Obi-Wan Kenobi rides throughout Tatooine on this idea artwork for the Disney Plus present.
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We’re a number of chapters into Disney Plus Star Wars present The Book of Boba Fett, however it will not be the one journey we take to Tatooine in 2022. Iconic hero Obi-Wan Kenobi shall be getting his personal sequence someday this yr, with actor Ewan McGregor returning to the position he performed within the prequel trilogy.
Disney and Lucasfilm introduced the present again in 2019 D23, and listed here are all the small print we have realized since.
When is Obi-Wan Kenobi out on Disney Plus?
The launch date is someday in 2022, the corporate confirmed in a particular Disney Plus teaser It’ll encompass six hour-long episodes, McGregor mentioned final yr, and he advised ET that it is deliberate as a single-season present.
Disney usually drops episodes onto its streaming service on a weekly foundation, not like the full-season drop method Netflix takes for its exhibits.
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When within the Star Wars timeline is it set?
It’ll happen 10 years after Revenge of the Sith and 9 years earlier than A New Hope, in an period after the Jedi Order has been all however worn out.
Obi-Wan, as he is seen in A New Hope. He will not look fairly this previous within the Disney Plus present.
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Who’s Obi-Wan Kenobi?
If you actually do not know, it is best to watch a number of Star Wars films. The fast model: Obi-Wan Kenobi is a Jedi grasp who first appeared on display in 1977’s A New Hope, performed by Alec Guinness. This film noticed him serving to younger Luke Skywalker take his first steps into the bigger world of the Force. Later in that film, Obi-Wan was struck down by his former apprentice Darth Vader, who was in the end revealed to be Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father and a Jedi turned to the Dark Side.
Despite his dying, Obi-Wan returned as a spirit (a Force ghost, in Star Wars-speak) to information Luke in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He even gave Rey a bit of assist in The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker.
Hayden Christensen will play Darth Vader once more.
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The prequel trilogy, which kicked off with The Phantom Menace in 1999, introduced in McGregor as a youthful Obi-Wan and launched us to his grasp Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson). Qui-Gon found Anakin on the desert planet Tatooine, however was slain by Darth Maul, and the duty of coaching the boy fell to Obi-Wan.
Anakin succumbed to the Dark Side in Revenge of the Sith and have become Darth Vader, then helped Emperor Palpatine wipe out the Jedi as they established the Galactic Empire. Obi-Wan survived and fled to Tatooine with Luke, the son Anakin did not know he had, whereas Luke’s twin sister, Leia, went to reside with the royal household of Alderaan.
“There could or will not be cloaks, I’m not saying something,” McGregor advised CBS Sunday Morning in May. “But to come back again to play him once more, Obi-Wan Kenobi, has been completely good. I’m actually having fun with it.”
There will certainly be cloaks.
Cast: Who’s in Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Aside from McGregor returning as Obi-Wan, Hayden Christensen — who performed Anakin in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith — will return as Vader.
“It was such an unbelievable journey enjoying Anakin Skywalker,” Christensen mentioned of coming again to the position. “Of course, Anakin and Obi-Wan weren’t on the best of phrases after we final noticed them… It shall be fascinating to see what an incredible director like Deborah Chow has in retailer for us all. I’m excited to work with Ewan once more. It feels good to be again.”
Lucasfilm revealed a slew of different forged members in March. Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse will return as Owen and Beru Lars — higher referred to as Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. At this level within the timeline, they’re elevating Luke far-off from now-evil dad Darth Vader. Presumably, we’ll see somebody new enjoying a younger Luke.
The forged of Obi-Wan Kenobi, revealed.
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Joining them are Kumail Nanjiani, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Moses Ingram, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie in unknown roles. None of them has beforehand been in Star Wars, and Nanjiani advised USA Today in November that his expertise on the present was “completely superb.”
