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‘Kenobi: A Star Wars Story’ teaser imagines a solo movie starring Jedi

Kenobi: A Star Wars Story Teaser
There’s been talk of an Obi-Wan Kenobi spinoff movie for quite a while now, and although Disney and Lucasfilm don’t seem too keen to move in that direction, that hasn’t stopped fans from speculating about the possibilities of a solo adventure featuring Anakin Skywalker’s famous mentor.

One fan went so far as to create a faux teaser for Kenobi: A Star Wars Story a nonexistent solo film featuring Ewan McGregor as Kenobi. In It, he wanders the deserts of Tatooine and keeps watch over Luke Skywalker from afar.

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Assembled with clips from various Star Wars movies and other films, Kenobi is a surprisingly good trailer for a film that doesn’t — and likely won’t ever — exist. Along with sampling from Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, the film also features a lot of McGregor from the 2015 film Last Days in the Desert, in which he played Jesus Christ.

The teaser for Kenobi: A Star Wars Story was created by Canadian filmmaker Rich Williamson, and uploaded to Vimeo. In response to a comment on the video, Williamson explained why he made it and what he hopes to see from the Star Wars “anthology” films like the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

“I’d love if Star Wars started doing different genres, especially with the ‘Star Wars Story’ films,” he wrote. “One film might be a heist movie, one a horror, this one [is] more of a meditative Western. Shake it up.”

So far, the only two Star Wars anthology films that have been officially confirmed are this year’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the upcoming, still-untitled Han Solo movie (possibly titled Han Solo: A Star Wars Story?) that will explore the early years of the famous smuggler and his Wookiee co-pilot. Alden Ehrenreich will play the young Han Solo in that film, which hits theaters in 2018. A solo film featuring the bounty hunter Boba Fett has also been rumored as a potential anthology installment down the road.

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