Kyle Newman Discusses The Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie & Star Wars: The Last Jedi Predictions

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On the August 18, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Ben Pearson and Brad Oman join Peter Sciretta to discuss the Galaxy Quest tv show news, and in the feature presentation we are joined by filmmaker and Star Wars fanatic Kyle Newman (Fanboys, Barely Lethal) to discuss the big news that Disney is developing an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie and in the Mail Bag we answer a question about lingering Force Awakens questions and what we want and expect from Star Wars: the Last Jedi. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). In the News: ‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Series Is Back on Track with Paul Scheer Writing In Our Feature Presentation, filmmaker and Star Wars fanatic Kyle Newman (Fanboys, Barely Lethal) joins us to talk about the big news: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Getting a ‘Star Wars’ Spin-Off with A Surprising Director Are we excited about this Star Wars anthology movie? Thoughts on director Stephen Daldry When could this take place? What could it be about? Are there any Obi-wan stories, canon or non canon we’d like to see? In The Mailbag: Marc Godsiff from the UK asks “Really excellent podcast by the way!I'm wondering if you guys have specific ideas about the plot of The Last Jedi? Who is Snoke, why is Luke on Ahch-To, who are Rey's parents etc? Over on Talk Star Wars we speculate about these things and I'm always keen to hear the thoughts of other Star Wars fans. Once again, great podcast and thank you for the hard work that goes into producing it!” To submit questions to the mailbag, send them to peter@slashfilm.com. Please mention your name and general geographical location in case we mention the question on the air. Some other great features from the site mentioned in the episode include: Why J.J. Abrams Believes the Force Is More Inclusive Than Midi-Chlorians and Bloodlines Watch Kyle Newman’s Star Wars live radio plays Smuggler’s Bounty and Smuggler’s Revenge. You can find all that and more at slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). This podcast is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. We’re still very much experimenting with this podcast, please feel free to send your feedback to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for August 18th 2017 on today's show
0:05.8	we'll be talking about a little news the Galaxy Quest TV series written by Paul Shear
0:11.0	but what we're really going to be talking about in our
0:15.0	future presentation is the big news about the OB-1 canobe movie and in the
0:21.3	mailbag we'll be talking more Star Wars of what we expect and hope from Star Wars, the last Jedi.
0:28.0	On me for the new, on with me for the news is Ben Pearson.
0:34.0	Hey, what's up?
0:34.7	And Brad Omen.
0:36.2	Hey there.
0:37.8	So Brad, this News About the Galaxy Quest TV series broke today.
0:42.1	You wrote it up for the site. What do we know? I did and I was
0:46.6	so excited to see the story break because I have been sitting on this information
0:51.1	for months. It's something that I've known about but was not able to talk about just for you know
0:57.6	reasons of journalistic integrity if you will. Yes. So yeah I was so glad that this new story finally got out there.
1:05.0	By the way, a lot of people don't realize that.
1:07.0	When you get, um, to have a lot of friends in the industry, you get to know about a lot of stuff that you can't necessarily talk
1:14.2	about and it's quite disappointing actually. Yeah exactly and this is one of
1:19.6	those cases but the Hollywood reporter was able to get this story today that
1:22.4	Paul Shear who is one of the co-creators of Human Giant and he's a
1:26.7	co-star and writer on the league and he appeared in a bunch of TV shows and movies
1:31.2	is writing the Galaxy Quest TV series that Amazon and
1:35.1	Paramount Television have been developing for a while now. This is something
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