The Disney Plus showcase at last year’s D23 Expo brought a ton of exciting announcements about what was to come on the streaming service’s roster of original content, but perhaps the biggest moment of the panel came when Ewan McGregor took the stage to finally confirm his return as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Both fans and the actor himself have been asking for this to happen for over a decade now, and with Disney and Lucasfilm doing away with the Anthology movie concept thanks to the poor critical and commercial reaction to Solo: A Star Wars Story, a limited series on the aforementioned platform seemed like the next logical step. In fact, it looked like things were running pretty smoothly, too, and that all the pieces were falling into place. Which only makes what we’re about to tell you all the more surprising.
According to the folks over at FandomWire,...
Both fans and the actor himself have been asking for this to happen for over a decade now, and with Disney and Lucasfilm doing away with the Anthology movie concept thanks to the poor critical and commercial reaction to Solo: A Star Wars Story, a limited series on the aforementioned platform seemed like the next logical step. In fact, it looked like things were running pretty smoothly, too, and that all the pieces were falling into place. Which only makes what we’re about to tell you all the more surprising.
According to the folks over at FandomWire,...
- 1/17/2020
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
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