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Ewan McGregor has confirmed that Disney+'s long-awaited Obi-Wan Kenobi series has already begun filming in Los Angeles. The series will also feature the return of Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader.
Benny Safdie
Joby Harold was recently brought in to work on the series and get things back on track with the scripts. With series writer Hossein Amini bowing out back in January 2020 because of this, Harold will now move forward with them. While serving as a producer on the third
John Wick film, he also wrote the screenplay for the
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword film and is co-writing
Transformers at Paramount and working on
Army of the Dead for Zack Snyder.
Deborah Chow previously joined the series as a director for it. Chow is a strong choice as she worked on
The
Obi-Wan Kenobi series sees the return of Ewan McGregor to the Star Wars universe as he reprises his iconic role as the titular Jedi master. The story is expected to take place eight years after the events of
Revenge of the Sith, where we last saw Obi-Wan delivering the infant Luke Skywalker to his Tatooine homestead. Further details about the series’ plot are still scarce. Still, it might potentially explore Obi-Wan’s life on Tatooine between
Episodes III and
IV, which were previously explored in a few Star Wars novels and comics.
The Disney+ series will also feature the return of Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and Joel Edgerton as Owen Lars. The
Ewan McGregor will play the exiled Jedi Master again in a live-action show, Hayden Christensen will return as Darth Vader and a Game of Thrones actor has reportedly joined the cast.