Obi-Wan Kenobi debuted two years in the past, however Ewan McGregor nonetheless needs one other season. “I really do hope we get a chance to do another one”
Ewan McGregor lastly returned as Obi-Wan Kenobi for a collection launched on Disney+ in 2022. Whereas it was successful, there was no phrase on a possible second season. When the present was launched on Blu-ray/4K, it was billed as ‘The Complete Series’ quite than ‘The Complete First Season,’ which appeared to point that Lucasfilm wasn’t going to carry the present again. Nevertheless, McGregor informed Selection that he hopes he will get the prospect to do one other season.
“I loved, more than anything, getting to know Alec Guinness’ work because I was playing him as a young man. Even now with the series, that’s my personal challenge — if a take feels a bit like him, I’m happy,” McGregor mentioned. “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.“
Whereas the present had its critics, I discovered a lot to take pleasure in. Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi is at all times pleasant, and seeing him sharing the display with Hayden Christensen as soon as once more was a spotlight. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy mentioned final yr that whereas a second season wasn’t within the works, it’s at all times doable that Kenobi might return in one other undertaking, even perhaps in a film. “I always hesitate to say no to more Obi-Wan Kenobi. Maybe we end up doing something that gets incorporated into some of the other stories that we’re doing, or eventually into a movie, but who knows?” Kennedy mentioned. “However proper now, it’s nonetheless our customary stand-alone restricted collection, we’ve got no plans for growth proper now.“
The Obi-Wan Kenobi collection happened ten years after the occasions of Revenge of the Sith and adopted the previous Jedi grasp as he set off on a mission to rescue a younger Leia Organa. Alongside the way in which, he confronts his former apprentice and accepts that Anakin Skywalker has been consumed by Darth Vader. The undertaking had initially been pitched as a trilogy of flicks by Stuart Beattie, who conceived a narrative which might have explored Kenobi’s transition from the character we noticed on the finish of Revenge of the Sith to the one we first met in A New Hope. The underperformance of Solo: A Star Wars Story prompted Disney to rethink, and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s story made the leap to the small display.
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