Another day, another Star Wars rumor.
By now, it's pretty well established that Disney is following the Marvel Studios playbook in plotting the course of its shiny new franchise from a galaxy far, far away. While fans secretly hope that the landscape doesn't become oversaturated with too much Star Wars, there is plenty of reason to be hopeful. (J.J. Abrams managing to entice the entire original cast back for Episode VII chief among them.)
Today, Jordan Maison of geek blog Cinelinx is reporting that he has it on good authority that Disney and Lucasfilm are seriously considering turning one of their planned "character spotlight" films into a trilogy — all centering on Obi-Wan Kenobi. Maison is quick to point out his personal suspicion that his source may be mistaken, and that Disney is simply fielding multiple story ideas for a single Kenobi film, but he says his source is quite adamant that a Kenobi trilogy is a serious possibility.
The potential films would not be interconnected, according to this inside source, but would rather be three standalone films which all happen to focus on Obi-Wan Kenobi. All three would be set during the 19-year period between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
But this begs the question: What kinds of trouble could Obi-Wan really get into at a time when he's supposed to be living in hiding and keeping watch over young Luke Skywalker? One movie's worth of adventures could be excused — some sort of crisis comes up, forcing him to take a brief excursion from Tatooine — but three times? Granted, 19 years is a long time. But still.
Here's an even better question: Regardless of whether they do one movie or three, can Disney/Lucasfilm convince Ewan McGregor to return? He's already the right age for the movies' timeframe, and fans universally agree that he was one of the few good things about the prequels. But McGregor hasn't exactly been silent about his disappointment with the prequel trilogy, a disappointment he shares with Star Wars fans. It would probably take a lot of convincing to lure him back, yet it's impossible to imagine more big-screen adventures for this character without McGregor's involvement.
Would you be on board with an Obi-Wan Kenobi trilogy?
