Ewan McGregor Says Disney Plus’ Obi-Wan Kenobi Series Will Begin Filming In March

In George Lucas’ prequel trilogy, McGregor succeeded Guinness as Kenobi, first portraying the character in 1999’s “The Phantom Menace”. He returned for its two sequels — “Attack of the Clones” (2002) and “Revenge of the Sith” (2005).

McGregor said though he has never met Guinness, he will think of how the veteran actor would have played a younger version. The fun thing about doing that in the first place when I was much younger was trying to imagine Alec Guinness, how would he play these scenes as a younger guy? It led me to watch some of his earlier work, which I had never seen before. Brilliant movies, wonderful films that he’d been in, and I had such a great time studying him in those movies, he said.

John Wick: Chapter 3 executive producer Joby Harold is writing the series, with Deborah Chow attached to direct. It will be a single-season, six-episode show set eight years after Revenge of the Sith and 11 years before A New Hope.