With Disney’s untitled Han Solo Star Wars standalone film approaching the finish line, Disney is now looking to tell the story of another iconic character in a galaxy far, far away.
Disney is in early development on a film centered on Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi and is in talks with Billy Elliott Stephen Daldry to direct.
There is not yet a script or a writer and it’s currently unknown if this will be the next standalone story in the Star Wars universe. Disney has been developing several standalone films with the goal of keeping fans buying tickets while they wait for the next episodes in the main new trilogy. Rogue One was the first of the standalones, and Disney is currently shooting an untitled origin tale of beloved smuggler Han Solo. Some of the other standalones in development include a Jabba the Hutt story and a Boba Fett movie.
Obi-Wan has appeared in the first six Star Wars films, first played by Alec Guinness in Episodes 4-6 and then by Ewan McGregor in Episodes 1-3. Kenobi is best known as the Jedi master who first trained Anakin Skywalker, who would later turn to the dark side and became Darth Vader. Kenobi would then go on to train Skywalker’s son Luke before falling to Vader in Star Wars: A New Hope.
