Ewan McGregor returning?

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My team at Fanpedia learned via an inside source that Ewan McGregor was up for the role of Doctor Strange, but Disney stepped in and told Marvel they couldn't have him because Lucasfilm needs him to play Obi-Wan Kenobi again.

http://starwarsfans.wikia.com/wiki/..._for_Doctor_Strange,_Before_Disney_Stepped_In

This aligns with previous rumors that there could be one or even as many as three Obi-Wan Kenobi spinoff films, presumably set between Episode III and Episode IV.

Do you want to see any sort of Obi-Wan movie(s)? What kind of story would you like to see?
 

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Worst idea ever. Obi-Wan is one of my favorite charactesr and Ewan McGregor is a great actor, but I would like to see films that are about the great Jedi Purge, maybe Ferus Olin and his rebellion, and after the death of Palpatine in his real body, not the clones.
 
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Mixed feelings. If similar to the novel Kenobi, could be interesting. I dunno. I'll probably wait to see.
 

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I see so far not everyone is excited for a possible Obi-wan spin-off but anyways....

*Screams*

**** yeah I want an Obi-wan spin-off! I needs it!
 

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I'd like to see a film with Obi-Wan taking center stage. I like the character, and I liked Ewan McGregor's performance. Mildly excited, will wait to see more.
 

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I wish there was a Obi-Wan TV Show. Each week he'd visit some poor low life and influence their choices until they've gone home, rethought their life, and turned out as successful stock-brokers, or running a home pottery business.
 

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I've expressed my general opinion on this kind of possibility before (namely, standalone films that could just show off more notable events of Obi-Wan's hidden years, but not necessarily significant to the setting at large), and I suppose if you had to get an actor in on it, McGregor is still the best bet to go with.
 

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McGregor was the best thing about the prequels. What's so bad about having him back as Obi-Wan?
 

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I'm one of those Star Wars fans that will go watch the movie no matter what I think of it. Heck, I went to go see the Phantom Menace in 3D.

But yes, an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie would be cool. Especially if it was similar to the Kenobi novel.
 

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Maybe show how relations soured between the Lars and Kenobi. It seemed like the Lars didn't care much for him in A New Hope, yet it didn't give any clue why there would be bad relations in the Prequel Trilogy.
 

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I think it was mostly Owen that didn't care for him, not sure about Beru.

As for whether I'd see the movie(s): Hell yeah! I enjoyed McGregor's performance and it'd be nice to possibly see some interquels.
 

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So yeah, I am definitely up for a Ben Kenobi movie. Prospero and I were chatting about an idea a few weeks ago, and the gist of it would be that Obi-Wan is, of course, on Tatooine. He is watching over Luke. He has a decent enough relationship with Owen Lars, though they don't really have anything to do with one another. The villain would be a Tusken Raider who was there when Anakin slaughtered her village, and she would have been tainted by the powerful dark side presence that Anakin left behind. As a result, she's sort of a dark side user, but hardly powerful. Her threat comes more from the army of sand people that she would have.

The dark side imprint that Anakin left behind on her would have given her a brief glimpse into his mind. As a result, she knows who Obi-Wan is. She decides to go after Obi-Wan, as a way to get revenge against Anakin (she has no idea what Anakin turned into, and likely has never even heard of Darth Vader). In going after Obi-Wan, she discovers the young Luke, less than 10 years old, and instead decides to go after him. That forces Obi-Wan and Owen to work together to protect Luke.

Obi-Wan is insistent on trying to save this Tusken Raider. He is desperate to believe that she can be redeemed. The two big reasons for that would be 1) he blames himself for Anakin's training and, as a result, what Anakin did to the sand people; and 2) maybe if this Tusken can be saved, it means that Anakin can one day be saved too. Owen hates that Obi-Wan wants to try to convert her. Owen just wants to kill her and get it over with. It's the easiest way to save Luke.

In the end, Obi-Wan does eventually confront the Tusken Raider. He pleads with her to let go of her hatred. To try and convince her, he tells her what happened to Anakin, how his own anger twisted him into Darth Vader. But before she can ever be saved, and before Obi-Wan or the audience knows whether she can be saved, Owen shoots her and kills her. The rift between Owen and Obi-Wan is created; Obi-Wan is resentful of what Owen did, and Owen believes that Obi-Wan is a crazy old wizard for putting Luke in danger for trying to tame a savage.

