Rumor: Obi-Wan Movie Already in Pre-Production; Could Come out December 2020

Lucasfilm found success with the release of Star Wars anthology film Rogue One, and their hoping to catch lightning again with Solo: A Star Wars Story. A lot of fans have been clamoring for an anthology film focused on Obi-Wan Kenobi, and rumor has it that pre-production for the film has already started.

According to a source from Fanthatracks:

The project is sufficiently along that an art department is now in full pre-production mode at Pinewood Studios, England with ancillary work being carried out at Industrial Light & Magic in London. A number of concept artists, prop modellers, and storyboard artists are working as a team across the two locations on the film, with the group growing in numbers every month.

Contracts have also been extended to a number of crew who have worked on various Star Wars films produced at Pinewood under the Disney era, to join the production when their work on Episode IX ends. This will see the Obi-Wan crew grow gradually over the remainder of the year but primarily from October on wards.

Pre-production will continue at Pinewood whilst Episode IX shoots from this summer through the end of the year, at which point production of the Obi-Wan movie has been scheduled to move onto stages in mid January 2019 with the main shoot to begin in April of 2019.

The project is being developed under the corporate name of PLT Productions (UK) Ltd.

The scheduled release date is December 2020.

This seems like a realistic release date for the film, and the written down timeline kind of makes sense. However, some people are still choosing to take this news with a grain of salt as Lucasfilm has yet to announce an Obi-Wan spinoff film.

For now, the timeline for Star Wars movies seems a bit open-ended for 2020. We still have no idea what could come after the release of Episode IX. Besides the anthology films that have been coming out, we're also expecting a trilogy from Rian Johnson as well as a series of Star Wars films from Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff.

The Obi-Wan anthology film is yet to be announced by Lucasfilm.

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