Yes! As long as they get Ewan, and I think he’s said he’d be happy to do it, this is the standalone Star Wars movie I most want to see.
I’d still prefer one about the young Yoda, but I’d be happy with both.
I’m at a loss to figure out what the setting will be for this one. It can’t be between the prequels, since Anakin would have to be there too. So as a padawan or before that? Or will it just be him hanging out in seedy bars and establishing his “crazy old wizard” persona on Tatooine?
Yeah, I’d love to see something about the 500-year-old Yoda. 
Obi-Wan, the movie. Good, that is!
It will almost certainly be between Ep 3 RotS and Ep 4 A New Hope. Thus, before the prequel and original trilogy – which makes MacGregor the perfect age.
I’ll assume he wasn’t just hanging out on Tatooine for 20 years or so – they’ll find some things for him to do.
There’s no real story to tell between 3 and 4. ‘Hiding from Anakin on Tatooine’ is not exactly interesting.
The most interesting Obi-Wan story that hasn’t already been told is before he met Anakin - his time on Mandalore as Satine’s bodyguard/lover.
Why does he have to stay on tatooine for 20 years? There are tons of potential stories they could tell. I would think a small scale story, like a western, would fit well.
This would be great. And finally tell the story of how he visited her during the Clone Wars, accidentally impregnated her, and their secret love child was then shuttled off to be adopted by…Clan Wren. And named Sabine.
Okay, maybe I made that up, but that’d be awesome.
Well, he said “I will take the child and watch over him.” And cruising around the galaxy trying to right small wrongs, knowing that Vader is looking for him, when he’s supposed to be keeping an eye on their last/new hope doesn’t seem like a bright move.
Having said all that, you’re probably right.
He shows up in that setting in the comics and in a recent episode of Rebels.
Gonna feature Tusken raiders.
Obi-wan:“they’re retreating…surely not to regroup in greater numbers”
Audience:“haw haw haw I get that reference! [shoves fistful of popcorn in mouth]”
Also, Jabba the Hut.
There could well be a threat to Luke elsewhere that he has to deal with, or perhaps even better, some unrelated threat, to Kenobi himself or to someone he cares about, that forces him to make a decision whether to temporarily abandon his duty on Tattooine in order to deal with it.
What the fuck are they gonna do, Obi-Wan’s childhood?
Enough with the prequels about characters we already know the fates of. We know that no matter what happens, Obi-Wan is going to live at the end to die aboard the Death Star, so what’s the point?
At least Rogue One took an interesting premise and took some risks. We didn’t know the names of the Rebels who stole the plans, or what happened to them. We already know that, no matter what happens in this Obi-Wan prequel, he lives, and then dies later fighting Vader. What’s there to tell that would be worth telling?
I want a movie about Yoda’s childhood on the planet Yod. I bet that he used to have a thing with Yaddle.
There’s more to a story than whether the main character lives or dies.
It’s not hard to imagine that some interesting things might have happened with Obi-Wan in the 20 years between III and IV – Disney realizes that (with good writing) there are potentially a million great stories that could be told in this universe, with old characters or with new characters, and this is just one of the most obvious characters and time periods to fit one in.
Ben and his brother Jerry Kenobi start a successful blue ice cream company on Tatooine.
Obviously, it’s going to be about that time he opened a nightclub in Shanghai.
There’s no urgency, for me, in a story where I already know the ending.
Perhaps it will explain why Kenobi is an inverterate liar ("…from a certain point of view,") and borderline incompetent (“Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.”) Other than that, I can be enthused enough to care. Disney is going to milk its Star Wars property for every bit of fan service appeal it can until that cow runs dry and dies, just like Paramount and Star Trek.
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