This movie also marks when Luke meets Obi-Wan. Luke somehow gets a flare for adventure from it, which Owen is also angered by. Owen now sees, for the first time, the full extent of the dark side and Anakin's legacy. He gets a sense of what Darth Vader might be like by seeing this Tusken Raider, and in seeing her understands the legacy that Anakin Skywalker left behind. It makes him really want to shield Luke, and for Luke to have nothing to do with the man that, in Owen's mind, helped destroy Anakin. And though the conflict surrounds Luke, Luke himself isn't much of a player in it, since he's so young.

I have no idea how I would do two more movies, though. One seems like enough to tell the story of Obi-Wan's exile.
 

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So yeah, I am definitely up for a Ben Kenobi movie. Prospero and I were chatting about an idea a few weeks ago, and the gist of it would be that Obi-Wan is, of course, on Tatooine. He is watching over Luke. He has a decent enough relationship with Owen Lars, though they don't really have anything to do with one another. The villain would be a Tusken Raider who was there when Anakin slaughtered her village, and she would have been tainted by the powerful dark side presence that Anakin left behind. As a result, she's sort of a dark side user, but hardly powerful. Her threat comes more from the army of sand people that she would have.

The dark side imprint that Anakin left behind on her would have given her a brief glimpse into his mind. As a result, she knows who Obi-Wan is. She decides to go after Obi-Wan, as a way to get revenge against Anakin (she has no idea what Anakin turned into, and likely has never even heard of Darth Vader). In going after Obi-Wan, she discovers the young Luke, less than 10 years old, and instead decides to go after him. That forces Obi-Wan and Owen to work together to protect Luke.

Obi-Wan is insistent on trying to save this Tusken Raider. He is desperate to believe that she can be redeemed. The two big reasons for that would be 1) he blames himself for Anakin's training and, as a result, what Anakin did to the sand people; and 2) maybe if this Tusken can be saved, it means that Anakin can one day be saved too. Owen hates that Obi-Wan wants to try to convert her. Owen just wants to kill her and get it over with. It's the easiest way to save Luke.

In the end, Obi-Wan does eventually confront the Tusken Raider. He pleads with her to let go of her hatred. To try and convince her, he tells her what happened to Anakin, how his own anger twisted him into Darth Vader. But before she can ever be saved, and before Obi-Wan or the audience knows whether she can be saved, Owen shoots her and kills her. The rift between Owen and Obi-Wan is created; Obi-Wan is resentful of what Owen did, and Owen believes that Obi-Wan is a crazy old wizard for putting Luke in danger for trying to tame a savage.

This movie also marks when Luke meets Obi-Wan. Luke somehow gets a flare for adventure from it, which Owen is also angered by. Owen now sees, for the first time, the full extent of the dark side and Anakin's legacy. He gets a sense of what Darth Vader might be like by seeing this Tusken Raider, and in seeing her understands the legacy that Anakin Skywalker left behind. It makes him really want to shield Luke, and for Luke to have nothing to do with the man that, in Owen's mind, helped destroy Anakin. And though the conflict surrounds Luke, Luke himself isn't much of a player in it, since he's so young.

I have no idea how I would do two more movies, though. One seems like enough to tell the story of Obi-Wan's exile.

I think it's unlikely that Obi-Wan stayed on Tatooine the entire time Luke was growing up... That is, if he had reason to leave at certain times. If there were more movies with him in it, I bet they might show the stirrings of rebellion that are viewed from his perspective, maybe, or maybe one time that he leaves he gets chased after by an Inquisitor or something and then goes back to Tatooine by the end, deciding it's too unsafe to leave again (until, of course, the events of ANH).

Or something. I dunno.
 

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I am almost certain he left when Ferus Olin was doing that rebellion thing in whatever planet that was and he attempted to go their to find Ferus and try and persuade him to stop that rebellion as it wasn't the right time.
 

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I am almost certain he left when Ferus Olin was doing that rebellion thing in whatever planet that was and he attempted to go their to find Ferus and try and persuade him to stop that rebellion as it wasn't the right time.

The Expanded Universe isn't canon so it has no bearing on how they proceed with the films.

I think it's unlikely that Obi-Wan stayed on Tatooine the entire time Luke was growing up... That is, if he had reason to leave at certain times. If there were more movies with him in it, I bet they might show the stirrings of rebellion that are viewed from his perspective, maybe, or maybe one time that he leaves he gets chased after by an Inquisitor or something and then goes back to Tatooine by the end, deciding it's too unsafe to leave again (until, of course, the events of ANH).

