Strike him down and he’ll change into extra highly effective than you’ll be able to presumably think about — and he may get his personal spinoff too. Star Wars followers have been eagerly anticipating an Obi-Wan Kenobi present since growth started in 2017, and now it’s lastly occurring.
Titled Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Disney+ restricted sequence is ready to premiere in Could 2022 and can star Ewan McGregor as a youthful model of the character performed by the late Alec Guinness within the unique movie trilogy. The present was initially conceived as a feature-length movie, however in 2019, Disney determined to make it a TV sequence as an alternative.
The Moulin Rouge! star performed Obi-Wan within the Star Wars prequel trilogy that started in 1999, and he was thrilled to get again within the character’s robes.
“I beloved taking part in him once more,” the Scottish actor instructed Forbes in February 2022. “I imply, it’s fairly attention-grabbing, after the expertise of constructing the primary three movies and residing by way of type of their reception on the planet, which wasn’t all the time glowing, I’ve to say. After which now, assembly the technology who we made these movies for, the youngsters then — and now, individuals of their late teenagers or early 20s, these individuals who had been [the] youngsters who we made these movies for, they beloved them. To them, they’re their Star Wars movies, you already know?”
Plot particulars are after all wrapped in secrecy, however producers have confirmed that the present takes place 10 years after the occasions of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. On the finish of that movie, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) accomplished his transformation into Darth Vader after a duel with Obi-Wan. His spouse, Padmé (Natalie Portman), gave beginning to twins Luke and Leia, who had been later separated for security functions.
When the brand new present begins, Obi-Wan will likely be on the planet Tatooine watching over younger Luke, who was despatched to stay along with his Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton) and Aunt Beru (Bonnie Piesse).
McGregor confirmed that Christensen is ready to return as Anakin, however he refused to disclose any extra particulars about what may occur within the sequence. “I’m not going to provide away the rest in regards to the story line, solely I feel it’s actually going to fulfill Star Wars followers,” he instructed Forbes in the identical interview. “I feel we crafted or they crafted a really positive story line. I feel persons are going to love it.”
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