Obi-Wan Kenobi, an okay show that was carried by Ewan McGregor’s strong lead performance, was meant to be a limited Disney Plus series. To this day, Lucasfilm still hasn’t announced plans to do more, but that isn’t stopping both McGregor and Hayden Christensen from campaigning to return to a galaxy far, far away.
Ewan McGregor is receiving his own star at Hollywood’s Walk of Fame today, Thursday 12, and ahead of the event, he talked to Variety about his career, paying special attention to his surprisingly long run as Obi-Wan Kenobi, first as one of the leads of the Star Wars prequels, and years later in the Disney Plus show that reunited him with Hayden Christensen.
After expressing his love for Alec Guinness’ work as Obi-Wan Kenobi, he once again openly admitted he’s down to work on another season should the opportunity arise: “I really do hope we get a chance to do another one…between where we ended off in the series and when Alec Guinness comes on screen with Luke Skywalker, I think there’s another few stories to tell in there.” The (for now) limited series ended with Kenobi saving Leia from Imperial captors and facing Darth Vader to finally let Anakin Skywalker, the man he left to die on Mustafar, go. After that, he finally got to meet a very yong Luke and wandered into the desert, only to be greeted by Force ghost Qui-Gon Jinn, which explains why he managed to become one with the Force years later instead of simply dying at the hands of Vader, something that was already suggested in Revenge of the Sith.