Disney CEO Bob Chapek said during the company’s Wednesday earnings call that the next Star Wars Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, will debut on May 25, the Wednesday before Memorial Day weekend.
Obi-Wan Kenobi sees the return of Ewan McGregor as the younger Obi-Wan. Hayden Christensen is expected to return as Darth Vader. Also starring are Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie.
The series is executive produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Deborah Chow, McGregor and Joby Harold.
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The Season 1 finale of Disney+’s The Book of Boba Fett, another Star Wars spinoff, premiered today on the streamer.
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Today, the studio said that Disney+ now has 129.8 million global subscribers, 11.8 million more than at the end of the previous quarter and ahead of Wall Street’s projection of 125.4 million.
On the earnings call, Chapek told investors that the studio isn’t relying on theatrical to build a Disney franchise moving forward. Good luck, because all these big shows like Star Wars were built off the heat of theatrical. Chapek also gave a shout-out to the success of Oscar-nominated toon Encanto, which did receive a theatrical window before going directly on Disney+.
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I guess they are changing the Star Wars cannon. In the original episode 4: A New Hope, Obi Wan Kenobi was hiding on Tatooie to stay away from Anikan Skywalker and avoid the extermination of the Jedi being led by Skywalker/Darth Vader. Now they are putting this series into place showing him not hiding and potentially fighting with him. Unless this predates his hiding on Tatooie (although the picture of him walking in the middle of a desert kind of kills that possibility unless that picture is at the end of the series). It will be interesting to see how well this fits what we know the time between episode 3 and 4.
Cad Bane better make an appearance
Depends on the timing of this series – is it before or after the Boba Fett series?
“Obi-Wan, you don’t know the power of the dark si…Oh look, it’s the Mandolorian and Grogu!”
Alec Guinness forever.
Who would have thought that 45 years later to the EXACT date, May 25th, we’d be watch watching an entire show dedicated to that “strange old hermit” If someone had said on May 25th 1977 that 45 years later all of this would have gone this far people would have said that person was high lol Hard to believe.