Oh, piffle. You young people and your love of action.
I see this as a quiet ‘day in the life’-type film. Showing him waking up, making breakfast, maybe shuffling down to the market afterwards to chastely flirt with the old widow that sells produce. Then binging his newly purchased supplies for a quiet lunch with the Skywalkers and toddler Luke. Maybe with a long after-meal discussion on the philosophy of passive resistance to tyranny. Then we would have an extended, mostly silent reverie filled with long shots of the desert at sunset as he volunteers to walk out to the edge of the property and repair a couple of moisture evaporators. Then home again for a modest dinner in front of old-fashioned log fire after which he relaxedly disassembles, cleans and then reassembles his light-saber. Followed by bed, after another day well-spent.
It’s be GREAT :p. I anticipate a Crying Monkey award at the Beijing film festival.
And because it hasn’t previously been referenced, here is a perfect example of the kind of inter alia films Disney should be making, filling in the gaps in an otherwise inconsistent story.
Obi Wan is like a Man With No Name figure during this time. And Tatooine has been the most anthropologically developed of the planets in Star Wars lore, with Tusken Raiders, jawas, Banthas, Sarlaccs, Jabba the Hutt and his Bounty Hunters, the scum and villainy of Mos Eisley, and much more besides. There’s a wealth of backdrop to use for a great story that has no direct impact on the established Skywalker saga. It will be a one-off (at minimum) stand-alone that can be about anything, but use an incredible range of Star Wars iconography.
That guy was already in Rogue One. He’s getting ideas above his station.
You say this like a joke, but all those characters and more not only got novels written about them, but comic books and more. It got a bit crazy for a while.
I have a vague memory of Cindel being a journalist that is referenced in a few of the EU books (or maybe the RPG books). For a while in the late 80s, the Ewok TV movies were the only Star Wars movies I had on VHS (shitty copies recorded from TV, ads and all), and I watched them obsessively. Haven’t watched them in years, but I imagine a stick fight between Wilford Brimley and a 7 foot orc-alien doesn’t hold up very well.
Yeah, one book briefly mentioned her as a throwaway joke. That’s no longer canon (if it ever was) so she’s free to be whoever now. I like to think of her as being a bit of a galactic eco-warrior, helping oppressed primitive cultures defend themselves against the encroaching First Order.
For me, the biggest red flag is Stephen Daldry, who hasn’t made a film yet that I didn’t strongly dislike. He takes on big themes and gets good performances from (albeit already talented) actors, but all his movies devolve into unfocused, pretentious muddles.
