Obi-Wan Kenobi

West Coast viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, starting at 9 p.m. PT. Originally, ...

After Joby Harold (“Army of the Dead”) was hired to take over, the six-episode series was delayed again due to the pandemic. The Disney+ series is the culmination of years of planning at Lucasfilm to revive McGregor’s performance as Obi-Wan from the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy. early,” the tweet reads. The actor finally confirmed the news to great fanfare at the D23 Expo in August 2019, but a planned shoot in 2020 with “The Mandalorian” director Deborah Chow was delayed when the original head writer, Hossein Amini (“The Alienist”), left the production. The news was announced in a tweet from the official “Star Wars” account. “Start streaming the first two episodes TONIGHT at 9 p.m. PT on @Disneyplus.”

The first two episodes, starring Ewan McGregor, are arriving earlier than expected.

- Episode 6: Available Wednesday, June 22 -- 12 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET/7 a.m. GMT) - Episode 5: Available Wednesday, June 15 -- 12 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET/7 a.m. GMT) - Episode 4: Available Wednesday, June 8 -- 12 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET/7 a.m. GMT) - Episode 3: Available Wednesday, June 1 -- 12 a.m. PT (3 a.m. ET/7 a.m. GMT) The first of the six episodes was originally scheduled to premiere on Disney Plus on May 25. The show, going by the Jedi Master's name, will pick up 10 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith.

The actor was reunited with co-star Hayden Christensen at Disney's Star Wars Celebration to promote the new miniseries.

to a darker, more broken place. we’ve started to feel all of your love for the prequels we’ve made,” McGregor said. Ewan McGregor says taking the character of Obi-Wan Kenobi to “a darker, more broken place” had been a “brilliant challenge” as he appeared at Disney’s Star Wars Celebration.

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Essentially we’re right in the middle, so it’s almost like trying to tell the second act in a story where everyone knows what happened before and after, so it’s challenging. In Mandalorian I did a lot of blaster fire, we did a lot of shoot-outs on Mandalorian, so it was exciting to get some new weapons and to be able to do some sequences that were more lightsabre-based. But at the end of the day it does always come back to westerns and samurai films.

Ewan McGregor returns as the fan favourite Obi-Wan Kenobi in the latest Star Wars show from Disney+, as does Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin ...

But, man, I really think people are going to like it. his relationship with Obi-Wan and his relationship with the Jedi order at large. "I think it's something that's different than what people are used to for this story. "There's a lot going on under the surface. "A big part of that has to do with... "It brought up a lot of feelings for me and I was able to sort of apply that to the work that I had to do.

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"So I think we all felt it was very important to get that right. Have a tip for us? "Because this is a character that existed before I was even alive there was a continuity there that we needed to adhere to," Christensen said.

Hayden Christiansen and Ewan McGregor chat about starring in Obi-Wan, reflect on the prequels and reveal the 'special bond' they now have.

But getting to come back to the Star Wars world after all this time away, you know, I think you have a different perspective on life in general and you appreciate things in a different way. Even when the first and the second one came out and there was loads of criticism of them, it wasn’t like, on set, you’re paying any attention to that. ‘It’s been a while,’ says Christensen, relaxed and content in a way I didn’t expect. ‘He’s in hiding because the Jedis are being hunted down by the Grand Inquisitor, who is trying to wipe them out, and he’s lost his faith. And, of course, as it’s a Star Wars project, that means we know next to nothing about it. Every fight scene is a round of boxing and you’re absolutely white by the end of it.

Ewan McGregor returns as our beloved bearded Jedi in the Disney+ series "Obi-Wan Kenobi" -- after a whopping 17 years away from the "Star Wars" universe.

Otherwise, we don't know who the stars are playing -- a fun surprise as the series rolls out. We can presume this kid is a young Luke Skywalker, who appears to be around the same age as his father was when Qui-Gon found him. Qui-Gon, certain that Anakin is the "chosen one" based on his midichlorian count (don't ask), is killed by Darth Maul, but tasks Obi-Wan with training young Anakin. The father of all Skywalkers is BACK and badder than ever. And what breadcrumbs has Disney dropped about the plot of "Obi-Wan Kenobi"? Don't have time to spend six-plus hours watching the prequels?

