We’ve been hearing about Disney Plus’ upcoming Obi Wan Kenobi show for over a year now, but not much has been revealed yet. We know that Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen are back as their early aughts characters and that Joby Harold, who was executive producer on John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, was hired as a writer. But as we wait for Disney Plus to drop the actual plot and full cast, we at least now know that a Star Wars newcomer is joining the show.
On Monday, Deadline announced that Game Of Thrones’ Indira Varma is joining the show. No other details have been released yet, so we’ll have to wait to see who her character is.
As far as the plot, McGregor told Men’s Journal that the “storyline sits between Episode III and Episode IV.” He added a small hint at what fans can expect, saying, “It will be interesting to take a character we know in a way and show him—Well, his arc will be quite interesting, I think, dealing with that the fact that all the Jedi were slaughtered with the end of Episode III. It’s quite something to get over.”
Now what we need to know is if Christensen’s going to have a Mandalorian situation going on where we won’t see his face, or if we’ll see him turn into the Humpty Dumpty-looking Vader.
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Are we sure we don’t mean Torchwood’s Indira Varma? Or even Luther’s Indira Varma?
No, they mean Rome’s Indira Varma
Ah hell, I didn’t think of that one!
God, I loved Rome. One of the best historical melodramas ever.
Kama Sutra’s Indira Varma.
Should I be ashamed that’s why I know who she is? A friend told me about that movie…
not at all, it’s a great movie.
Human Target’s Indira Varma
Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Indira Varma.
That takes me back. When this site did Human Target recaps, the commentariat was united in the belief that Indira Varma’s character, Ilsa Pucci, was the worst.
And when that character left the series, there was a wag who got there first with the comment, “Pucci died on the way back to her home planet.”
Did she leave the show? I thought she was part of the revamp of the second season, which was the last season. So, she left along with the whole show. I liked the show though the revamp, in which they pretty much swept the back story/mythology they’d been working on under the rug, was not as good the first season. AVClub should do an inventory for revamps that didn’t work. This would be on it as would Ghosted.
Shit, you might be right. It has been a decade, after all.
Human Target’s Indira VarmaDefinitely this. She’ll always be Mrs Pucci to me.
They mean Doctor Who’s Indira Varma.They just don’t know it. See? That blue box is a good fit.
Bride and Prejudice’s Indira Varma
“Well, his arc will be quite interesting, I think, dealing with that the fact that all the Jedi were slaughtered with the end of Episode III. It’s quite something to get over.”Okay, that made me laugh.I imagine Mcgregor with a huge grin saying this. Like, I doubt he gives a shit about Star Wars beyond the paycheck, and good for him.
b b b but why do you assume he doesn’t like the wars of star?
He’s definitely been in enough films that displayed his higher acting talents and ability (as well as ones with better scripts than Lucas gave him) so I totally don’t mind him having a ball with these Star Wars moneymakers. He did seem like he was having a lot of fun in “Clone Wars” and that makes sense, cause his storyline was probably the only worthwhile part of that movie besides Christopher Lee. Kamino, the cloning, Obi-Wan being a detective, fighting Jango Fett etc. all of that could have been a much better solo movie. Clone Wars had some good parts, which were reconstituted into a much better group of animated shows, but a lot of people just remember the Anakin/Padme nonsense because it was so cringy.
The romance in Attack of the Clones can be incredibly hard to sit through. Although, the last time I watched the film, it became a sort of cringe comedy. I’ll admit to quoting Anakin’s line about sand quite a bit. (And he’s right, too. Sand is awful.)
Obi-Wan being a space detective was the only redeeming feature of Episode II.
It’s probably the second worst Star Wars movie, but it begins and ends with a couple of great action set pieces. This is faint praise, but I would much rather rewatch Attack of the Clones than Rise of Skywalker ever again.
I agree, I think it would have worked much better as a solo Obi-Wan movie with some Christopher Lee and Yoda bits, and they just mention whatever Anakin and Padme are up to through some reports.
Obi-Wan is very funny in that movie. When he shows up at the secret clone base and they’re like “Oh, you must be the Jedi they sent to inspect this secret base we’ve been building and working on for 30 years.” “That’s… why I’m here!”
His quiet grilling of Jango Fett while young Boba lurks in the background is also great. There are a few quiet scenes in these movies where Lucas just lets the actors act (the “Anakin is the father, isn’t he? I’m so sorry” scene in Episode III is another one) where you can see what that trilogy could have been.
I love that scene with Obi-Wan and Padme in III. It shows that Obi-Wan knew there was something going on with the two of them all along, and thus, Obi-Wan wasn’t a fucking clueless idiot like most of the rest of the Jedi, and also that he cares about both of them and feels horrible that Padme is in that awful position. Portman and McGregor are both good there.
Anakin’s line about sand is awful, but that scene made me kind of hate Padme too. Like, she’s reminiscing about swimming in this lake & lying around on the beach as a kid to a guy who grew up as a literal slave. Like damn, check your privilege, your highness!
