Obi-Wan Kenobi: What to know concerning the upcoming Disney Plus Star Wars present

We’re a few chapters into Disney Plus Star Wars present The Book of Boba Fett, nevertheless it will not be the one journey we take to Tatooine in 2022. Iconic hero Obi-Wan Kenobi will probably be getting his personal sequence someday this yr, with actor Ewan McGregor returning to the function he performed within the prequel trilogy.

Disney and Lucasfilm announced the show again in 2019 D23, and listed below are all the main points we have discovered since.

When is Obi-Wan Kenobi out on Disney Plus?

The discharge date is someday in 2022, the corporate confirmed in a special Disney Plus teaser  It’s going to encompass six hour-long episodes, McGregor said last year, and he told ET that it is deliberate as a single-season present.

Disney typically drops episodes onto its streaming service on a weekly basis, not like the full-season drop method Netflix takes for its exhibits.

When within the Star Wars timeline is it set?

It’s going to 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.

Who’s Obi-Wan Kenobi?

In case you actually do not know, it is best to watch a few Star Wars movies. The short 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 Power. Later in that film, Obi-Wan was struck down by his former apprentice Darth Vader, who was finally revealed to be Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father and a Jedi turned to the Darkish Aspect.

Regardless of his dying, Obi-Wan returned as a spirit (a Power ghost, in Star Wars-speak) to information Luke in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He even gave Rey a little help in The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker.

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 Darkish Aspect 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 dwell with the royal household of Alderaan.

“There might or will not be cloaks, I am not saying something,” McGregor told CBS Sunday Morning in Might. “However to return again to play him once more, Obi-Wan Kenobi, has been completely good. I am actually having fun with it.”

There will certainly be cloaks.

Forged: Who’s in Obi-Wan Kenobi?

Except for McGregor returning as Obi-Wan, Hayden Christensen — who performed Anakin in Assault of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith — will return as Vader.

“It was such an unbelievable journey taking part in Anakin Skywalker,” Christensen said of coming back to the function. “After all, Anakin and Obi-Wan weren’t on the best of phrases once we final noticed them… Will probably be fascinating to see what a tremendous director like Deborah Chow has in retailer for us all. I am 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 distant from now-evil dad Darth Vader. Presumably, we’ll see somebody new taking part in a younger Luke.

Becoming a member of 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 instructed USA At present in November that his experience on the show was “completely wonderful.”

“Once you’re on set, you must put out of your head that you simply’re in Star Wars, which could be very onerous to do as a result of it actually seems such as you’re in Star Wars. I am dressed like I am in Star Wars,” he stated. “The man who I am speaking to seems lots like Obi-Wan Kenobi. It was my first job exterior of quarantine: I obtained vaccinated, went proper to set and actually had the most effective three months.”

In April, Selection reported that Maya Erskine (seen in Hulu comedy PEN15) has been cast within the present. Her function is unknown.

There’s one different actor who’ll virtually actually present up, as recommended close to the tip of Revenge of the Sith.

“In your solitude on Tatooine, coaching I’ve for you. An previous pal has discovered the trail to immortality — one who has returned from the netherworld on the Power. Your previous grasp,” said Yoda as he and Obi-Wan go into exile. “Learn how to commune with him, I’ll train you.”

Jedi grasp Qui-Gon Jinn died in The Phantom Menace, however Neeson returned to the function in The Clone Wars. He was the primary Jedi ever to turn into a Power ghost and information his allies within the materials realm. By the point of the unique trilogy, Obi-Wan has discovered this talent, having been taught by Qui-Gon. We’ll presumably see this within the present. Neeson instructed Collider in October 2020 he hadn’t but “been approached” about reprising the function, nevertheless it may occur someday in the course of the present’s 2021 shoot.

Anticipate 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 7 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 government producers.

What do we all know concerning the plot of Obi-Wan Kenobi?

Proper now, all we will actually say is that Obi-Wan — recognized to the locals as Ben Kenobi — will watch over Luke from a distance whereas in exile on Tatooine. Do not suppose too onerous about the truth that Vader did not search for his son on his house planet, that the Galactic Empire did not discover a younger man with the title Skywalker or that Obi-Wan’s alias is fairly darn much like his personal title.

It is unclear what sort of function Vader will play on this present, however idea artwork suggests he and Obi-Wan are going to combat.

On Nov. 12 (AKA DIsney Plus Day), Chow hinted that Obi-Wan will face other dangers.

“That is fairly a darkish time that we’re coming into,” she stated. “Simply being a Jedi, it is not protected, there’s Jedi hunters on the market.”

Idea artwork hints that certainly one of these hunters would be the Darkish Aspect-wielding Imperial Inquisitor, as seen in CGI animated series Rebels and online game Jedi: Fallen Order.

We have had just a few canon glimpses of this era. Within the first volume 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 just a few 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 appearance in The E-book of Boba Fett).

Obi-Wan’s remaining battle with Maul takes place throughout this time, round two years earlier than A New Hope. We have 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 taking part in pre-Darkish Aspect Anakin in addition to Vader).

In case you’re desperate to get a way of this time interval, John Jackson Miller’s 2013 novel Kenobi is price a learn. It is no longer canon as a result of Disney rebranded many pre-2014 Star Wars tales underneath the “Legends” banner, nevertheless it reveals certainly one of Obi-Wan’s adventures as he tries to mix in on Tatooine.