It is true Ewan McGregor will return to the Star Wars universe to star as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a brand new Disney+ sequence. Set 10 years after the occasions of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, the sequence will supply a deep dive into the psyche of the beloved Jedi mentor and can see him going up in opposition to some extraordinarily acquainted foes.
Lucasfilm and Disney+ revealed a bit extra concerning the sequence on the Disney Investor Day in December 2020. This is every thing we all know concerning the new sequence up to now.
Hayden Christensen will return. Kathleen Kennedy introduced in December 2020 that Hayden Christensen will return as Darth Vader for the sequence, pitting Obi-Wan and his former protege in opposition to one another as soon as once more. Christensen made his first look within the Star Wars universe in Episode II, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, as teenaged Anakin Skywalker. He grew to become the enduring evil Sith Lord in Revenge of the Sith.
The sequence stays untitled. I suppose we’ll simply must hold calling it the Obi-Wan Kenobi Collection on Disney+.
The sequence was placed on maintain. The sequence was scheduled to enter manufacturing this 12 months — at Disney’s D23 Expo in August 2019, Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy said the scripts for the series had been written and the sequence would start manufacturing in 2020 — however Collider reported in January that Disney+ put the series on hold after deciding to remodel mentioned scripts. The sequence is heading again into manufacturing in 2021 after coronavirus-related delays.
As of April 2020, the sequence has a brand new author. Selection reported on April 2 that Joby Harold has been hired to write the show. Harold takes over for Hossein Amini, who departed in January, and this marks his first time writing for a TV present. He has beforehand produced the third John Wick movie and can also be writing the script for Zack Snyder’s Military of the Useless.
It is going to be directed by Deborah Chow. In Sept. 2019, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Chow, who additionally directed two episodes of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, would direct the present. It’s unclear if she’ll be helming the complete sequence or particular person episodes solely.
We do not know when it would premiere, however we do know when it takes place. Because of a handy new timeline revealed throughout the Disney+ panel on the D23 expo, we all know the sequence shall be set throughout the identical time interval as Solo: A Star Wars Story, which Lucasfilm describes as being on the finish of the Age of Republic, aka the period that leads as much as the unique movie trilogy. However then a recent episode of The Star Wars Show and StarWars.com revealed much more particulars concerning the timing of the sequence, and now we now have specifics. It’ll happen eight years after the occasions of The Revenge of the Sith, “the place we final noticed Obi-Wan delivering the toddler Luke Skywalker to his Tatooine homestead.”
This timing naturally has Star Wars followers buzzing as a result of Darth Maul, who was seemingly killed when he was reduce in half by Obi-Wan on the finish of that movie, was truly revealed to be alive in Solo. That is one thing that some followers knew already because of the entire canonical Star Wars TV exhibits and tales which have taken place off the large display. However may this information imply the character will seem on this Obi-Wan sequence? One can solely hope.
Ewan McGregor has been in talks for the sequence for years. It was big information when Disney introduced McGregor would reprise his function within the sequence, however it seems he’d been on board for 4 years earlier than the announcement was made. Throughout these years, McGregor mentioned he needed to lie about his involvement each time somebody introduced it up.
“It is awkward,” McGregor mentioned when he was a visitor on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “The studio and the franchises, they wish to hold every thing completely secret, after all, which I perceive, however because the particular person being requested over and over and over, ‘Would you do it once more?’ And I am already speaking to them about it, however I can not say that I’m… For 4 years, I used to be saying, ‘Properly I might be completely happy to do it once more! I am simply ready for the decision.’ However all of the whereas — it was embarrassing!”
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