‘Hello There’: First Look At Ewan McGregor In ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series Has Arrived With New Teaser

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Seventeen years after he last suited up in “Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith”, Ewan McGregor is finally back in his Jedi robes.

A new teaser has just been released for the upcoming series, in addition to new details about the characters. Pictured on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, McGregor teases where audiences will join Obi-Wan Kenobi’s story when the Disney+ series arrives on May 25. “We find Obi-Wan at the beginning of our story rather broken, and faithless, and beaten, somewhat given up,” the 50-year-old actor says.

Not much else is known about the series’ plot, other than some of the galaxy’s familiar faces from the prequels will return, including Canadian actor Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader and Joel Edgerton as Uncle Owen. READ MORE: ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series To Feature ‘Star Wars’ Superfans As Extras Canadian filmmaker Deborah Chow, who also helmed two episodes of “The Mandalorian”, directs all six episodes of the series and is especially grateful for the casting of Egerton. “Thank you, George [Lucas], for casting Joel Edgerton as Uncle Owen,” she laughs. “That’s all I can say.

The release of the new images comes as the official “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Twitter account came alive with the Jedi’s classic greeting and the first line of dialogue ever uttered by Kenobi on-screen. READ MORE: Liam Neeson Responds To Rumours He’ll Appear In ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Series: ‘I Haven’t Been Approached’ One of the big reveals in EW is the first look at the villain known as Inquisitor Reva, played by “The Queen Gambit”‘s Moses Ingram.