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In the wake of the “unnamed sources” rumor report about an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie being in development at Lucasfilm, with Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry in early stages of negotiation to join the project, a number of news outlets, blogs, et cetera, rushed to judgment.
Specifically, words like “confirmed” and “official” and the like were bandied about.
Here’s the thing: Nothing has been “confirmed.” Nothing is “official” until Lucasfilm and/or Disney say it’s so.
Back in Episode 1,053 in May 2017, I talked about my list of trusted Star Wars news sources on the podcast. One of them was Vanity Fair, but only for a specific reason – because of the cover stories they tend to do on the saga films. (And wouldn’t you know it, their cover story on The Last Jedi debuted within two days of me saying that on the podcast.)
That brought to mind for me the fact that I had said I liked Collider for the interviews that they score with Star Wars peeps – but not necessarily for their reporting. For i09, I talked about Katharine Trendacosta’s articles about the new Star Wars novels, and the things from the old EU (now “Legends”) that are making their way back into the new canon. But again, nothing about their reporting. And as for Mashable, I flagged the awesomeness of Chris Taylor, their senior editor and the author of How Star Wars Conquered the Universe. But stopped there.
With the reporting on the Obi-Wan movie, I was reminded exactly why I drew the lines I drew for Collider, i09, and Mashable. Which I’m explaining in today’s episode!
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I would love to see an Obi Wan movie! There is so much depth there to explore, his own sense of betrayal, his desperation to keep Luke & Leia safe, even really a skewed sense of justice — after all he and Yoda are guiding Luke into unwitting patricide. Not really a nice thing. Let’s also not forget a great tidbit back from “Clone Wars.” In one episode when Mandalorian Duchess Satine’s life is in danger, her obviously eluded to relationship with Obi Wan comes to a head when he reveals, “If you had just asked, I would left the order for you.” Granted, CL is not considered canon, but WOW!, wouldn’t that be something to explore. Not to mention, the bit of hypocrisy of him frowning on Anakin’s relationship with Padme given that context.
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Hi Cindy! Thanks for the comment. And CW is totally considered canon (the Dave Filoni one, not the Genndy Tartakovsky one), so the Satine business is absolutely on the table. I think she, Obi-Wan, and Qui-Gon were together and on the run and in hiding for the better part of a year, and that’s when Obi got so close to her.
And I said this on the podcast where I covered that episode, and I’ll say it here again – that was a jerk move by Obi to try to lay the blame/guilt on Satine’s doorstep on that one. It wasn’t hers to ask, it was his to decide. He let me down on that one. 🙂