“Obi-Wan Kenobi” premieres at Disney + a few hours earlier than expected, “Star Wars” announced on Thursday night.
West Coast viewers will be able to watch the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, starting at 9 p.m. Originally, they were available at midnight.
The news was announced in a tweet from the official Star Wars account. “The time for @ObiWanKenobi has come … soon,” the tweet said. “Start playing the first two episodes TONIGHT at 9pm PT on @Disneyplus.”
@ ObiWanKenobi’s time has come … early. Start playing the first two episodes THIS NIGHT at 9pm PT on @Disneyplus. pic.twitter.com/LgdRC51GW2
– Star Wars (@starwars) May 27, 2022
Today at the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, California, fans of “Star Wars” were surprised by a screening of the show’s premiere at 7:00 p.m., and now viewers at home will be able to see “Obi -Wan Kenobi “soon. too.
The Disney + series is the culmination of years of planning for Lucasfilm to revive McGregor’s performance as Obi-Wan in the prequel “Star Wars” trilogy. Initially, the actor was to star in an independent feature film directed by Stephen Daldry (“The Hours”). However, after the box office failure of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” in 2018, Lucasfilm abandoned its standalone films and refocused on creating shows for Disney +, and rampant success. of “The Mandalorian” rekindled hope that McGregor would give himself Obi-Wan. batting again for a series of streaming.
The actor finally confirmed the news at the D23 Expo in August 2019, but a filming scheduled for 2020 with “The Mandalorian” director Deborah Chow was delayed when the original lead writer, Hossein Amini ( “The Alienist”), left production. After Joby Harold (“Army of the Dead”) was hired to take over, the six-episode series was again delayed due to the pandemic. Disney finally announced in February that the show would debut at Disney + on May 25, 2022, and by the end of March, it was advancing the release two days to May 27th.
Set about 10 years after the events of “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” in 2005, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” resumes Obi-Wan’s life in exile in Tatooine. After Order 66 decimated the Jed, Obi-Wan is a hunted man, especially by an inquisitor named Reva Sevander (Moses Ingram). Christensen is also repeating his prequel performance as Anakin Skywalker, now transformed by his last encounter with Obi-Wan in Darth Vader; and Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse return as Uncle Owen and Luke Skywalker’s Aunt Beru Lars. The series stars Rupert Friend, Indira Varma, Sung Kang, Kumail Nanjiani, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Simone Kessell, Benny Safdie and Maya Erskine.
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