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McGregor Reveals Obi-Wan Kenobi Filming Start and Episode Count
10/25/2019



Obi-Wan Kenobi actor Ewan McGregor has confirmed exactly when the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars series centred on the character is set.
McGregor, who appeared in George Lucas' prequel trilogy in the early 2000s, is reprising his Jedi role for the small screen venture which was confirmed during this summer's D23 Expo.

Speaking to Men's Journal, McGregor revealed the exact place of the series in the Star Wars timeline, despite admitting he wasn't allowed to say anything about the project.
"The storyline sits between Episode III and Episode IV," he said, before going on to explain what was going on with the character when he was last in the role.
"The Jedi Order was falling apart," he continued. "It will be interesting to take a character we know in a way and show him – well, his arc will be quite interesting.


https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a29590247/star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-series-ewan-mcgregor-timeline/
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None of this Star Wars stuff interests me anymore. It wasn't meant to be milked like this. Maybe I've just aged out.
 
RicardoCooper said:
None of this Star Wars stuff interests me anymore. It wasn't meant to be milked like this. Maybe I've just aged out.
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Disney is making George Lucas’ slow deliberate rollout of content look like the instincts of a genius. Worse than brand fatigue, each “new venture” trots out nostalgia instead of an original concept. Where are all the good ideas?
 
ryanpaulstewart said:
Disney is making George Lucas’ slow deliberate rollout of content look like the instincts of a genius. Worse than brand fatigue, each “new venture” trots out nostalgia instead of an original concept. Where are all the good ideas?
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The reason you don't see good ideas is that storytelling has taken a back seat to social agendas and profit maximization. Some business analysts at Disney/Lucasfilm came up with the strategy to focus on acquiring "new" fans to grow the brand (females, millennials, kids, etc.) and they assumed the old fans would just go along with anything they did. Unfortunately, for everyone, this strategy was not thought out because "new" fans don't have the same loyalty that old fans had, and old fans can barely recognize the franchise they used to love. I predict that Episode 9 will do pretty well but overall the brand will continue to receive diminishing returns, which will prompt Disney to officially hand over the reins to Kevin Feige.
 
Thump said:
The reason you don't see good ideas is that storytelling has taken a back seat to social agendas and profit maximization. Some business analysts at Disney/Lucasfilm came up with the strategy to focus on acquiring "new" fans to grow the brand (females, millennials, kids, etc.) and they assumed the old fans would just go along with anything they did. Unfortunately, for everyone, this strategy was not thought out because "new" fans don't have the same loyalty that old fans had, and old fans can barely recognize the franchise they used to love. I predict that Episode 9 will do pretty well but overall the brand will continue to receive diminishing returns, which will prompt Disney to officially hand over the reins to Kevin Feige.
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Apt assessment of the failed methodology behind “Disney Star Wars”.
 
Thump said:
The reason you don't see good ideas is that storytelling has taken a back seat to social agendas and profit maximization. Some business analysts at Disney/Lucasfilm came up with the strategy to focus on acquiring "new" fans to grow the brand (females, millennials, kids, etc.) and they assumed the old fans would just go along with anything they did. Unfortunately, for everyone, this strategy was not thought out because "new" fans don't have the same loyalty that old fans had, and old fans can barely recognize the franchise they used to love. I predict that Episode 9 will do pretty well but overall the brand will continue to receive diminishing returns, which will prompt Disney to officially hand over the reins to Kevin Feige.
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Star Trek Discovery is also chasing the elusive "new fans" while alienating the old.
 
RicardoCooper said:
I won't go into detail as this thread is geared towards Star Wars, but let's just say everything you know about Star Trek has been discarded.
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Wow, it actually sounds pretty good. I love it when entire shows focus on thinly veiled social and political issues...

This is why I haven’t watched blackish. I feel shows like that exist so that white liberals can get their weekly dose of white guilt, while trying to gain some “allies” points.
 
At last, a new trailer for The Mandalorian is out today.

Here's how Disney describes the series: "After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. 'The Mandalorian' is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from the authority of the New Republic."



 
The Game Of Thrones showrunners Benioff and Weiss have "exited" their Star Wars trilogy project. They say that the deal they signed with Netflix is going to take up all of their time.

I personally think they were either scared off by Kevin Feige or Lucasfilm fired them because they were put off by the debacle of the last season of GOT.

If it's true that they just rather create something new at Netflix instead of being the architects of the next generation of Star Wars films, it really speaks to how far the Star Wars brand has diminished.

https://deadline.com/2019/10/star-w...id-benioff-d-b-weiss-exit-trilogy-1202771184/
 
EA and Respawn Entertainment have rolled out the official Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order launch trailer.
The third-person action adventure game is being released on November 15, 2019 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC via Origin .


 
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Disney+ is offering one final look at the Mandalorian before the series premieres on the streaming service tomorrow, November 12th.
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I just watched the first episode of the Mandalorian, I really enjoyed it, the end of the episode was very shocking (but not in a shitty way like The Last Jedi).
Holy shit a baby Yoda!
 
Thump said:
I just watched the first episode of the Mandalorian, I really enjoyed it, the end of the episode was very shocking (but not in a shitty way like The Last Jedi).
Holy shit a baby Yoda!
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I found the first episode so enthralling that I watched it three times. The good news is that episode 2 goes up on Disney+ this Friday!
 
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