Obi-Wan Kenobi is the title of a new set set in the Star Wars universe and focused on the aforementioned character.
Fiction will come to Disney + next May 25.
The date has not been chosen at random, since that day 45 years are 45 years since the premiere of the first film of the popular Saga, Star Wars: a new hope.
The official production poster shows Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) on the sands of the desert planet Tatooine.
The company presents it as a “series of special events” and is expected to have a single season, composed of six chapters.
The story of fiction begins 10 years after the events of Star Wars: the revenge of the Sith.
The description offered by Disney + recalls that in the film Kenobi “he confronted the greatest defeat, the fall and corruption of Jedi’s best friend and apprentice,” Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen).
This went to the dark side and became the evil Darth Vader.
The director of the series, Deborah Chow (The Mandalorian), offered some brushstrokes from it into a video recorded behind the scenes and available on the ‘Streaming’ platform: “What is very exciting is the return of Ewan McGregor as Obi-
Wan Kenobi. With him we entered a pretty dark time. Being a Jedi is not safe. There are Jedi hunters out there. ”
The actor who embodies the protagonist commented: “At least one has a task, which is to keep Luke safe.”
Chow added: “It is the starting point of this story. The interesting thing will be where it is from there.”
He also talks about Hayden Christensen’s return: “Return to fight can be quite satisfying for everyone.”
Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen are at the head of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, where the characters that had already been played in the original Trilogy of Star Wars come up with.
The actors who had incarnate the young uncles of Luke Skywalker also return.
They are Joel Edgerton (loving) and Bonnie Feet (Love Eterne), who will give Owen Lars and Beru Lars.
The distribution of fiction is completed with Moses Ingram (Lady Gambit), Kumil Nanjiani (Eternals), Indira Varma, Rupert Friend (Homeland), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Sung Kang
(Saga Fast & Furious), Simone Kessell (Reckoning: Account Adjustment) and Benny Safdie (fragments of a woman).