Ewan McGregor Recalls First Time Hearing John Williams' Kenobi Theme
Ewan McGregor recalls the first time he heard legendary composer John Williams’ main musical theme for Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. Williams has produced some of the most iconic and memorable musical pieces in cinematic history—from those associated with Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park to Harry Potter. He’s also lent his talents to thegalaxy far, far away since that first opening crawl, scoring all nine Star Wars films within the Skywalker Saga and creating the theme for 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story.
This week marked the long-awaited return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in the roles of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his fallen apprentice Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, respectively. Having forsaken his past and admitted defeat, the limited series picks up with “Ben” Kenobi on Tatooine ten years after the events of 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. Vader has dispatched the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend), the Third Sister Reva (Moses Ingram), and a team of Inquisitors to hunt down Obi-Wan and other Force users who survived Order 66. It’s not a stretch to call Obi-Wan Kenobi the most-anticipated Star Wars project since the last feature film, The Rise of Skywalker, which was, of course, scored by Williams. Obi-Wan is one of the few characters Williams had never specifically crafted a theme for, and he personally requested to produce the music—which he reportedly wrote in two weeks—for the broken Jedi Master’s live-action series.
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Thursday,Screen Rant caught up with McGregor at the Star Wars Celebration Red Carpet to find out more about Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as his reaction to his character’s new theme. The actor recalled that, while he wasn’t allowed to attend
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