Disney+ - Obi-Wan Kenobi: Discover the trailer of the event series

By Mulder, 09 march 2022

The first trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi, a new Lucasfilm series among the most anticipated by fans has been unveiled. Obi-Wan Kenobi is an American television mini-series created for the Disney+ streaming service, featuring the Star Wars character of the same name. Set ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005), the series is directed by Deborah Chow, with Joby Harold as showrunner. It will be offered exclusively on Disney+ starting May 25.

Ewan McGregor is executive producer and plays the title character, reprising his role from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Hayden Christensen, Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse also reprise their roles from the prequel trilogy. The project was originally a spin-off film to be written by Hossein Amini and directed by Stephen Daldry, but was reworked into a limited series following the commercial failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Ewan McGregor was confirmed in the lead role in August 2019, and Deborah Chow was hired to direct a month later. 

Production was scheduled to begin in July 2020, but the series was put on indefinite hold in January 2020 because Lucasfilm was not satisfied with the scripts for the series. Harold was hired to rewrite the series in April 2020, and additional casting was announced in March 2021. Filming began in May 2021 in Los Angeles, using StageCraft video wall technology, and wrapped in September. Star Wars film composer John Williams wrote the main theme for the series.

In mid-February 2022, John Williams recorded the series' main theme with an orchestra in Los Angeles. Williams had already composed the scores for the major Star Wars films, and had originally written a theme for Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (1977), but it later became associated with the Force in general. This was the second time Williams wrote a theme for a Star Wars project for which he was not the lead composer, after Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), and it was the first weekly television series for which John Williams composed the theme since Amazing Stories in 1985. 

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series will debut on Disney+ on May 25, 2022 and will consist of six episodes.

Synopsis: 
The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, when Obi-Wan faced his greatest defeat: the fall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who deliberately chose the dark side of the Force in order to become the evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.

Obi-Wan Kenobi
Based on Star Wars by George Lucas
Directed by Deborah Chow
Starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Moses Ingram, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, Sung Kang
Theme music composer : John Williams
Executive producers : Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Deborah Chow, Ewan McGregor, Joby Harold
Cinematography : Chung-hoon Chung
Production company : Lucasfilm
Distributor Disney Platform Distribution
Original network : Disney+

(Source : Press release)