McGregor is approximately 14 years younger than Alec Guiness was when he shot Star Wars. His days of playing a "young" Obi-Wan are nearly over.

That is nuts, but then again, they just invested a ton of money in UFC to push their ESPN streaming app, so not far fetched they would do the same for Disney streaming.

Does Disney think they are going to get a mass audience with a Kenobi movie, Boba Fett movie, or any individual character after Solo? I just don't think those movies move the radar on the average fan, and they don't even move the radar on many diehard fans. I think part of the success of Rogue One was the momentum after TFA and part of the failure of Solo was the backlash from TLJ, but I don't think these movies ever moved the radar on the fans.

The only movies that move the radar on all the fans are the Saga movies, because they have a 'big time movie' feel to them as they seem more important then the Standalones. In saying that, if Disney were to do Episode 10,11,12, I think they would run out of steam because there is only so much original story they can do with these movies.

I think Disney has to decide which market to target after Episode 9 as trying to tailor these movies to the masses seems to be backfiring as you can't please anyone. I would look at the franchise more like Star Trek and tailor the movies to a certain demo, and hope that it appeals to more people after that.

I guess that’s true but Guiness looked quite a bit older. McGregor still looks relatively young at this point and could portray a more middle aged version of Obi-Wan.

The main reason to have Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan in episode 9 is that, of the two actors that have played Obi-Wan in live-action, he's the one still alive. They could age him up a bit if necessary.

And does anyone else think that a straight-to-streaming Obi-Wan movie could possibly be a CGI spin-off of the TV shows like Rebels?

As bad as a reputation as the prequels have Ewan McGregor is still highly regarded as Obi-Wan and is already established as Kenobi. There are plenty of twenty and thirty somethings that grew up with McgRegor as Kenobi and I do think he could draw a large box office.

There’s been talk for quite a while from fans about wanting a McGregor Obi-Wan movie so I think it could do decent. I think a film starring him has more interest than a Han Solo film did (despite the fact that I did enjoy Solo). Probably because he’s already established between the two trilogies and there’s potential for stories about what happened in between.

Word coming out is that Bob Igor held a studio conference call, wants Kennedy out but they are having difficulty replacing her. Dave Filoni is the only one actively pursuing it, but they won't give it to him because he has no experience running an entire division. I still expect him to be head of creative when all is said and done.

I wouldn't expect any title announcements/subtractions until they get this all straightened out.

Given the events of SOLO, that SW: Rebels episode with Darth Maul should have been saved for the Obi-Wan movie.

I am 100% in support of McGregor getting his own film finally, but I don't want to see it released as a result of all the current behind the scenes stuff. He deserves a good send off.

I would think there are other Lucasfilm veterans that might be worth considering along with Dave Filoni as head of creative.

I think that this could be a major problem for Star Wars.

If the cartoons and novels and comic books are all to be considered "canon" then it has the potential to lock a lot of potential movie storylines away.

Rebels has already locked what future films can do with Maul into a small box. Ditto Thrawn, where it looks like he's effectively been shut out of anything taking place during the OT.

The comics have introduced some interesting characters into the canon like Doctor Aphra, but there's such a sheer volume of material coming out... every year sees about a dozen hours of tv material, fifty or comic books, and several novels... while we'll see, maybe one movie per year.

Nobody expected Thrawn to come out of the Rebels era in any kind of position to affect the events of the OT. They simply could not have happened the way they did with someone like Thrawn on the Empire’s side.

I don't really see the comics and cartoons staying canon. The minute it gets in the way if a good film idea, it should go away.

It did in the old EU.

As much as I enjoyed the old EU, that is one of the flaws. Didn’t they have to send him to the far side of the galaxy so he wouldn’t be around?

It had something to do with the Emperor not liking non-humans, so he would use Thrawn, but not in a prime spot. Or something.

Dave Filoni would be a my choice, but I understand the hesitation of putting a creative fully in control. So, head of creative is the best option. Maybe they'll hire Ron Howard!

Filoni is the only logical choice, but honestly they might be doing him a favor. Would you really want to be in charge of cleaning up the shitfest left by Kennedy, Johnson and Abrams and having to deal with rabid SW fans?

I found out about this news from Grace Randolph's channel, another big problem is Lucasfilm is also divide among its employees. Those who are loyal to Kennedy, than the other employees who have been with the company since before the Disney buyout. There's hesitation because they are going to have to clean house at Lucasfilm. If Kathleen Kennedy leaves, its meaningless unless the story group is fired too.

Kiri Hart, the head of Lucasfilm's story group, was one of the people that became a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences today. She's only got 3 movie credits: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (co-producer), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (co-producer), Strange Magic (executive producer).

This shit-storm is more entertaining than the movies!

I think they were having a firesale on memberships and let a shitload of folks in today.

I'm sure there's plenty material for a netflix series or documentary.

The Hollywood Reporter had an interview with Bob Iger go up today. Various things were discussed and Star Wars was amongst the topics. I only chose to quote the part that pertains to future Star Wars films but the full article is in the link. Interestingly he mentions Episode IX coming from Abrams and he brings up the trilogy in development by the creators of Game of Thrones but Rian Johnson’s Trilogy isn’t brought up. He also mentions a slow down in the Star Wars films is coming.

Seems a little telling to me that he conveniently didn’t mention Johnson or his trilogy. Not saying that means it’s cancelled but that’s one of the supposed projects we were getting.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...owdown-1145493

Yeah, I think we're looking at a feature film every two yrs, supplemented w a streaming series or two. The films should focus on a trilogy of (presumably) Old Republic movies from the GoT guys next. Hopefully an Obi Wan film at some point...followed by the eventual Ep10-12 (I would guess the 50th anniversary in 2027) I just don't see room for anything more than that.

I never wanted to see another trilogy after IX. The numbered saga should end at IX and not be something that just keeps going on and pointlessly.

After that, do something new like a Obi-Wan movie, a Boba Fett/Bounty Hunters movie, a KOTOR trilogy, a Hundred Years of Darkness trilogy, a trilogy that takes place decads or centuries after IX. The possibilities are endless.