Obi-Wan Kenobi movie gets a working title

Recently, Lucasfilm announced that a Star Wars stand-alone movie centering on Obi-Wan Kenobi is in the works, with Stephen Daldry, the Oscar-nominated director behind Billy Elliot and The Hours, in early talks to helm. The news had Star Wars fans in ecstasy and now they’ll be even more pleased to hear that the project is moving forward with its working title revealed.

According to Omega Underground, the movie’s working title is Joshua Tree. It refers to Joshua Tree National Park, California, which is very close to where A New Hope originally filmed its Tatooine scenes. Obi-Wan also has history on the planet, having been introduced there in 1977’s Star Wars.

We can therefore assume that Obi-Wan has been spending his time on Tatooine after the events of Revenge of the Sith. Other recent working titles for Star Wars films include Space Bears for The Last Jedi and Red Cup for Han Solo movie.

Ewan McGregor, who played a young version of Alec Guinness’ Kenobi in the 1999 prequels, is keen to return to the role, telling EW and Collider:

“To play Obi-Wan Kenobi again would be something I would love to do in one of the spinoff movies. I’ve always said that I’d be happy to do it if they wanted to do it. It would be fun to film that story now [that] I’m older. I’d be the right age. I’m forty-five, Alec Guinness was what, sixty? I could do two of them!”

The project is someway off casting though, as THR’s “sources say talks [with Daldry] are at the earliest of stages and that the project has no script”. The next Star Wars spinoff to arrive is the Han Solo movie, which is scheduled for 25 May 2018.