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HELLO THERE: Obi-Wan Kenobi film (finally) in the works

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Bobby Roberts

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Via the Hollywood Reporter

dir: Stephen Daldry (possibly)

Stephen Daldry is Star Wars' new hope.

The Oscar-nominated director behind Billy Elliot and The Hours is in early talks to direct a Star Wars standalone movie centering on Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Sources say talks are at the earliest of stages and that the project has no script. If a deal makes, Daldry would oversee the development and writing with Lucasfilm brass. It's not known at this stage if Ewan McGregor will reprise his role.
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Davide

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I'm excited but feels like a needless story to be told.

And should have gone with the director of Logan.
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
YASSSS QUEEN!


Three good things in the trilogy story:

Darth Maul, Emperor Palpatine. And Obi Wan, who acted everyone else off the screen. Except McDiarmid.
 
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shandy706

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So, obviously, this would have to fall between Episode III and IV right?

I mean, if they went young Obi Wan (really young), then you couldn't use Ewan.
 
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Einchy

semen stains the mountaintops
Man, I'm actually surprised this is early and hasn't been in the works for forever.
BoogieWoogie said:
For the record, Ewan McGregor hasn't agreed to this yet.
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There's no way he refuses that big ass paycheck. He also likes being Obi-Wan, I believe.
 
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adj_noun

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Next they should do Yoda: the Crazy Years. Slowly losing his mind on Dagobah. Teaching rocks the alphabet. Singing softly to stumps. That kind of thing.
 
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SpaceWolf

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I'm so thrilled about this.

I'm completely confident they'll ask Ewan back. He's an A-List actor with a huge following and a positive, proven relationship with the studios involved. Plus, he's publically expressed his enthusiasm to return for a potential spin-off for ages now.

He'll be back. There's absolutely no reason for him not to be.
 
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Vanille

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I still don't understand why this wasn't the first spin-off that Disney put into production. It makes so much sense.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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Blader said:
So as I was saying in the other thread...



This is an even more disappointing director's choice than Trevorrow.
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Really? Daldry worse than Trevorrow?

That's kinda surprising to hear. I like Daldry. I mean, I'm not like a huge fan or anything but he's certainly not a director you'd expect to be assigned a Star Wars film, which makes me pretty interested in what he would do.

(Especially considering I think at one point LFL was considering Zack Snyder for something along these lines, so hey.)

Why the dislike for Daldry?
 
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Infernostew

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And to think I thought there would be some creativity to these Star Wars films and not Disney just churning out "things we know". Yawn...

Edit: and Daldry... Nope. I'm out.
 
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BrokenFiction

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Bobby Roberts said:
Really? Daldry worse than Trevorrow?

That's kinda surprising to hear. I like Daldry. I mean, I'm not like a huge fan or anything but he's certainly not a director you'd expect to be assigned a Star Wars film, which makes me pretty interested in what he would do.

(Especially considering I think at one point LFL was considering Zack Snyder for something along these lines, so hey.)

Why the dislike for Daldry?
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I liked his work on The Crown. *shrug*
 
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