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Link Tank: Sung Kang Will Weild a Lightsaber in Obi-Wan Kenobi

We’re not sure if he was allowed to say this much, but The Fast Saga star Sung Kang gave us some major clues to who he might be playing in Obi-Wan Kenobi. “Actor Sung Kang revealed to Screen Rant his mysterious character in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series carries his own lightsaber, lending credence to previous rumors that the Fasts and Furious actor would play a member of the Imperial Inqusitiorius.” Read more at Gizmodo In honor of his 40th birthday, here are the greatest Donkey Kong games ever made. “Nintendo didn’t make much noise about it, but the Donkey…
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Does the Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Cast Point to a Young Luke Skywalker Cameo?

Some fans thought this day would never come but it’s finally happening: Ewan McGregor is returning to the role of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in a Disney+ live-action series set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith. That means we’ll meet an older Obi-Wan in exile on Tatooine but not quite the same age as Sir Alec Guinness in A New Hope. The fact that the show takes place during a largely unexplored period in the Jedi’s life should provide some exciting narrative opportunities for director Deborah Chow and writer Joby Harold. Interestingly enough, McGregor won’t be the only returning…
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Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader Had a Rematch Before A New Hope

After Obi-Wan Kenobi defeated his former apprentice Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith, we assumed this was the last time they saw each other until their fateful duel on the Death Star in A New Hope. We were wrong. In fact, Hayden Christensen is set to return as Darth Vader in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+, which is set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith, to confront Obi-Wan, completely shattering what we thought we knew about each character’s history leading up to A New Hope. “This will be the rematch of the century,” Lucasfilm…
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Ewan McGregor Updates on the Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Series, Possibility of a Standalone Season

While an update on the Disney+ Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi spinoff series has been overdue for quite some time, new comments from its role-reprising headliner, Ewan McGregor, seem to imply that the show’s 2021-scheduled production still has the high ground over the proverbial Dark-Side-turned apprentice of delays.   McGregor paints an auspicious picture about the Obi-Wan Kenobi series in a podcast interview with Empire, which is the latest example of the dribs and drabs of updates that have been slowly surfacing about the long-gestating project. Indeed, set to work under the auspices of director Deborah Chow (The Mandalorian, Lost in…
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Star Wars Blaster Canon Podcast: The Rise of Skywalker, The Clone Wars, Kenobi

Mid-lockdown, Den of Geek’s Star Wars experts talk The Clone Wars and The Rise of Skywalker news. Episode IX is out in home release, and Paul breaks down the merits of the different versions, including the digital, physical, and 4k editions. He has high praise for the physical version, laying out an argument for sticking with physical discs to preserve the dynamic look of the film and avoid the grainy look of the digital version. Plus there’s just something about having it sitting on your shelf as part of a larger collection… We have relatively few new tie-in books or book…
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