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Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge: Created by Steve Blank, Scott Bromley. With Sam Witwer, Mary Holland, Frank Oz, Ahmed Best. Three teams of Jedi Padawans compete in challenges of strength, knowledge, and in the Jedi Temple itself where one team will complete the journey to become Jedi Knights.
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- 2020-06-10
- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Sam Witwer, Mary Holland, Frank Oz
- Development
- Promotion
- Release
- Reception
Conception
Jedi Temple Challenge was the brainchild of Lucasfilm employees Steve Blank, Scott Bromley, and Mike Capoferri. During an interview on The Star Wars Show, co-star Ahmed Best confirmed that Blank, Bromley, and Capoferri had given him considerable flexibility in developing the main character Jedi Master Kelleran Beq including his history, mannerisms, and lightsaber color. Best confirmed that Master Beq was related to Achk Med-Beq, whom Best had portrayed during a brief cameo appearance in Star...
Production
According to The Star Wars Show host Anthony Carboni and Lucasfilm writer Kristin Baver, Jedi Temple Challenge was modeled after the "big-production" kids' game shows of the 1980s and 1990s. The series was filmed on a Los Angeles sound stage. Each episode consisted of three rounds, with participants progressing through several obstacle courses in a faux forest to obtain lightsaber parts, undergoing a quiz in a starship set, and enduring through a second set of obstacle courses to obtain kyber...
The show's first trailer was released on May 27, 2020 on the Star Wars Kids YouTube channel and The Star Wars Show. Co-hosts Ahmed Best and Mary Holland, who played Master Kelleran Beq and his droid companion AD-3, also promoted the show during an interview with The Star Wars Showhost Anthony Carboni. During the interview, Best confirmed that a key...
The first two episodes of Jedi Temple Challenge were originally going be released on the Star Wars Kids website and YouTube channel on June 3, 2020. The series consists of ten episodes. However, Best later issued an Instagram post announcing that the series' release had been delayed until June 10 due to the George Floyd protests. The series was als...
Matt Patches of Polygon described Jedi Temple Challenge as a "dream come true," saying that he "spent every second of it seething and shrieking with joy." Patches likened the series to the Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple. Matt Fowler of IGN found that the series' incorporation of Jedi lore worked well with its Legends of the Hidd...
To celebrate the premiere of Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, which debuted today with the first and second episodes on Star Wars Kids, StarWars.com went behind the scenes, spending a day on set and chatting with Best and his co-star Mary Holland about their experience stepping into these new roles. Jedi Temple Challenge host Ahmed Best with ...
Jun 2, 2020 · "Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge" debuts Wednesday. The series, 10 episodes in all, was originally slated for the Disney+ subscription streaming service, but Lucasfilm says this way, more kids ...
Aug 7, 2020 · For more on Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, check out StarWars.com’s previous coverage: Go inside the making of the series with Ahmed Best and more; Create your own Padawan bracers with StarWars.com’s easy craft; Learn 20 hidden Easter eggs, straight from the creators of Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge
"Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge brings together the best of Star Wars – competitive spirit, harrowing obstacles and a hero's triumph over challenges — in a totally new format for the ...
Jun 3, 2020 · June 3, 2020. Update, June 3, 2020: Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will now premiere with two full episodes on June 10, 2020, on StarWarsKids.com and the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel. Original story, published May 27, 2020: Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge, the new game show set in a galaxy far, far away, will soon arrive in our own.
