{"id":47322,"date":"2020-04-02T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=47322"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:55:41","slug":"obi-wan-kenobi-series-new-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/02\/obi-wan-kenobi-series-new-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+&#8217;s Obi-Wan Kenobi Series Gets New Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/star-wars-joby-harold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/star-wars-joby-harold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone say &#8220;Hello there&#8221; to the new writer of Disney+&#8217;s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi streaming series.<\/p>\n<p>Joby Harold will be taking the storytelling reins of the series, following the departure of Hossein Amini in January.<\/p>\n<p>This news comes via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/obi-wan-kenobi-tv-series-finds-new-writer-1288210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> which states that Disney and Lucasfilm felt that Amini&#8217;s proposed storyline of Obi-Wan Kenobi hiding in the deserts of the planet Tattoine and watching over a young Luke Skywalker may have been treading a bit too close to the story currently unfolding in Disney+&#8217;s <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> series <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Harold is the co-writer on the upcoming Zack Snyder Netflix zombie film <strong>Army Of The Dead<\/strong> as well as executive producing <strong>John Wick: Chapter 3 \u2013 Parabellum<\/strong> and producing <strong>King Arthur: Legend of the Sword<\/strong> and <strong>Trumbo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The writer comes in to chart a new course for the streaming service series.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/02\/obi-wan-kenobi-series-new-writer\/\" title=\"Disney+&#8217;s Obi-Wan Kenobi Series Gets New Writer\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10285],"tags":[751,10724,260],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-news","7":"tag-disney","8":"tag-joby-harold","9":"tag-star-wars"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47322"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=47322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}