Anthony Breznican of Entertainment Weekly recently noted on the Rebel Force Radio podcast that Lucasfilm hasn’t moved forward with plans for an Obi-Wan standalone because there’s apparently more for him to do in the main sage.

“I have heard rumors that the one reason they haven’t moved sooner on Obi-Wan is that they’re not done with Obi-Wan quite yet in the Saga films. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see an Obi-Wan thing happen beyond Episode IX.”

Of course as Breznican said himself, this is only just a rumor at this point, but it’s certainly not hard to believe. Obi-Wan did play a small part in “The Force Awakens” after all.

During Rey’s force vision which she experienced after touching Luke’s lightsaber, Obi-Wan Kenobi can be heard talking to Rey as he says, “Rey, these are your first steps.” The voiceover was a mixture of Ewan McGregor’s voice, and old recordings of Alec Guinness.

How much involvement the Obi-Wan Kenobi character will have in “Episode VIII” and “Episode IX” remains to be seen, but there’s no shortage of fan theories out there. Many fans have subscribed to a popular theory that examines the possibility of Rey being a descendant of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but we’ll just have to wait and see how that plays out.

The speculation surrounding Rey’s lineage has been one of the most exciting things about the Star Wars revival, and if the rumors are true about Obi-Wan Kenobi, then it certainly seems that theories regarding Rey being a descendant of Kenobi shouldn’t be counted out just yet.

Ewan McGregor certainly hasn’t been shy about letting people know he’s interested in making an Obi-Wan standalone film. During a recent interview Ewan McGregor said he believes there’s a story to tell between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope.”

““I’ve always thought there was a story to tell between my last one and Alec Guinness’ first one. It would be fun to film that story now I’m older. I’d be the right age. I’m forty-five, Alec Guinness was what, sixty? I could do two of them (laughs)!”

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McGregor made a brief appearance in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” when he recorded some dialogue for Rey’s flashback scene saying “These are your first steps.” Now rumor has it that Obi-Wan Kenobi might be appearing as a force ghost in “Episode VIII.”

An unsourced rumor coming from Kristian Haloff of Collider has a lot of people talking.

“Grain of salt: hearing that Ewan Mcgregor in talks to play Obi Force ghost in Episode 8.” Harloff tweeted.

It’s not much, but as you can see, it doesn’t take much to get people talking about “Star Wars.” As far as the saga goes, there are a few characters who look like they could use some advice from a force ghost Obi-Wan Kenobi so it certainly wouldn’t be hard to fit them in.

Ewan McGregor recently spoke to Jimmy Kimmel about recording his audio cameo for “The Force Awakens” and he seems enthusiastic about doing more “Star Wars” in the future. So there’s that as well. You can check out the clip below.

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