OBI WAN KENOBI CLONE WARS SERIES
The series introduces a new planet to the galaxy: Daiyu, with a glowing urban Hong Kong-like setting perfect for rooftop blaster shootouts.
But be ready to pack up that starfighter. Trailers show Kenobi on the desert planet with binoculars, 10-year-old Skywalker in sight. Kenobi brought Luke to live with family on Tatooine, and that’s where the new series begins. “I will take the child and watch over him.” That was Kenobi’s plan for Luke Skywalker at the conclusion of 2005′s “Revenge of the Sith.” Luke and Leia’s mother died just after their birth, and Jimmy Smits’ regal Bail Organa adopted Leia. But here’s what to look for as the first two episodes premiere Friday: (Kenobi was also featured in the animated series “The Clone Wars,” which ran for seven seasons and is now on Disney+.)įilming took place last year primarily on Industrial Light & Magic’s technologically innovative Los Angeles-area soundstages, where massive LED screens create virtual worlds that surround performers.Īs with the hit “The Mandalorian,” also filmed there, producers have kept most details cloaked in secrecy. That was tossed in the scrap heap after the relatively meager box office returns of 2018′s “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” With the launch of Disney+ the next year, Lucasfilm pinned its hopes on a streaming series. “I’ve always got to be somebody who ends up becoming Alec Guinness at the end of the day.”Ī Kenobi project featuring McGregor has been in development for years, originally as a film with Stephen Daldry attached to direct.
I studied him in that movie,” the 51-year-old actor said. He listened to Guinness’ dialogue on a sound file in his dressing room and took more time after scenes were filmed “just to do a little extra Alec Guinness-y take – just to make sure. McGregor said he always kept the venerated Guinness in mind during production. It’s set halfway between George Lucas’ two trilogies: 10 years after “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” which marked McGregor’s last appearance as the character, and nine years before the late Alec Guinness made his hooded, howling entrance as Ben Kenobi in “Episode IV: A New Hope.” The Jedi master gets his own moment in the suns with a new six-part Disney+ series starring Ewan McGregor. The Grand Inquisitor appears, definitely alive, in Star Wars: Rebels, which is set four years after Obi-Wan Kenobi, as one of the main antagonists.LOS ANGELES - “Obi-Wan Kenobi” - now that’s a name casual “Star Wars” fans haven’t heard in a long time. No, the Grand Inquisitor is not dead, unless this show is planning to radically alter the Star Wars canon. Would It Really Work to Punch a Lion in the Face? What If You’re Idris Elba? Of Course This Would Happen to the Padres
OBI WAN KENOBI CLONE WARS MOVIE
What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Ron Howard’s Thai Cave Rescue Movie The Most Unpredictable Show on Television Is Going Exactly According to Plan No, I hate spoilers and am going to close the web page now. Since then, Obi-Wan has been living in a cave on a remote planet, and news doesn’t exactly travel quickly around the Star Wars galaxy to begin with, especially when it comes to the Empire’s shadier dealings.ĭid the Grand Inquisitor really just die? Well, the last time he saw Anakin, he had cut off his legs and left him grilled medium-well and still literally on fire, next to a river of lava.