Obi-Wan Kenobi, an okay present that was carried by Ewan McGregor’s robust lead efficiency, was meant to be a restricted Disney Plus collection. To this present day, Lucasfilm nonetheless hasn’t introduced plans to do extra, however that is not stopping each McGregor and Hayden Christensen from campaigning to return to a galaxy far, far-off.
Ewan McGregor is receiving his personal star at Hollywood’s Stroll of Fame right now, Thursday 12, and forward of the occasion, he talked to Selection about his profession, paying particular consideration to his surprisingly future as Obi-Wan Kenobi, first as one of many leads of the Star Wars prequels, and years later within the Disney Plus present that reunited him with Hayden Christensen.
After expressing his love for Alec Guinness’ work as Obi-Wan Kenobi, he as soon as once more brazenly admitted he is all the way down to work on one other season ought to the chance come up: “I actually do hope we get an opportunity to do one other one…between the place we ended off within the collection and when Alec Guinness comes on display with Luke Skywalker, I believe there’s one other few tales to inform in there.” The (for now) restricted collection ended with Kenobi saving Leia from Imperial captors and dealing with Darth Vader to lastly let Anakin Skywalker, the person he left to die on Mustafar, go. After that, he lastly received to satisfy a really yong Luke and wandered into the desert, solely to be greeted by Drive ghost Qui-Gon Jinn, which explains why he managed to grow to be one with the Drive years later as an alternative of merely dying by the hands of Vader, one thing that was already recommended in Revenge of the Sith.
The factor is… having Obi-Wan and Vader face off earlier than A New Hope already felt like a little bit of a stretch even when the present retroactively fastened numerous continuity points between Revenge and Hope. In actual fact, many followers would argue it created one other set of points by bringing Leia and Luke into the principle conflicts. Previous Ben Kenobi already confirmed up in Star Wars Rebels too, a lot nearer to the occasions of A New Hope, the place he confronted and downed for good an previous Darth Maul nonetheless on the lookout for revenge. On prime of that, some (canon) comedian books even have him working round Tatooine and doing a little cool stuff, so it seems like his ‘Tatooine period’ was already as eventful as bodily attainable. Sending him off into one other offworld journey simply does not really feel proper, however we’re not against seeing him return as a Drive ghost in initiatives set later within the timeline.
In the meantime, Christensen is definitely getting an prolonged second Star Wars run as Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader as a consequence of his further significance as Ahsoka Tano’s mentor, and we would not be stunned if he reveals up in a big-screen Star Wars installment (maybe Dave Filoni’s occasion film) in a technique or one other, particularly after the sequels oddly skipped that chance aside from a small voice cameo alongside different Jedi Knights in The Rise of Skywalker. That stated, the actor continues to be all the way down to work alongside his good friend if attainable: “If it signifies that I received to do extra with Ewan, then that’s a no brainer, however I actually hope that he continues with the character.”
With The Acolyte now formally cooked after attempting one thing new, The Mandalorian & Grogu (the subsequent Star Wars film) sounding like an enormous ball of Jon Favreau-helmed fanservice, and the extra probably refreshing Star Wars theatrical releases nonetheless with their scripts within the oven, we should not rule out Disney and Lucasfilm giving Obi-Wan Kenobi a second go to attain a simple aim with essentially the most conservative followers. That is the precise reverse of what the franchise wants to search out new followers and survive in the long term although.