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Riley: David West Reynolds Return to Tatauine

Scott: ROTJ 1983 print – Walmart Arcade – ESB retro Figures – https://www.cnet.com/news/star-wars-retro-collection-throws-back-to-the-empire-strikes-back/

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Obi-Wan is back? Resistance ends! And the GoT guys are out? We talk all about it on this week’s SWR podcast!

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1. Ewan McGregor to Return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Disney Plus Series

   1. Ewan McGregor is in talks to return as Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi in a series for Disney Plus, Variety has confirmed.
   2. No other details on the potential series were available. McGregor previously played the character in the three “Star Wars” prequels “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones,” and “Revenge of the Sith.” There had been talk for years that McGregor would return in an Obi-Wan standalone film, but those plans were reportedly put on hold following the unsuccessful roll out of “Star Wars” standalone film “Solo.”
   3. Reps for McGregor and Disney Plus did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment.
   4. The Obi-Wan series would be the third live-action “Star Wars” show on Disney Plus. The nascent streamer has previously announced “The Mandalorian” from Jon Favreau starring Pedro Pascal as well as a series based on Cassian Andor, the character first introduce in the film “Rogue One” with Diego Luna reprising his role from the film.

2. ‘Star Wars’: Benioff & Weiss Deal Altered, Rian Johnson “Moving Forward” from Legacy Characters

   1. On the D&D front, it actually appears that the duo will not be as hands-on as expected. Though the original plan called for Benioff and Weiss to pen all three installments, a note in a THR report on the pair’s mind-boggling $250 million Netflix deal claims they are writing an overall treatment while aiming to also pen “at least one” of the films.
   2. Sources say the Thrones pair is writing a treatment for a Star Wars trilogy and is committed to penning at least one of the films (the original deal was to write all three). It’s unclear if the duo, who also have another feature for Fox/Disney carved out, will do more than just write for Star Wars.
   3. As for Johnson, the Last Jedi director confirmed that he’s looking to “move forward” from the main players of the 42-year-old Skywalker Saga while also digging into the “essence” of what makes Star Wars, Star Wars.
   4. “I think that the fun and challenging part of it is to dive in, figure out what’s exciting and then figure out what it’s going to be,” he said. “We’re doing something that steps beyond the legacy characters. What does that look like? To me, the blue sky element of it is what was most striking about it. I know the way that I’m coming at it and what’s fun about it for everyone in George Lucas’ films is figuring out, ‘what’s the next step?’ It really makes you think and figure out what the essence of Star Wars is for me and what that will look like moving forward.”

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Riley breaks down the contrast already forming between Anakin and Obi-Wan in the most recent episode of The Clone Wars.