There are “no plans” to continue the Obi-Wan Kenobi show
By Dan Selcke
Last year, Ewan McGregor returned to the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which he played in the Star Wars prequel trilogy back in the early 2000s. His Disney+ show, simply called Obi-Wan Kenobi, caught up with the aging Jedi while he was hidden out on Tatooine keeping an eye on a young Luke Skywalker…and apparently he had an adventure with a young Princess Leia which we didn’t know about before this. Guy was busy.
The show also brought back Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, and overall was considered fine by fans. Would there be another round?
Probably not, as Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy revealed on an episode of Entertainment Weekly’s Degobah Dispatch podcast. “I always hesitate to say: ‘No we won’t do anything more with Obi-Wan Kenobi’,” she said. “Maybe what we end up doing is something that gets incorporated into some of the other stories we’re doing, or eventually into a movie – who knows? But right now, it’s still our stand-alone limited series. We have no plans for expansion right now.”
Don’t hold out hope for more of Obi-Wan Kenobi
Back when the show was wrapping up, Obi-Wan Kenobi writer and executive producer Joby Harold expressed similar sentiments: “I’m being asked about it constantly,” he said. “I’ve just been thinking about this for so long as a close-ended story that my mind is so focused on this as a sort of limited [series], that I haven’t thought beyond it. But he’s a great character. They’re all amazing characters.”
With Disney determined to turn Star Wars into an eternal franchise that never stops putting out content, it is indeed possible that we could see McGregor back in his Jedi robes at some point in the future, but for now, it sounds like Kennedy and company are moving on.
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