you know, we've seen me at the end of episode iii take luke skywalker to uncle owen and aunt beru on is ten years later. and the jedi order has all but been destroyed. everyone else who wasn't destroyed in order 66 is in hiding. so i've been, you know -- and i'm carrying the guilt, or obi-wan is carrying the guilt of having failed anakin and lost anakin to the dark side. so he's a bit of a -- he's a bit of a mess, you know. he's at a very low point. >> mike: yeah. >> and sort of in hiding. he's not being a jedi. he's, you know -- he's pretty bleak-minded. and then something happens. and he has to decide to help someone do something or not. >> mike: wow. >> that's the series. [ laughter ] >> mike: that sounds great. i can't wait to see that. so do you find -- you do such varied things. do you find there's a collision ever of like your motorcycle documentaries and your "star wars" stuff, does that ever find -- >> oh, well this scene that i'm talking about where i deliver luke skywalker. it was -- like i said, we did episode iii in sydney. so my "long way" buddies came over -- we hadn't

they're trying to make the case that luke skywalker is not luke skywalker. that's preposterous. >> what do you think the impact of it is? >> i think they shoot themselves in the foot with this. when russia or putin says he wants to denazify ukraine, he's saying he wants to deukrainianize ukraine. they're trying to destroy the ukrainian people in some fashion and that's very, very dangerous. >> absolutely. i was just seeing fresh reporting from barbara starr at the pentagon that the top russian general, the chief of staff of the russian military that according to barbara starr, he was recently in ukraine according to a u.s. defense official. the way it was put to barbara was we know he was in donbas for several days beginning last week but the u.s. is uncertain we he traveled to the russian front line and what signal it send what could it have meant? >> the general traveling to ukraine, it's rare to see the chief of all russian forces to actually go to ukraine. what it signals is things are not going well for the russians and we've seen that. we've seen that

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. >> in the interconnected -- of the mandalorian, luke skywalker's appearance. >> we had to create false scripts, fake artwork. we did visual effects to change the appearance of the actor that was standing in for mark hamill himself. >> the reason for it is to protect the fans that want the experience of seeing the story play out in front of them. >> six decades since george lucas created a galaxy far, far away. >> this enduring intergenerational thing is something we have to make sure does not get lost. the more people we bring in, it fits into the vision of what this whole franchise should be. liz: disney is the parent company of disney plus and abc 7. still to come on abc seven mornings, the latest on the war in ukraine. russia is now in the critical phase of their offensive in the city of odessa. marking 100 years since the lincoln memorial was dedicated. a look at the important backed up to events in american histor when it comes to cybersecurity, the biggest threats don't always strike the biggest targets. so help safeguard your small business with comcast business securityedge™ it

who then turned to the dark side as darth vader now obi-wan has his jedi eyes on anakin's son luke skywalkermust be trained like you trained his father. mcgregor says since his star wars trilogy played out. he's felt more love for the film. from the kids who love them and so over the years they've grown up and i'm more and more i hear from people that the prequels are like their star wars films, you know and their relationship to my star wars films is like the relationship i had. with carrie fisher and mark hamill and harrison ford's films when i was a kid. so that made me feel really warm about them again. there's definitely pressure with this project. you know, we're taking these huge iconic legacy characters and we're in between two trilogies, you know, so there's a there's a very big responsibility to the canon and you know, we truly wanted to respect everything that george had done but at the same time obviously we're trying to tell a new story. we've told a story that is complete it has a beginning in the middle and an end and whether you know the backstory or not it or maybe encourage

. >> reporter: in the interconnected world of "the mandalorian," luke skywalker's appearance the mostto create false scripts, fake artwork, we even did visual effects to change the appearance of the actor that was standing in or for mark hamill himself. >> the whole reason for it is to protect the fans who really want the experience of seeing the story play out in front of them. >> reporter: six decades since george lucas created a galaxy far, far away, its latest architects committed to fans past and present. >> this enduring intergenerational thing is something we have to make sure doesn't get lost. the more "star wars" grows and the more people we bring it, the more it fits into the vision what this whole franchise should be about. >> reporter: for "good morning america," kaylee hartung, abc news, los angeles. >> the intergenerational thing is so true. now i can watch the series with my daughter and she was interested in going back and watching movies from the '70s. so just love it. >> it just keeps getting better. especially "the mandalorian." >> and baby yoda is cute. >>> we'll b

. >> jimmy: fans want to know if we'll see obi-wan kenobi interact with a young luke skywalker [ cheers is pretty good. [ light laughter ] the fans are gonna look into that fans are hoping to see exploration of the galaxy and other planets. [ laughter ] wow. okay, right, that was an exhale but then swallowed it back you swallowed it back. >> yeah. >> jimmy: it came out, and then you go, "nope. >> i didn't want to repeat -- i didn't want to repeat myself >> jimmy: no, of course. yeah oh, fans want to know if there's a new droid sidekick [ audience oohs wow! [ laughter ] that got a shift that got a shift and a flip. >> there might be. >> jimmy: that got a shift and a flip 'cause that's always fun, if there's a new -- >> shift flips >> jimmy: no, yeah but no, but if they -- the ship lapse. [ talking over each other yeah, it's like a flip shift yeah if there's a new -- a new droid. a new little buddy to hang out with that's kind of fun okay [ laughter ] fans want to know if we're going to see obi-wan try to redeem darth vader [ audience oohs wow! that one got a steel -- like blue steel look