Obi-Wan Kenobi debuted two years in the past, however Ewan McGregor nonetheless needs one other season. “I actually do hope we get an opportunity to do one other one”
Ewan McGregor lastly returned as Obi-Wan Kenobi for a collection launched on Disney+ in 2022. Whereas it was a hit, there was no phrase on a possible second season. When the present was launched on Blu-ray/4K, it was billed as ‘The Full Sequence’ fairly than ‘The Full First Season,’ which appeared to point that Lucasfilm wasn’t going to deliver the present again. Nonetheless, McGregor advised Selection that he hopes he will get the possibility to do one other season.
“I beloved, greater than something, attending to know Alec Guinness’ work as a result of I used to be enjoying him as a younger man. Even now with the collection, that’s my private problem — if a take feels a bit like him, I’m completely happy,” McGregor mentioned. “I actually do hope we get an opportunity to do one other one. Between the place we ended off within the collection and when Alec Guinness comes on display with Luke Skywalker, I feel there’s one other few tales to inform in there.“
Whereas the present had its critics, I discovered loads to get pleasure from. Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi is at all times pleasant, and seeing him sharing the display with Hayden Christensen as soon as once more was a spotlight. Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy mentioned final 12 months that whereas a second season wasn’t within the works, it’s at all times potential that Kenobi might return in one other venture, even perhaps in a film. “I at all times hesitate to say no to extra Obi-Wan Kenobi. Perhaps we find yourself doing one thing that will get integrated into a number of the different tales that we’re doing, or ultimately right into a film, however who is aware of?” Kennedy mentioned. “However proper now, it’s nonetheless our commonplace stand-alone restricted collection, we now have no plans for enlargement proper now.“
The Obi-Wan Kenobi collection happened ten years after the occasions of Revenge of the Sith and adopted the previous Jedi grasp as he set off on a mission to rescue a younger Leia Organa. Alongside the best way, he confronts his former apprentice and accepts that Anakin Skywalker has been consumed by Darth Vader. The venture had initially been pitched as a trilogy of films by Stuart Beattie, who conceived a narrative which might have explored Kenobi’s transition from the character we noticed on the finish of Revenge of the Sith to the one we first met in A New Hope. The underperformance of Solo: A Star Wars Story triggered Disney to rethink, and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s story made the leap to the small display.
Would you wish to see Ewan McGregor return for Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2? Or ought to the franchise over on to new tasks?
