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Ewan McGregor Takes the Long Way Up for Apple TV+

Wherever Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor goes, a certain bearded Jedi follows. In 2019, when McGregor and his travel writer friend Charley Boorman arrived in a small South American town (McGregor thinks it was in Peru) amid a long motorcycle journey, so too did a legion of fans excited to meet Obi-Wan Kenobi.  “We were in a small town and there are these long winding steps all the way up to this  famous lighthouse,” McGregor says. “We were going up and someone asked for an autograph. I was happy to do that. Then the same thing happened on another flight…
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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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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Netflix Film Reveals Cast with Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, More

Netflix has officially unveiled the cast of director Guillermo del Toro’s rendition of classic tale Pinocchio; an impressive lineup that’s notably highlighted by A-listers such as Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton. The film will utilize stop-motion as the means to update the often-adapted tale famously conveyed by author Carlo Collodi’s 1883 serial story collection, The Adventures of Pinnochio, and, of course, Disney’s iconic, culturally-cemented 1940 animated Pinocchio film. Additionally, the plot will carry some newfound historical gravitas by moving the story’s traditional time setting to a World War II-era backdrop, focusing on the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s…
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Conor McGregor: Notorious

Recommended Conor McGregor: Notorious:McGregor is a fascinating enough figure, and as pure an example of the visualize success' method as there is. It's been said that his whole MMA modus operandi was to get in, get paid, and get out'. I'm not sure he'll hold to that ethos, but he was enough into the visualization trip to start filming this movie on his way up, rather than as a retrospective. In fact he and director Gavin Fitzgerald got so much of a jump on things that the end of the documentary unravels in quite surprising fashion.So inasmuch as this is…
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