet. He needs to keep a low profile to avoid detection. I have no idea what kind of story you come up with that’s exciting and interesting enough for a two hour film of him hanging out on Tatooine.
Maybe there is an external threat to Luke that requires Obi-Wan to leave Tatooine for a day. It’s very possible.
From who? Vader? Vader has no idea where Luke is. The Empire eventually assumes that Kenobi is dead, so they have no motivation in tracking him down. Luke’s life on Tatooine is mundane and uneventful, which sets up his strong desire to leave in ANH. There simply is no real compelling story there, nor should there be. Focus on telling some new stories rather than filling in every imaginable time gap between episodes.
new stories like Han Solo becoming Han Solo? Getting his Han Solo name? 🙂 That hurts just by writing it….
No. I mean like new characters. New planets, New conflicts. New mythos.
New time periods. Han Solo movie is more unnecessary gap filler material just like the half-baked Obi Wan movie would be.
Maybe the Hutts start up some gang violence that could threaten the Lars household, or maybe the Empire comes to take Tatooine’s resources and obi-Wan is afraid of them finding him and Luke. It’s actually fairly easy to imagine a compelling conflict on Tatooine that wouldn’t even require Kenobi to leave the planet as long as you have the smallest amount of creativity and imagination. It’s not that difficult.
No, it takes a hell of a lot of imagination to make a compelling two hour movie and a script – that is, if you actally want the film to be any good. Nothing about Hutts causing trouble on Tatooine is film-worthy. Luke’s life is mundane and uneventful. They are boring moisture farmers. He is never under the threat of a crime lord syndicate.
“There is no real story here that desperately needs to be told.”
That can be said for literally every story in all of the Star Wars franchise. Admiring the character of Obi-Wan and wanting to see him save Luke from and external threat (one that Luke might not even be aware of, like the Empire) is not so crazy. It’s ONE movie. You may have to accept that not every single hour of every single one of Obi-Wan’s days on Tatooine was spent sitting in the sand. Your deep disdain for the idea of an Obi-Wanmovie is simply based on the fact that you don’t want anything to contradict your prior assumptions about Obi-Wan’s life. I’m sorry, but that’s no reason not to further explore his character.
I was completely interested in the idea of seeing the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker (even thought it turned out to be complete crap) as well as what happened after Return of the Jedi. (which so far I love) I have never wondered what ObI Wan was doing on Tatooine for 20 years, nor do I care. My objection to his movie is that, from the start, Obi Wan is in a box. I did not create that. The existing movies created that. You can’t get him out of the box without contradicting the character and his entire purpose for going to Tatooine to begin with, for reasons I already explained. We already have had enough of not-thought-out prequel movies ruining certain aspects of the OT, we don’t need any more. People want this movie because they love the character and the actor, not because of some desperate need to answer questions or mysteries about what was going on during that time frame with that character.
“I have never wondered what ObI Wan was doing on Tatooine for 20 years, nor do I care.”
I do.
“My objection to his movie is that, from the start, Obi Wan is in a box. I did not create that. The existing movies created that.”
When in the existing movies has a character said “Wow, isn’t it cool that Obi-Wan stayed on Tatoine and never left EVER for ANYTHING and never went an adventure to save Luke, even an adventure that was actually ON Tatooine??” That has never been said.
It is perfectly plausible that Obi-wan could get involved in a small on-world dispute involving Empire business or gang violence, and there is nothing in canon that would contradict that. Obi-Wan’s purpose is to save Luke, and he will do whatever it takes to accomplish that. It’s not hard to grasp.
I would love to see Bail again, but seems to me that at the time of ANH they didn´t see each other for a long time…say 19 years..
I concur that Owen might well be an important supporting role in a Kenobi movie.
If Mr. “Certain-point-of-view” isn’t lying AGAIN, he at one point wanted to give young Luke his father’s light saber and presumably begin his training, “but your uncle wouldn’t allow it”. This was apparently a few years before A New Hope.
There might have been an occasion where Owen for whatever reason followed Kenobi on an “adventure” taking them off Tatooine, but it did not end well and they had a falling out, resulting in Owen refusing to let Kenobi have any contact with Luke.
Owen’s line “that’s what I’m afraid of” when it is suggested that Luke has much of his father in him does in retrospect strongly suggest that he knew what had become of Anakin (though in real-world terms, even George Lucas didn’t know Vader was Anakin when the original movie was made!) Might a post-prequel movie show how Owen somehow learnt that the child in his care was the son of the dark-robed sociopath at Palpatine’s disposal? Was he totally shocked to find out that Kenobi had hid this “detail” from him, and more determined than ever that Luke must NEVER start digging into any Force potential he might have, or the boy could very likely end up like his father?
Would Own Lars even know who the hell Darth Vader is (or care to)?
I think the Kenobi spin off would be the place to turn up in but I don’t think they can go off world with it. My idea would be Owen and Luke on a supply trip to anchorhead and they run into some trouble with a gang of smugglers/bounty hunters and Obi Wan steps in to save them….this is all witnessed by Cad Bane who recognises Kenobi and over hears Obi Wan and Owen arguing about Luke which intrigues him into why Obi Wan has an interest in the young boys welfare. He then gets in touch with Boba Fett to tell him He has something He might be interested in but doesn’t tell him it Kenobi, Fett tells him he is on route. Bane instead of waiting for Fett then sets about trying to kidnap the young boy with his gang to lure out Kenobi again which he does by taking over the town of Anchorhead and keeping everyone in the town. Obi Wan finds out that it is Cad Bane and he has told Boba Fett who is on his way so Obi Wan has to clear up the situation before Fett arrives and put Luke in danger of being discovered.
Edgerton is one of my favorite actors right now. I don’t see any reason why he couldn’t be in an Obi Wan movie. I’d like to see Obi Wan and Owen develop a rivalry.
He really didn’t seem to like Ben, did he?
O B I W A N M O V I E N O W
amen!!!! So many of us wants this…many of us much more then Han Solo, some of us instead of Han Solo 🙂
I would like to see him return as Owen in Obi-Ewan movie. Hell even Mace Jackson could have his 5 minutes as a street rat in some place to help OB1…
Sorry Edge — fans are already petitioning for no more moisture vaporators and deserts in Star Wars, and since your character is a moisture farmer on Tatooine, that pretty much rules you out.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/837cacc6f130a1ccb0c47da43f20613b76a25a1b74fea4307951403777aa52a0.jpg
I would LOVE to see him do Owen again, Owen and Beru in an ObiWAn movie!! It would be really cool to see him butt heads with Ben Kenobi when it came to Lukes Upbringing.. Owen obviously does not think very highly of Obiwan by the time we see him in Episode 4 and doesnt want Luke around him.It would make their death even more meaningful if we saw something like this..AOTC and ROTS still didnt make me care about their deaths..They raised Luke afterall..would be nice to see how Luke got his morals that would eventually give him the courage to stand up against evil and destroy the deathstar and the SIth..He didnt just get those things from Ben and Yoda.