“When you are on set, you must put out of your head that you just’re in Star Wars, which could be very exhausting to do as a result of it actually appears to be like such as you’re in Star Wars. I’m dressed like I’m in Star Wars,” he mentioned. “The man who I’m speaking to appears to be like rather a lot like Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was my first job exterior of quarantine: I obtained vaccinated, went proper to set and truthfully had the very best three months.”
In April, Variety reported that Maya Erskine (seen in Hulu comedy PEN15) has been forged within the present. Her position is unknown.
There’s one different actor who’ll nearly definitely present up, as recommended close to the top of Revenge of the Sith.
“In your solitude on Tatooine, coaching I’ve for you. An previous pal has realized the trail to immortality — one who has returned from the netherworld on the Force. Your previous grasp,” mentioned Yoda as he and Obi-Wan go into exile. “How to commune with him, I’ll educate you.”
Qui-Gon Jinn may make an look, in ghost kind.
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Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn died in The Phantom Menace, however Neeson returned to the position in The Clone Wars. He was the primary Jedi ever to turn into a Force ghost and information his allies within the materials realm. By the time of the unique trilogy, Obi-Wan has realized this ability, having been taught by Qui-Gon. We’ll presumably see this within the present. Neeson advised Collider in October 2020 he hadn’t but “been approached” about reprising the position, however it may occur someday throughout the present’s 2021 shoot.
Expect Jabba the Hutt and his goons, in addition to among the scum and villainy glimpsed within the Mos Eisley Cantina, to point out up too.
Who else is concerned with this Star Wars present?
Deborah Chow, who helmed episodes 3 and seven of The Mandalorian’s first season, will direct the Obi-Wan sequence. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Chow, McGregor and author Joby Harold will function govt producers.
It positive appears to be like like Obi-Wan goes to come across Darth Vader, primarily based on this idea artwork.
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What do we all know concerning the plot of Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Right now, all we are able to actually say is that Obi-Wan — identified to the locals as Ben Kenobi — will watch over Luke from a distance whereas in exile on Tatooine. Don’t assume too exhausting about the truth that Vader did not search for his son on his dwelling planet, that the Galactic Empire did not discover a younger man with the title Skywalker or that Obi-Wan’s alias is fairly darn just like his personal title.
It’s unclear what sort of position Vader will play on this present, however idea artwork suggests he and Obi-Wan are going to struggle.
This idea artwork appears to point out an Imperial Inquisitor arriving on Tatooine.
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On Nov. 12 (AKA DIsney Plus Day), Chow hinted that Obi-Wan will face different risks.
“This is sort of a darkish time that we’re coming into,” she mentioned. “Just being a Jedi, it isn’t secure, there’s Jedi hunters on the market.”
Concept artwork hints that one among these hunters would be the Dark Side-wielding Imperial Inquisitor, as seen in CGI animated sequence Rebels and online game Jedi: Fallen Order.
We’ve had a number of canon glimpses of this era. In the primary quantity of Marvel’s principal Star Wars comedian sequence, Luke finds Obi-Wan’s journals following the Jedi’s dying in A New Hope. These recount a number of of his adventures on Tatooine, like saving Luke from Jabba’s goons, defending Jawas from Tusken Raiders and rescuing Owen from Wookiee bounty hunter Black Krrsantan (who simply made his first live-action look in The Book of Boba Fett).
Obi-Wan faces Maul for the final time in Rebels.
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Obi-Wan’s last battle with Maul takes place throughout this time, round two years earlier than A New Hope. We’ve already seen how that goes down within the CGI animated sequence Star Wars Rebels. The Jedi may additionally reminisce about preventing within the Clone Wars, opening up the potential of flashbacks (so we’d see Christensen enjoying pre-Dark Side Anakin in addition to Vader).
If you are desirous to get a way of this time interval, John Jackson Miller’s 2013 novel Kenobi is price a learn. It’s now not canon as a result of Disney rebranded many pre-2014 Star Wars tales below the “Legends” banner, however it reveals one among Obi-Wan’s adventures as he tries to mix in on Tatooine.
