# Obi Wan Kenobi series to start filming in March, {Now showing as of June 2022} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [October 11, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748 "2020-10-11T22:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/201 "2022-06-09T19:35:56Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I think the Senate is still around as a fig leaf, and the Empire isn’t _quite_ ready to rip it up. We know that for a fact. Governor Tarkin announces that the Senate has been dissolved in _A New Hope_, and it seems to come as a surprise to the rest of the Imperial officers in the meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/202 "2022-06-09T19:54:49Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Governor Tarkin announces that the Senate has been dissolved in _A New Hope_ But he didn’t mention if he meant “in a vat of acid”. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/203 "2022-06-10T00:13:46Z")
I really like Jimmy Smits but he does not seem like a good choice for Bail Organa. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/204 "2022-06-10T00:38:29Z")
FWIW, he’s been the actor who’s played the role every time it’s been part of a live-action SW project: - He first appeared as Organa in _Attack of the Clones_ - He played the character again in _Revenge of the Sith_ - He then returned to the role in _Rogue One_ ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/205 "2022-06-10T01:09:58Z")
The whole story of Jimmy Smits in Star Wars is pretty interesting. Basically, when George Lucas hired him to be in Attack of the Clones, Smits thought the role would be significant. In the end, almost everything he filmed was cut out. Episode III? I think he has a few lines. Despite that, he has had a chance to play it again in Rogue One and now in Obi-Wan. Kind of interesting how things work out. Nothing big, but he has had a chance to be in Star Wars somewhat often. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/206 "2022-06-10T02:39:08Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Basically, when George Lucas hired him to be in Attack of the Clones, Smits thought the role would be significant Chiefly, since that’s what Lucas told him. And paid him accordingly. But during the prequels Lucas was tinkering with the story almost till release date, with some shots being done only weeks before release. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Despite that, he has had a chance to play it again in Rogue One and now in Obi-Wan He is also in _Andor_ ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/207 "2022-06-11T12:56:07Z")
The CGI in the hangar was distractingly bad – I’ve seen better in _Legends of Tomorrow_. The CGI has been good (or at least good enough for me) up until that point, but it was such a jarring change it took me out of the story. Checking for tracking devices should be SOP after escaping an Imperial base/ship. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/208 "2022-06-11T13:07:27Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Checking for tracking devices should be SOP after escaping an Imperial base/ship. This incident explains how Leia was confident the Millennium Falcon was being tracked the next time (or third or fourth…who knows) she was rescued from an Imperial base. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/209 "2022-06-11T16:06:13Z")
Placing tracking devices just IN CASE the hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned heroes escape is one of the few things the Empire gets right. That and dropping everything to yell TRAITOR!!! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/210 "2022-06-11T16:41:00Z")
I was listening to a podcast where they suggested that Reva is where Vader got the idea to plant a tracker on the Falcon years later. The Jedi in the crypt/trophy case? Was that going to be a Jurassic Park amber/cloning situation? Man loves his clones. Also, Vader _shouting_? Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/211 "2022-06-11T20:56:17Z")
Some behind the scene footage on greenscreens. > **[r/StarWarsLeaks - BTS Footage of Clonetroopers and Jedi in the opening shot of...](https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/v8vwzi/bts_footage_of_clonetroopers_and_jedi_in_the/)** > > 2,923 votes and 232 comments so far on Reddit ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/212 "2022-06-11T21:50:04Z")
Technically, that’s a _blue_ screen, even though though, yes, the technique is often call “green screen” (although that most technically correct term is “chroma key”). ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/213 "2022-06-11T21:50:21Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > The Jedi in the crypt/trophy case? Was that going to be a Jurassic Park amber/cloning situation? Man loves his clones. Cloning blood for Palpatine? Like they tried later to do with Grogu after Palpatine’s death? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/214 "2022-06-11T22:28:26Z")
Any colour can be used for keying, but blue and green have won out. Blue used to be the only colour used (because it isn’t found in flesh tones (also the sky is handily blue)) and then green began to be common after James Cameron filmed most of his movies under a blue lighting scheme and needed a new colour. With digital filmmaking, green is now much easier to key out than it used to be (as long as it’s vivid and clean) but even so, blue gets used occasionally, I’m sure for appropriate technical reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/215 "2022-06-11T22:29:48Z")
I was more thinking making clone Jedi. Or just studying the midichlorians? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/216 "2022-06-12T00:34:08Z")
Or trophies, hunting those Jedi is literally their only reason to exist. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/217 "2022-06-14T06:42:44Z")
McGregor is like Tom Cruise he doesn’t look too much older than he did 30 years ago. Alec Guinness was always one of those people who looked “older” even when he was younger. This weekend [Bridge on the River Kwa](https://www.amazon.com/Posterazzi-Bridge-River-Guinness-Poster/dp/B07GWN4XSW)i.was playing on TV. This was done when he was 42, so 20 years before Star Wars, or in other words almost exactly the time between the end of the Prequel and the start of the Original trilogy. He looks older than McGregor now, despite being (at the time) a decade younger. I wish they had copied that look for ROTS. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/218 "2022-06-15T19:54:12Z")
Finally, someone does something more than just _hold_ a thermal detonator. Also, people shown doing bladed weapon training are always swinging at each other with all they’ve got. But they never seem to accidentally kill each other. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/219 "2022-06-15T21:45:18Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Finally, someone does something more than just _hold_ a thermal detonator. Well, it isn’t the [first use of a thermal detonator](https://youtu.be/5HO70-Rk3jE&t=4m5s). Stranger ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748/220 "2022-06-15T22:16:08Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Also, people shown doing bladed weapon training are always swinging at each other with all they’ve got. But they never seem to accidentally kill each other. I think lightsabers have a training setting. They’d have to, right? No one in their right mind would give younglings a deadly weapon and have them train in close proximity to each other, would they? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obi-wan-kenobi-series-to-start-filming-in-march-now-showing-as-of-june-2022/922748.md?page=12)