Actor Ewan McGregor has confirmed on Friday’s “The Graham Norton Show” that the Obi-Wan Kenobi-centered Disney+ series aims to start shooting in March next year.
The project was originally slated to shoot this past Summer at Pinewood Studios in the UK, but the plug was pulled back in January with talk of it being ‘indefinitely’ on hold whilst they retooled the scripts they had. The subsequent coronavirus pandemic meant production never really moved much further than that.
Of his return, McGregor says: “It’s the Obi-Wan Kenobi story, I suppose. It’s not all (about) me. But it certainly will be a lot of me, which is good! We start shooting it in March of next year.” He adds that because he’s much closer in age to Alec Guinness and in the timeline much closer to Guinness’ original Kenobi portrayal, his performance will try and meet “somewhere in the middle” between McGregor’s own work in the prequels and Guinness’ work in “Star Wars”.
The series will be set around the same time as “Solo,” eight years after the events of “Revenge of the Sith” and a decade before those of “A New Hope” with McGregor’s Obi-Wan still living on Tatooine in secret and quietly looking over a young Luke Skywalker until he comes of age.
Deborah Chow is slated to direct the entire six-episode run.