Or something. I dunno.

I've heard the idea of Obi-Wan leaving too, and I personally don't like it. There are two big reasons for that:

  1. His reason for being on Tatooine is to watch over Luke. Every minute he's off Tatooine is a minute that Luke could potentially be in danger. Say there's some threat off of Tatooine that Obi-Wan is asked to deal with. What if that event is just a trick by the Emperor to get Obi-Wan away from Luke? What if the person that asks Obi-Wan for help is an agent of the Emperor? And so forth. Unless the writers shoehorn in some serious galactic crisis, which wouldn't make sense in that point in the timeline, I don't really see a reason for why Obi-Wan would leave Tatooine. Which brings me to the second point.
  2. It's far more interesting for Obi-Wan as a character if he commits himself so fully to protecting Luke that he outright dismisses other threats and turns away pleas for help, if those pleas are from off of Tatooine. He so fully invests himself in the idea that Luke is the new hope that he can't bring himself to care about problems that are outside his little corner of the galaxy. We already know from The Clone Wars that the Jedi were willing to allow for short-term losses in order to win in the long-term. The final episode of the show had Yoda acknowledge that the Jedi are going to lose the Clone Wars, but ultimately win victory for all of time. If the Jedi are willing to admit to that, especially after knowing that the clone army was created by the Sith, then Obi-Wan would surely be willing to give up on other people in relatively minor crises in order to fully invest himself in saving Luke.
The second one also allows for interesting character interactions in Rebels. We know from A New Dawn that Obi-Wan left an impression on Kanan. Kanan survived because he heeded Obi-Wan's galaxy-wide warning from Episode III to stay away from Coruscant, and to go into hiding so the clones could not find him. We also know from Spark of Rebellion that he still has a holocron from Obi-Wan saying that the Jedi and the Republic have fallen.

Imagine a scenario where Kanan, who probably holds a great reverence for Obi-Wan, finds him on Tatooine and tries to get him to join the rebel cause. But because Obi-Wan is fully invested in Luke, he rejects Kanan's plea. The time is not right for Obi-Wan to return. He doesn't even tell Kanan why the plea is rejected, he just says no. Kanan leaves disenchanted, unable to see that there is a long-term picture. He becomes the opposite of Obi-Wan, who is unwilling to see the short-term picture. As Jedi who are in exile, they become like two sides of the same coin. Kanan leaves, and he doesn't see Obi-Wan again.

By the end of the series, and in the final story arc if it were up to me, the full Rebel Alliance (which would have been formed by then) has stolen the plans to the Death Star. Bail Organa orders Princess Leia to go to Tatooine to get General Kenobi and bring him to Alderaan, because the rebels desperately need him now that Vader is on their tail and because of the Death Star. Kanan is ordered to go with her, but Kanan questions why Bail would want to get someone who has expressed no interest in joining the cause. That's when Bail tells Kanan the truth. Kanan learns who Leia is, he learns about Luke, and he learns why Obi-Wan is on Tatooine and why Obi-Wan rejected Kanan's earlier pleas. Kanan now knows that there's a much larger picture that he was never aware of. Bail also tells him that Obi-Wan always planned on returning when the time was right, and that Obi-Wan would know that this was the right time - because, for the first time, it's a plea from Bail (through Leia). You can tie that into how Obi-Wan reacts to seeing Leia's message in Episode IV; you can read his facial expressions in a way that says Obi-Wan knows that there's more to this message that meets the eye, and how Obi-Wan so quickly agrees to go to Alderaan - and to take Luke - after seeing the message.

Bail intended to have Kanan there when Obi-Wan came back. Perhaps he thought that it would be a step towards the return of the Jedi. But Kanan never makes it. Vader is pursuing the rebels, and Kanan gives his life so that Leia can make it to Tatooine. The final shot of the series would either be the Tantive IV jumping into hyperspace towards Tatooine, or coming out of hyperspace over Tatooine. Either way, it leads directly into the beginning of Episode IV. And this ending establishes Kanan as someone who was willing to die so the cause could live, and so the cause could be strengthened with Obi-Wan and Luke's presence. In overall arc of the saga, it makes him a key lynchpin in the events of the original trilogy.

So yeah. Tl;dr - it's much better if Obi-Wan doesn't leave Tatooine.
 

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GET HYPE!!!

I want this to be true rather badly....
 

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