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‘The Phantom Menace’ at 25: A Lover, Hater and Newcomer Debate Jar Jar Binks, Podraces, Droids and Darth Maul

Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” debuted on May 19, 1999, few movies before (or since) were greeted with more fevered anticipation. Not only was the movie the first new “Star Wars” movie in a generation, but it was touted as the first of a prequel trilogy charting the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi Knight fated to turn to the dark side as Darth Vader.
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Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi graces the final print cover of EW
Following the first trailer for Disney Plus' new Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ewan McGregor's Jedi character has graced the cover of the final Entertainment Weekly print cover.The 50-year-old actor is seen in his iconic Jedi robes wielding his blue lightsaber as Obi-Wan Kenobi on the cover of the April print issue, which will be the last before EW switches to an all-digital format.McGregor also revealed new details about his character in the series, set 10 years after the events of the 2005 prequel Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Cover:Following the first trailer for Disney Plus' new Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ewan McGregor's Jedi character has graced the cover of the final Entertainment Weekly print cover New details:McGregor also revealed new details about his character in the series, set 10 years after the events of the 2005 prequel Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the SithThe trailer didn't show much of the title character, aside from him keeping a close eye on the young Luke Skywalker on the desert planet of Tatooine.McGregor revealed to EW, 'We find Obi-Wan at the beginning of our story rather broken, and faithless, and beaten, somewhat given up.' The trailer also gives fans a glimpse at the Grand Inquisitor, played by Rupert Friend, who appears for the first time in a live-action series after Jason Isaacs voiced him in the animated series Star Wars Rebels.
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Watch the epic first trailer for Star Wars’ new ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ series
Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+ has been shared.The clip, which you can view below, begins with Ewan McGregor reprising his role as the titular Star Wars character on the sand dunes of Tatooine looking over a young Luke Skywalker before The Phantom Menace theme ‘Duel Of The Fates’ plays out.It goes on to show Obi-Wan’s new nemesis, Inquisitor Reva played by Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit), who comes face to face with Skywalker’s Uncle Owen, played once again by Joel Edgerton.The trailer comes after new images for the series were shared earlier today (March 9).Obi-Wan Kenobi is set 10 years after the events of the 2005 Star Wars film Revenge Of The Sith, where Kenobi witnessed the downfall of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.“We find Obi-Wan at the beginning of our story rather broken, and faithless, and beaten, somewhat given up,” McGregor told Entertainment Weekly of the new series.The show’s director Deborah Chow added of Inquisitor Reva that the character is “ruthlessly ambitious”, while Ingram compared her to the Grand Inquisitor and Darth Vader.“They share a common dark-side goal. They’re on the same team,” she said, before adding that “it’s all heart” in terms of Reva’s ambition.
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Fans suspect YouTube ‘deepfaker’ behind great ‘Book of Boba Fett’ CGI
A YouTuber, after going viral for impeccably remastering and recreating “Star Wars” scenes with “deepfake” editing software, was hired by Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic, according to The Wrap. His jaw-dropping clips first came out last summer — and it didn’t take long for fans to notice.Diehards across the galaxy suspect that the man, known only by the username “Shamook,” is responsible for a noticeable improvement in the computer-generated imagery featured in “The Book of Boba Fett” compared to that from “The Mandalorian” in late 2020.Shamook, who got the CGI job thanks to the popular videos he created of enhanced “Star Wars” characters like Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor/Sir Alec Guinness,) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford/Alden Ehrenreich), was especially known for the touch-ups on Luke in the Season 2 finale of “The Mandalorian.”The connection caused fans to speculate that Shamook was the reason why the de-aged Skywalker appeared noticeably more lifelike during yesterday’s cameo-filled “Boba Fett” episode, compared to how he looked in “The Mandalorian.”“It looked like Shamook’s work on “The Book of Boba Fett” Ep.
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