Something happened this week that no one — and I mean no one — could ever have expected.
Ewan McGregor set foot on a Lucasfilm stage, and his first words weren’t “hello there.”
It’s like they’ve never even been on the internet before.
But, I digress. Arguably the biggest news coming out of this weekend’s D23 Expo was confirmation of the long-rumored Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series, which will start filming next year and air on Disney+. It will join a streaming lineup featuring The Mandalorian and a still-untitled show starring Diego Luna as Cassian Andor and Alan Tudyk as K-2SO, both of which we also learned more about, including the first trailer for Jon Favreau’s wild western:
A complicated profession, indeed.
Arguably, though, The Mandalorian might not have even been the biggest highlight of the weekend (depending on what Star Wars project you’re most excited about right now), as Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and The Rise of Skywalker director JJ Abrams unveiled the first poster for the upcoming end of the Skywalker saga, and treated panel attendees to a sizzle real that featured, among other things, an image of Rey holding a double-bladed red lightsaber. The footage will be available to the public on Monday (likely right now, to be honest), so get those conspiracy engines up and running!
Are you tired of reading this news post yet? Cuz I’m tired of writing it. And yet, we continue on, because we have hope. There was even more unveiled at D23 Expo, including a first look at Vader Immortal: Episode II, the follow up to May’s inaugural at-home VR experience that launched on the Oculus Quest (though no release date was forthcoming). We also got introduced to the Halcyon, and Chandrila Star Line luxury cruiser that will play host to Galaxy’s Edge’s most exclusive attendee experience and allow parkgoers at Walt Disney World to completely immerse themselves in the galaxy far, far away. As if that wasn’t enough, D23 Expo also gave the world our first look at the newest First Order special forces trooper: the Jet Trooper. Oh, and the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be coming to Disney+ in February, 2020.
And that was just everything since Friday. Earlier in the week, we were treated to:
- A look at the international roll-out schedule for Disney+ later this year
- A second excerpt from Delilah S. Dawson’s upcoming novel Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire, which comes out this Tuesday 8/27
- A sneak preview at this week’s Age of Resistance comics from Marvel, featuring Poe Dameron and General Hux
- The news that the evidently-not-failing-and-about-to-be-rebranded Galaxy’s Edge has been named one of TIME Magazine‘s World’s Greatest Places for 2019
Ok, time to go drink a protein shake to recover from this ridiculously long news post. The things we do for you people.
