

After years spent in secret development, the Star Wars series finally began production back in May 2021. The most iconic villain in Star Wars history has returned to the screen, with Darth Vader acting as the main antagonist for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+. McGregor will star in the titular Jedi alongside Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, Joel Edgerton as Owen Lars, Bonnie Piesse as Beru Whitesun Lars, Moses Ingram, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, and Sung Kang. This article also assumes that you are up-to-date with all things Star Wars (so eleven films and three boxsets, but don’t worry about the books and computer games). The plot will explore Obi-Wan Kenobi's time spent living in complete exile on Tatooine, as he watches fiercely over a young Skywalker from the distance. The series is set to pick up nearly a decade after Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. It is part of the Star Wars franchise and stars Ewan McGregor. Joining him alongside production for the show is Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm's Senior Vice President of Live Action and Development and Production Michelle Rejwan, director Deborah Chow, and actor Ewan McGregor. Obi-Wan Kenobi is an American television miniseries created for the streaming service Disney+.

Harold, who also serves as the Star Wars show’s head writer, will be executive producing the series, and he has quite the team behind him. In the later-released prequel trilogy, a younger version of the character serves as one of the two main. Within the original trilogy, Obi-Wan is a Jedi Master as a supporting character and is portrayed by British actor Alec Guinness. Due to the fact that Obi-Wan Kenobi was originally made with the intent of being shown in theaters, it naturally utilized some of the plot points that would have made it to the big screen in the now-scrapped Star Wars movie. Until Part 3 of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the vast Star Wars corpus contained only two encounters between Kenobi and Darth Vader, counting the one in which Obi-Wan wound up with the high ground.Last week. Obi-Wan Kenobi ( / obiwn knobi /) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. This also allows him to pass the torch at the start of the original trilogy by becoming the supernatural aid and mentor figure that will be the catalyst for the call to adventure for the next Hero's Journey: that of Luke Skywalker.Executive producer Joby Harold recently revealed that the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobiseries borrows story ideas from the canceled Star Wars spin-off film. His second call to adventure to rescue Leia again brings him back into the unknown a final time, which reinvigorates his character into whom he truly is, paving the way for the final stage that he will later play out: the return and, as one with the Force again, the eventual Master of Two Worlds. When Obi-Wan's story picks up again in A New Hope, he seamlessly enters the final stages of his Hero's Journey. This will also likely coincide with another ultimate boon: the ability to finally communicate with Qui-Gon's ghost through the Force. By doing this, he can release himself from the shackles of guilt and accept the ultimate boon of relief. After Leia's eventual rescue that will come at the end of the series, Obi-Wan must deal with the psychological trauma of realizing and accepting who Anakin has become. This completes Obi-Wan's task of achieving greater knowledge, though at a high emotional cost, and signifies the end of his atonement as he delves into a deeper layer of his quest. It is also in this stage that the Third Sister explains another revelation to Obi-Wan: that Anakin didn't just fall to the dark side and die, he's lived and is now the galaxy's second-greatest villain. The Obi-Wan Kenobi series premieres this month, and fans have been wondering for months if Star Wars Day would include another trailer to build up hype for the show.
