Given that Lucasfilm was sold to Disney for $4 billion dollars and the company plans to make a “Star Wars” movie every year for god knows how long, we’re going to be seeing a lot of films set in a galaxy far, far away. Two more “Star Wars” saga films are on the way — Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII” and Colin Trevorrow’s “Episode IX” — and coming in 2018 is Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s still-untitled Young Han Solo movie. From there, a Boba Fett movie is waiting in the wings somewhere (Josh Trank was initially going to direct), there’s also been talk of a Yoda movie, an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie and director Guillermo del Toro even said he’d love to make a “Godfather”-style movie about the Jabba The Hutt clan. And with “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” about to hit theaters, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and the rest of the core story group will spend the early part of 2017 coming up with what’s next beyond the films that have been officially announced so far.
During the ‘Rogue One’ junket this past weekend at Lucasfilm in San Francisco, I asked director Gareth Edwards what other kind of “Star Wars” movie he would want to get made. The ‘Rogue One’ and “Godzilla” filmmaker said he’d love to see an Obi-Wan Kenobi film set on Tattooine in the “wilderness years,” when he was entrusted to watch over Luke Skywalker in exile after the Jedis had been mostly wiped out.
“I would love to see anything with Obi-Wan Kenobi in it,” he told The Playlist in our exclusive interview. “Someone did a really cool illustration online of a half Ewan McGregor, half Alec Guiness; you couldn’t tell the difference. It was like the wilderness years. I just saw that image and I thought, I would love to… that would be interesting. Sort of a samurai movie or something a little bit lonely. Like a very simple one, not an epic battle. Something more lonely and maybe an incident nearly got to a young Luke Skywalker, or who knows…”
Was Edwards planning on making another pitch to Lucasfilm? Could he be gearing up to direct another “Star Wars” movie?
“No,” he said with definitive clarity. “I feel like I’ve won the lottery and as a lottery winner it would be unfair to spend all my money on lottery tickets, so I have to walk away.”
An Obi-Wan Kenobi lost in the wilderness years? Yeah, we’d buy a ticket to see that. Have an idea for a “Star Wars” film you’d like to pitch? Why not try the comments section below.
“Rogue One: A Star Wars” movie opens on December 16th.
