Finally, Lucasfilm is going to make a solo Obi-Wan Kenobi movie, and we are all very excited to know how things shape up when the iconic Jedi makes a big screen comeback.
While the film hasn’t yet gone into production, fans are already going crazy with their Sideshow Collectibles and a new expensive statue of old Uncle Ben has come up which is based on a period between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
The Obi-Wan Kenobi statue from Sideshow Collectibles is from The Star Wars Mythos, and it has not been available in the market for quite a while now. However, the official Star Wars Website has announced that the Sideshow Collectible’s Mythos Line is back and a 1:6 scale Obi-Wan Kenobi statue is available.
The latest Obi-Wan stature has an armor from the Clone Wars period which is perched atop Obi-Wan’s backpack, and the lightsabers of Anakin and Qui-Gon can be seen dangling below it.
Check it out below:
However, there is more to it. The best feature of the statue is its facial mold. Sideshow Collectibles have created an amalgamation of Obi-Wan stars Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor to come up with this face.
“We gathered reference from many of (Guinness’) older films, as well as images from A New Hope and tried to blend the two. As we progressed though, it became clear that approaching the likeness this way wasn’t reading as Obi-Wan,” Sideshow’s Kevin Ellis said. “It was a great likeness of young Alec Guinness, but younger Obi-Wan doesn’t look like young Alec Guinness, he looks like Ewan McGregor! From there, it was about finding that balance between aging down Alec Guinness’s features from A New Hope, and adding in some of Ewan McGregor’s features from the end of Revenge of the Sith.”
We wonder whether this new Obi-Wan figurine will find its way into the upcoming spinoff film and are certainly hoping for the same.
The film based on Obi-Wan doesn’t have any title, and no release date has been announced for it, but, we will let you know as soon as the information becomes available. As of now, The Last Jedi will be the next film from Star Wars which will release on December 15, 2017.