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That made me appreciate more the work that I’d done in the world of Star Wars and what it meant to other people,” he said. For them, the films that I made with Hayden and Natalie Portman, are their Star Wars films in the same way the original trilogy was mine. McGregor added: “I think that Star Wars fans are some of the most passionate fans in the world for any franchise.”

Obi-Wan Kenobi finally hits this week and we have all the details on how you can stream the Star Wars show and what time the first episode arrives.

Obi-Wan Kenobi will consist of six episodes, so they’ll be four to go once the series premiere is out of the way. But if you’d rather keep yourself completely in the dark, then we’d advise skipping the trailer and going in completely in the dark. As always with these Star Wars shows, it’s also best to avoid Twitter until you’ve watched so as to avoid any spoilers ruining your viewing.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is being released on Disney Plus, with Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen among the cast of the latest Star Wars adventure.

‘It’s been really special to be on set with him and see how loved he is. The crew is really into Star Wars and when Hayden came on set it was crazy. We just caught up about our lives. ‘It was during the lockdown and I hadn’t seen him in years, and I only got to see his eyes because we were walking along with our masks on in a park and it was just great to catch up. In the new glimpse of the series, Obi-Wan was shown in the aftermath of the prequel film trilogy, in hiding while keeping an eye on a young Luke Skywalker, being raised as a child on the sandy land of Tatooine. Yes, there is a trailer, which was unveiled to the masses – much to the excitement of diehard Star Wars fans across the globe – on Star Ways Day, May 4.

Fans at Star Wars Celebration shared their thoughts on the first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi.

While no spoilers have made it to the public yet, Lucasfilm and Disney surprised fans by releasing the first two episodes on Disney+ at 9PM PST instead of its usual midnight slot. "Obi-Wan Kenobi first reactions, Ewan McGregor brings the emotion as an older Kenobi. His eye acting is next level. "The first 2 episodes of Kenobi are amazing. "Obi-Wan Kenobi gets off to a great start. A brilliant artist." With this series having been in development for most of the past three years, anticipation is at an all-time high to see the former Jedi Master take the spotlight once again.

The highly-anticipated new Star Wars series is rewinding the clock on the franchise, as Obi-Wan Kenobi goes back towards the prequel films.

‘He’s in hiding because the Jedis are being hunted down by the Grand Inquisitor, who is trying to wipe them out, and he’s lost his faith. Speaking about his return, Ewan told Metro.co.uk: ‘We find Obi-Wan in a broken place. The legendary Jedi will return as the series goes back to between Episode III and Episode IV of the films when Obi-Wan, set ten years after the events of 2005 film Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi is dropping a new episode on Disney Plus weekly, following its double season premiere. so keep refreshing that landing page to catch the episodes the second they drop! That means you can watch episodes 1 and 2 together straightaway.

Early reactions to Ewan McGregor's Disney+ Star Wars TV mini series suggest the force is strong with this one.

ComicBook’s Brandon Davis had a similar response, telling his followers Obi-Wan Kenobi was “really surprising! Meanwhile, Total Film attended an early screening of Obi-Wan Kenobi and gave it a thumbs up on Twitter: “Wow, what a start” they said, adding intriguingly that the first episode “pulls Obi into the action in a very unexpected way.” It’s McGregor’s first time back in the Jedi gown for 17 year since 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, and Obi-Wan Kenobi will fill in the character’s unknown back story between the events of that film and 1977’s A New Hope.

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It’s the sort of character and performance that would usually deserve its own spin-off, even if it didn’t exist in the world of modern Star Wars, where every single character who ever appears onscreen is all but guaranteed a full series about their origin story. In the prequel series they often overwhelmed McGregor’s performance, but here, he wears them lightly, letting some of his natural charisma seep through. The series actually starts to justify its own existence. The story goes that this series started life as a film. Post-Lucas Star Wars exists almost exclusively to bulk out thin gruel, joining various dots that didn’t need to be joined, for the delight of a quickly ageing fanbase. Kenobi left Anakin Skywalker for dead a decade ago and, realistically, it’s another decade before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope.

