Obi-Wan Is Broken & Faithless In New Star Wars Show, Says Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor's Star Wars character is in a dark place at the start of the Obi-Wan Kenobi show. With roughly three months to go before the next Lucasfilm Disney+ series debuts, marketing for the project has finally begun. While McGregor can't talk specifics about his upcoming return as Obi-Wan Kenobi, he shares what his character's state of mind is at the beginning of the project.
After years of rumors, Lucasfilm finally confirmed in 2019 that a new Obi-Wan Kenobi narrative is coming, although instead of a movie, it has been reworked to be a limited series. The show takes place 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith and will see the titular character in hiding from the Galactic Empire. At this point, Lucasfilm has yet to release any official footage from the project, but with the arrival of its first-look images, fans can expect that a trailer is coming sooner rather than later.
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In EW's feature of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, McGregor also provides fresh information about what his character is up to when the series kicks off in May 2022. According to the beloved Star Wars actor, viewers will «find Obi-Wan at the beginning of our story rather broken, and faithless, and beaten, somewhat given up.» Unfortunately, he didn't give any specific details about the status of the galaxy during this point in time. In any case, this is more than enough to further hype up fans, especially those who are looking forward to seeing a different side to the Jedi Master.
Obi-Wan's desolate and hopeless state at the beginning of the Obi-Wan Kenobi show makes sense. At this point in the canon timeline, it has been a decade since
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