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After 45 years of voicing one of the most iconic characters in cinema history, James Earl Jones has said goodbye to Darth Vader. At 91, the legendary actor recently told Disney he was “looking into winding down this particular character.” That forced the company to ask itself how do you even replace Jones? The answer […]
RELATED STORIES As it readies to begin filming in April, Disney+‘s Obi-Wan Kenobi has rounded out its cast with a few familiar faces — including two more actors from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, in which Ben Kenobi faced his […]
RELATED STORIES As it readies to begin filming in April, Disney+‘s Obi-Wan Kenobi has rounded out its cast with a few familiar faces — including two more actors from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Set 10 years after the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, in which Ben Kenobi faced his […]
RELATED STORIES Doubt, you shall no longer have. Star Wars filmmaker Kathleen Kennedy and franchise vet Ewan McGregor took the stage at the close of the D23 Expo on Friday evening to announce/confirm that the Scottish actor will reprise his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a live-action series for Disney+. In fact, Kennedy touted that […]
If you just felt a great disturbance in the Force, you’re not mistaken: Ewan McGregor has signed on to play Star Wars icon Obi-Wan Kenobi once again in a new series for Disney+, according to our sister site Deadline. The series — slated to hit Disney’s upcoming streaming service, which launches in November — is […]
Ahead of his appearance in the movie Christopher Robin, Ewan McGregor appeared on the American TV panel show The View. McGregor was part of the Star Wars franchise prequels, movies which were panned by audiences and critics alike. He played a young Obi-Wan Kenobi (to Alec Guinness older iteration in the original trilogy). Did Ewan […]
Solo: A Star Wars Story is out in two months’ time, as the first anthology tale in the franchise since Rogue One in 2016. A couple of key details have surfaced online over the weekend – firstly an unexpected, albeit tenuous, link to Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. A children’s book entitled Train Heist has […]
Johnson himself has a new trilogy on the way for the Star Wars universe, as do the writers of Game of Thrones. But there is also constant speculation about films relating to older, legacy characters – most prominently Obi-Wan, but also Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt. Solo: A Star Wars Story – an origin […]
(Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: Mark Hamill is completely wrong about Luke Skywalker and the Jedi.) Star Wars: The Last Jedi is easily the most divisive movie the iconic sci-fi saga has ever seen. Hardcore Star Wars fans are having endless debates […]
Lucasfilm While we wait for the Obi-Wan Kenobi standalone movie, let’s celebrate his recent appearance on the small screen. One of the highlights from season 3 of “Star Wars Rebels” was the “Twin Suns” episode. This self-contained story within the season focuses on Ezra’s journey to Tatooine to track down Ben Kenobi, the reclusive Jedi […]