The scars of Star Wars prequel films run deep in nostalgic return for Ewan McGregor in Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes 1 and 2. Read our review.

Young Princess Leia’s significance in the story comes as a surprise, and a welcome one at that, thanks largely to the prowess of the actor who plays her, bringing the same personality to the role that Carrie first did back in the 1970s. The first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are available to watch on Disney Plus, with new episodes released on Wednesdays. In one of the most heart-wrenching moments of the series so far, Leia is at risk of falling to her death after trying to flee Obi-Wan, when he uses the Force – the first time he has done so in 10 years – to save her life. While Luke dreams of being a fighter pilot on Tatooine, Princess Leia is living a life of luxury on Alderaan, although the confines of being a Princess prove too much for her to bear as she frequently runs into the woods on her own for adventures. The first two episodes of the series were released in one go on Disney Plus, introducing viewers to the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) in live action for the first time, the fearsome Third Sister, Reva ( Moses Ingram) and showing a glimpse of Hayden Christensen’s comeback as Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader. We all knew it was going to be a nostalgic ride from the get-go, but fans of the prequel films – especially those who grew up watching them as children – might not have been emotionally prepared for the flashback sequence that opened the show, when audiences were reminded of the heartwarming rise and devastating fall of Anakin’s relationship with Obi-Wan, as well as with his love Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman), with whom he shares two children – Luke and Leia.

New Disney Plus series Obi-Wan Kenobi had a surprising fate for a character from Star Wars Rebels.

Clearly, there must be more than one Grand Inquisitor on the Empire’s books from this alien species (called Pau’an, if you want to get technical), and the Inquisitor that fans were familiar with was a different man. Well, it seems like Obi-Wan Kenobi (and Rebels creator Dave Filoni, who gets a “special thanks” in the credits) has pulled a fast one on fans. Rather than let him take her prize (and in revenge for his insults), Reva kills him in cold blood, leaving him on the ground before she starts hunting Kenobi again.

What was Obi-Wan Kenobi up to during those years when he was watching over Luke Skywalker after the Republic's fall in "Revenge of the Sith?"

That scenario also creates plenty of opportunities for callbacks that, in a theatrical setting, would have fans whooping and hollering. He watches the young Luke from a respectable distance, which is still too close to suit the boy's Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton), who well remembers how he ended up with the lad in his care. Those considerations aside, the Disney+ series presents subscribers what feels like a wonderful distraction, no Jedi mind tricks required.

We review episodes 1 and 2 of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Plus, as they happened.

They stripped a Jedi's old ship and tried to sell him the parts. Mysterious! Maybe Kenobi was mean to her in the Jedi Temple when she was a little 'un. Now Rupert Friend, aka the Grand Inquisitor is going to do his little monologue about Jedi compassion being a curse. In reality, you just have to look at him and he is fully dressed as a Jedi now with a big cloak and a lightsaber on his hip. Kenobi leaves the toy he bought for him, but I can imagine that's going to go down badly with Uncle Owen. Unfortunately Leia's run into a creepy gang of bald people in the woods. Leia jumps off a building, and falls...poor old Obi-Wan has to use the Force to save her...clearly it's an effort after a long time. Meanwhile Obi-Wan is still brooding out in the desert. He also could have used the Force and/or his lightsaber, right? Anyway they want her to stand down, but instead she John Wick 3-s him and sics every bounty hunter on Daiyu in his direction. Check below for the latest updates, and don't forget to refresh the page when you want more! He talks to Senators and things.

Ewan McGregor returns as the Jedi master 17 years on from Revenge of the Sith.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. So for us, in large part, that was why we felt we actually had a story to tell.” I’ve always got to be somebody who ends up becoming Alec Guinness at the end of the day.”

