The news was first broke by Cinelinx, which reported that McGregor had signed on the dotted lines to once again don his Jedi robes and play Obi-Wan Kenobi. Later, Deadline reported that McGregor’s Obi-Wan will be front and centre of a new Star Wars series on Disney+.
This news is so exciting, it feels like I’ve just woken up to a big fat bowl of chocolate ice cream. For years now, Star Wars fans have been clamouring for more live-action Obi-Wan. In fact, it still remains a mystery to us why Disney and Lucasfilm decided to make a Han Solo spinoff instead of Obi-Wan, especially since nobody asked for the former and the latter had/has all the fanfare. Fans who only follow the Star Wars franchise on the big screen may be wondering what else is there to tell about Obi-Wan? Didn’t he just run away and live in a cave until the events of A New Hope? Interestingly enough, he didn’t. The Star Wars TV Series, novels and comics have explored some of Obi-Wan’s adventures post-Revenge of the Sith, pre-A New Hope. In Star Wars: Rebels, we even see a quick but awesome lightsaber battle between Obi-Wan and Darth Maul, which ends with Master Kenobi slicing through the villain’s chest and killing him. Consider me super excited for the Disney+ series. The Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring Ewan McGregor is the third Star Wars series making its way to Disney+. The first two being Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian set to debut at the launch of the streaming platform this fall and also a series centred around Cassion Andor and K2SO.