And there’s the fact that she completely falls for him after he admits to slaughtering a village of Sand People, including the children. Those movies are deeply weird, but that’s always why they occasionally pull me back. They’re bad in somewhat inexplicable ways rather than the usual boring ways that movies are terrible.
Nah he was having fun on the prequels, he was early to say when Disney started making stuff that he was up to be Obi-Wan again. There’s a bit in the Episode I doc where does a stunt fall onto some padding, kips right up and says “So my agent says do I wanna be in Star Wars and I say too fuckin’ right!”They also filmed a bit with him picking out his lightsaber prop from a selection and that was cute.
He is one of the few actors who survived that trilogy largely unscathed.
Also, George Lucas kept having to tell him to shut up because whenever he was using a lightsaber, he kept making the sounds himself. However much the prequels sucked, Ewan is still the best.
I fell like he was one of the only one who really did give a shit, that’s why he was so good. He figured out fast that Lucas was only going to give him a couple of takes and he’d better nail his lines in them.
Did they ever even tell us if she survived in GOT? Or are we to assume she just rotted in jail?
Considering who was keeping her in jail, and where the jail was? Yeah she’s dead.
The Keep fell on her long moldering corpse.
Cersei was committed to keeping her alive until her daughter rotted and turned to dust in front of her so it’s possible depending on the timeline between her capture and the destruction of Kings Landing. It also depends on her cell not being collapsed by rubble.
Cersei doing her villain monologue, and letting her mask slip with that little “Why did you do that?” where you can see her come this close to letting all her grief pour out before she composes herself? My god, Lena Headey was SO amazing on that show.
Hello?
Hello?
It got really hot and noisy in here and now I haven’t seen anyone in days. Is anybody out there?
Hellooo?
Totally. “Hello? … Was that dragon roar I just heard? Yara? Yara are you still here? We never got to finish making out.”
My first thought was Satine Kryze but she’s dead by the time of Episode III.I’ll just dumblink since Kinja can’t seem to handle inline links at the moment:
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Satine_Kryze
I love her in anything, though hopefully she doesn’t get another largely thankless role like she did in “What Remains” or “Luther” or “Carnival Row” though at least in the first one she got to chew some scenery and dish out some lethal lines. She’s a great actress in need of some roles that show off her talents more comprehensively.
Let’s hope they put more effort into the narrative logic on this one than they did on The Mandalorian. I love that show’s tone and aesthetic but story- and character-wise it’s almost totally inert.
Careful. The fanboys will condemn you to planet Trope for your heresy.
Stop Making Star Wars• Star wars was never meant to be given sequels• YEARS of expanded universe, yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going after ROTJ• Wanted to go longer anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that, it was called SWINGING AROUND A STICK AND MAKING BUZZING NOISES
• “Yes, I love Bo-Katan. Obi-Wan comes from Stewjon” — Statements dreamed up by the utterly DerangedLOOK at what Lucasfilm has been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the clout we have built for them (This is REAL Star Wars, done by REAL professionals): ?????????????????????????“I want Ms. Varma to play Satine from Clone Wars please”They have played us for absolute fools
Star Wars had a Holiday Special and a sequels novel like a year after it was released. It was always made for merchandise and sequels.
You’re such a loose laser cannon, SpaceCop!
If you want people to take your unhinged rant seriously, you really need to end with “EDKH!”
I for one have absolutely earned the right to whine about too many SW projects, given the amount of time I’ve spent whining that there wasn’t enough of them.
Counter-point: No
I hope for the sake of your own mental health that you’re doing a bit.
Umm… You do know that Disney paid a metric fuck ton of of money for this IP, right? And that Disney is a corporation, so their executives have a fiduciary responsibility to monetize that IP without regard for artistic merit, right? The end result is that literally none of your complaints matter (even if they may be completely correct). And we can take this a little further, too. Those rumors that Disney is going to retcon the entire Sequel Trilogy? That’s probably going to happen. If Time Warner gets a lot of views from the Snyder Cut, and these Star Wars shows keep producing Mandalorian levels of engagement, it is a virtual certainty.
I was in complete agreement with everything you wrote, but you lost me with your disgusting taste in book covers. The only true Star Wars book is the one that recognizes Lobot as one of the main protagonists.
You know that *not watching* is an option, right? I mean, unless you are in some kind of Clockwork-Orange-Robot-Chicken chair, you could simply find something else to do.
Don’t respond…… IT’S A TRAP!
Sounds like it’s time to defund the Space Cops.
You could, and I know this is a massive stretch, just stop watching and reading about Star Wars?
That smells a lot like For Life has been quietly canceled behind the scenes, and they’re just waiting for a good time to announce it.
Excerpt Kenobi:
“Hey you! Get out of here! Scoot!”“Oh, shut up, you crazy old hermit!”
So, she plays a sexy Jedi?
So, she plays a sexy Jedi?
It will be interesting to take a character we know in a way and show him—Well, his arc will be quite interesting, I think, dealing with that the fact that all the Jedi were slaughtered with the end of Episode III. It’s quite something to get over.It will be ten episodes of him looking for a nice cave to live in on Tatooine.
I give her way more credit for being on LUTHER and ROME than I do GoT