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Ewan McGregor is finally getting something to work with in terms of a script, an upgrade from the prequels. Leia rebels against her stuffy upbringing, and appears to be exhibiting at least mildly force-like symptoms where she can read people’s fears to a certain extent, disguised as being observant. The series was given to Mandalorian director Deborah Chow, and so far, it’s going pretty well.

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“I was in the biggest-grossing movie of the decade, and no director wanted to work with me.” As Hayden Christensen commented recently, “I guess the moral of the story is patience.” And their feelings towards the prequel movies are very different to those of the grouchy Gen Xers who piled in the first time around. As Star Wars followers across the world tune in to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Millennials and Gen Zers will hope, then, that the series stokes the same wonder they felt watching the prequel trilogy as kids. The journalist then moved on to Jar Jar Binks and concerns within the Star Wars camp over his “annoying dialogue”. Instead, older fans of the franchise felt they had permission to be as ugly as they wanted about everyone involved in Lucas’ universe. Rather than stand behind Tran and her character, they quietly sidelined Rose in the next Star Wars feature. They grumbled about Lloyd’s performance and about Jar Jar Binks and his Barney the Dinosaur routine. For the first time, it is backing an actor, rather than giving in to the haters. They were largely fine with McGregor. The object of their derision was Christensen, a Canadian one-time soap star with boy-band good looks and a low-key acting style. He was not alone in feeling the wrath of fans. And it has fed the misogyny that bubbles up whenever the BBC casts anyone other than a white middle-aged man as Doctor Who.

The Grand Inquisitor death in Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 2 might have made Rebels non-canon.

Once the dust has settled, the Grand Inquisitor could be back on his feet – and on a one-way trip to appearing in Star Wars: Rebels. If not? Another wrote (opens in new tab), "He's alive in Rebels so.....what? I'm so confused." one viewer asked (opens in new tab), probably not without justification.

The Book of Boba Fett star had a surprise cameo in the second episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Plus.

Based on the clone’s armour, he probably even fought in the 501st Legion, who worked closely with Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker during the animated Clone Wars TV series. Who’s to say how many Jedi this clone in particular killed off? Yes, it’s another star of the Disney Plus screen – Temuera Morrison, aka Boba Fett, aka Jango Fett, aka just about any clone trooper you’d care to mention.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi runs the same risk here, but justifies itself by being the first Disney+ Star Wars series to feel like a main Star Wars story, rather than some offcut, with its centring of lead characters from the films. The closing shot shows a burnt and scarred Vader in a bacta tank, giving us our first glimpse of the returning Hayden Christensen, who reprises his role as Anakin. It's no secret that they will fight again in this series, which has attracted some concern that it could undercut the significance of their duel in 1977's A New Hope – again, making the universe feel smaller. A recurring problem with Disney's era of Star Wars spin-off films and TV shows has been that the more gaps they fill in the overarching timeline, the more backstory of big characters that is illuminated, the smaller and less interesting the universe becomes. Whatever the reason for it, this reappraisal is evidently a driver for the latest Disney+ Star Wars show, Obi-Wan Kenobi, a slick six-part series that seeks to explore what happened to the Jedi Master after the harrowing events of 2005's Revenge of the Sith. The show even begins with a recap of the prequels. Obi-Wan is eventually forced into action by episode one's big surprise: the kidnap of a 10-year-old Princess Leia, played with an endearing precociousness by Bird Box's Vivien Lyra Blair. Obi-Wan, who is one of the few people in the galaxy aware of her importance, is approached by her adoptive father Bail Organa (Jimmy Smits reprising his prequel role) to rescue her. This, of course, could simply be a case of millennial nostalgia, although I would say it is also founded on a valid sense of appreciation for movies that – while undeniably flawed in execution – are rich in the kind of cohesion and ideas that Disney's sequel trilogy sorely lacked.

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The self-contained story gives Obi-Wan more purpose than some of Star Wars’ other streaming ventures – even if you suspect this would have worked perfectly well as a film. Ten years have passed since the events of Revenge of the Sith – though what’s a year, really, on a planet with two suns? Two-and-a-half years in, it’s safe to say Disney’s grand venture into a televised Star Wars universe has been something of a mixed bag.

