Obi-Wan Kenobi, the upcoming Star Wars sequence at Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, has introduced its full forged. In addition to Ewan McGregor within the title position and Hayden Christensen returning as Darth Vader — whom we already knew about — we’ve got Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit), Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith), Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Rupert Friend (Homeland), O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), Simone Kessell (Terra Nova), and director Benny Safdie (Good Time). And oh, Obi-Wan Kenobi begins filming in April.
Disney and Lucasfilm introduced the Obi-Wan Kenobi forged and manufacturing begin on Monday by way of StarWars.com, confirming the presence of Varma who had been reported to be concerned in early March. The full Obi-Wan Kenobi forged confirms that Edgerton and Piesse will return of their respective roles of “Uncle” Owen Lars and “Aunt” Beru Lars, guardians to nephew Luke Skywalker after Owen’s stepbrother Anakin Skywalker (Christensen) turns to the darkish aspect and turns into Darth Vader. Obi-Wan Kenobi is about 10 years after the occasions of Revenge of the Sith, the place Kenobi (McGregor) received the duel with Anakin however misplaced his greatest pal and noticed the Empire emerge from the ashes of the Republic.
There’s no phrase on which characters the opposite Obi-Wan Kenobi forged members — Ingram, Nanjiani, Varma, Friend, Jackson Jr., Kang, Kessell, and Safdie — can be enjoying, however Star Wars followers have begun speculating as as to if they are going to be human, alien, or droid.
Behind the scenes, Deborah Chow — who helmed two episodes of The Mandalorian season 1 — will direct all Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes. Executive producers embrace Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Obi-Wan Kenobi author Joby Harold (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Chow, and McGregor. Obi-Wan Kenobi has had a little bit of troubled manufacturing, going from a standalone movie to a sequence (as a result of failures of Solo: A Star Wars Story), after which (tossing out all of the scripts after) switching writers from Hossein Amini (Drive) to Harold.
Obi-Wan Kenobi will air on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, not earlier than 2022. Before that, we’ll get the animated Star Wars: The Bad Batch (premiering May 4), The Book of Boba Fett (December 2021), and The Mandalorian season 3 (early 2022 possibly).
