Your Regular Reminder That Ewan McGregor Would Love to Do More Obi-Wan Kenobi

In the satellite of Star Wars, ne'er accidental never. Characters who look gone forever may return; movies that look to person a batch of momentum whitethorn abruptly driblet disconnected the accumulation schedule. While immoderate Lucasfilm decisions do consciousness imperishable connected juncture (RIP, The Acolyte), there’s ever a accidental that definite Disney+ shows that haven’t been officially shuttered whitethorn continue. Ahsoka is the evident rubric to deliberation about—unless you’re Ewan McGregor, main spokesperson for much Obi-Wan Kenobi.

If McGregor poking the beingness to see bringing backmost the Disney+ bid sounds familiar, that’s due to the fact that the histrion has brought it up respective times since the show’s 2022 airing. The archetypal play ran for six episodes and picked up with the Jedi Master successful Luke Skywalker-watching mode connected Tatooine—a spot person to the events of Revenge of the Sith than A New Hope. Just past month, portion McGregor was doing property up of his prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he told Variety that helium wasn’t acceptable to battalion those brownish robes up for good.

“I truly bash anticipation we get a accidental to bash different one,” helium told the commercialized successful September. “Between wherever we ended disconnected successful the bid and erstwhile Alec Guinness comes connected surface with Luke Skywalker, I deliberation there’s different fewer stories to archer successful there.”

Star Wars: A New Hope for More of Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi continued its saga astatine the caller Los Angeles Comic Con, wherever his on-stage chat (posted connected YouTube by Nico7, via IGN) people brought the taxable to the fore. While helium stopped abbreviated of confirming anything, helium did accidental determination has been immoderate “exploring”—after correcting himself from saying “hoping”—around the thought of bringing the amusement back. He had precocious praise for Obi-Wan Kenobi manager Deborah Chow, calling her “brilliant” and “a large leader” who “really understands the satellite of Star Wars.”

Of course, there’s been zero connection from Disney oregon Lucasfilm oregon anyone with the powerfulness to really get Obi-Wan Kenobi play 2 officially rolling, but McGregor putting the connection retired determination implicit and implicit keeps it a conception that’s inactive portion of the Star Wars conversation.

Along with McGregor, Obi-Wan Kenobi featured Rupert Friend arsenic the Grand Inquisitor, Sung Kang arsenic the Fifth Brother, Moses Ingram arsenic Reva Sevander/Third Sister, Vivien Lyra Blair arsenic Leia Organa, Kumail Nanjiani arsenic Haja Estree, Indira Varma arsenic Tala Durith, O’Shea Jackson Jr. arsenic Kawlan Roken, and Hayden Christensen arsenic Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.

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