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In the comicbooks, the Grand Inquisitor killed himself by throwing himself into a furnace to avoid capture, only for his soul to be captured by Vader and used to protect an old Temple on Tempes. Whether that will happen in Obi-Wan Kenobi remains to be seen. However, it seems his role will be supplanted by Reva in the Disney Plus show, as she kills him for attempting to capture Kenobi without her at the end of Episode 2. The two Inquisitors are part of a larger group tasked with hunting down Jedi ten years after Order 66 was executed.

Fun character dynamics, solid motivations, and Prequel nostalgia make the Obi-Wan Kenobi series a Star Wars treat.

And while this show’s budget clearly pales a bit in comparison to even the Prequel flashbacks, Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s inventive embrace of the Star Wars spirit leaves me ready for more. (Shoutout to Temuera Morrison as the down-on-his-luck clone.) Blair’s impeccable delivery (“Where’s the army?”) makes her a more-than-worthy addition to the Star Wars slate, too. Bail suggests that Obi-Wan’s vigil on Tatooine isn’t about Luke at all, but about Obi-Wan’s feelings of having failed to save Anakin. As much as hiding from the Empire is a practical move, it’s also a way for Obi-Wan to run from what he sees as his mistake. “Part II” is full of fun action, including bounty hunters inspired by the Original Trilogy, such as 1-JAC, the droid modeled after 4-LOM, and the big-headed dinosaur guy who might as well be a puppet from Return of the Jedi. While some of the action feels floaty and like very obvious wire work, Ingram’s Third Sister is firmly established as a juggernaut, and her aggression contrasts nicely with the other Inquisitors’ more alien, patient menace. As the Inquisitors say, a Jedi’s “compassion leaves a trail” in a way that tends to make Obi-Wan’s life harder. Instead of inventing a change of heart for the main character like The Book of Boba Fett‘s Tusken arc did, Obi-Wan Kenobi draws directly from the Prequels, using 20 years of history to tell a story with a clear through-line. A glimpse at Christensen as the heavily scarred Vader at the end of the second episodes promises a long-awaited confrontation to come. Even in this time period, not all is well in the house of Alderaan. Pirates working for the Inquisitors capture Leia, so Bail sends a distress call to Obi-Wan. Despite not wanting to raise his head above the sand, Obi-Wan does follow the princess’ trail to a seedy city on the planet Daiyu. It’s there, in “Part II,” that the series gets up to speed, with faster-paced storytelling and some remarkable one-off characters. McGregor utterly sells Obi-Wan as both kind and haunted, playing a mix between his own Prequel adaptation of the character and Sir Alec Guinness’ original performance. While Luke (played by Grant Feely) is just a glimpse from afar, the show delights in showing Alderaan royal life in detail (including the return of Jimmy Smits as Bail Organa). Little Leia is headstrong, precocious, and clearly adores her parents, all of which endears — and reminds us, tragically, that Alderaan has about another decade of existence left. With the sort of cast reunion the Sequel Trilogy provided for the children of the ’80s, McGregor and Hayden Christensen are poised to stoke the same fervor for fans who grew up in the early 2000s. Obi-Wan is also feeling lost in regards to his dead mentor, Qui-Gon, who refuses to talk to him from beyond the grave despite Obi-Wan training to speak to Jedi ghosts.

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Whether the show can truly redeem the prequels without relying too heavily on embroidering the stories of characters we already know remains to be seen, but it’s a great pleasure to see an older, wiser McGregor back in this role. His adventures here may offer a chance at redemption not just for his character but that entire under-loved era of Star Wars, cherrypicking the bits that worked and leaving aside the embarrassing Gungans and terrible screenwriting (at least so far). Sure, you could call it fan service and you’d probably be right, given the number of familiar characters here, but here’s a prequel character interacting with baddies who feel thoroughly Imperial, and a tired world that still features traces of neon and cities that span planets. Still, the first episodes of_Obi-Wan Kenobi_feature scares and stress enough to age anyone, and more importantly some effective connective tissue between the tone of the two trilogies.