Obi-Wan Kenobi lead Ewan McGregor says the upcoming Disney+ limited series will not disappoint Star Wars fans. A project seeing McGregor reprise his beloved role of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was rumored for years before being confirmed as a series at Disney’s D23 event in 2019. While plot details are being kept under wraps, it has been confirmed that the series will take place eight years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2006), picking up with “Ben” Kenobi during his exile on Tatooine. On top of that, Obi-Wan will also see the return of Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, making it perhaps the most anticipated Star Wars property on the horizon.
In addition to Christensen and McGregor, the cast includes Maya Erskine, Bonnie Piesse, Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, and Benny Safdie playing so-far unknown characters. Joel Edgerton will also reprise his role as Owen Lars, while Kang's character is rumored to be an Inquisitor. Filming of the show began earlier this year after numerous delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and reportedly wrapped back in August. Given that timeline, Obi-Wan Kenobi is likely to arrive sometime in 2022. In the mean time, the next live-action Star Wars series to premiere on Disney+ will be The Book of Boba Fett this December, with Andor and The Mandalorian season 3 likely to come after that.
Following his win at the Emmy Awards on Sunday for Netflix’s Halston, McGregor spoke with Deadline about the upcoming Obi-Wan series. The actor and executive producer teased that the show won’t disappoint. McGregor went on to praise the "new technology" used during filming, saying the experience was "different" to making the original Star Wars prequel trilogy. Read what he had to say below:
“We finished shooting our series, and it was really, really good fun. I really enjoyed working with [director/executive producer] Deborah Chow, and I think it will not disappoint ... The new technology that we employed doing it is cool, and it was a different experience than making the original three films that I did."
Obi-Wan’s production took place in L.A., shooting at one of The Volume locations, a massive indoor soundstage equipped with a 360-degree virtual set. This innovative technology is presumably what McGregor is referring to. Despite it being a big-budget Disney and Lucasfilm production, the Obi-Wan cast has described an indie-like atmosphere on set created by director Deborah Chow. Chow directed some of the most well-received episodes of The Mandalorian season 1, including "Chapter 3: The Sin" and "Chapter 7: The Reckoning.”
A hope for Obi-Wan Kenobi is that explores its eponymous character’s failure as a mentor, putting Obi-Wan, Anakin/Vader, and the far-reaching implications of Order 66 at the heart of the series. It should further bridge the gap between the animations and live-action, adapting material from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels. Rumors persist that characters like Rosario Dawson’s Ahsoka Tano and Commander Cody will be appearing in the series. In many ways, fans have been waiting for this show ever since the credits rolled on Revenge of the Sith, so expectations remain high for what the series will bring.
Source: Deadline
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