Disney and Lucasfilm’s plan of releasing one Star Wars movie a year indefinitely always seemed like a bad idea. Presumably, Episode IX would have been followed by either Obi-Wan or Boba Fett movies. …

Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE (/ˈjuːən/ YOO-ən; born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor who has starred in various film and musical roles.

Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi Series Is Bringing Back Hayden Christensen’s Darth Vader. Some of the biggest news on the Star Wars TV front broke in 2019 with the reveal that Ewan McGregor is returning for a new Obi-Wan Kenobi project on Disney+.

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According to Collider, the Obi-Wan series is not cancelled but has been put on hold with the crew at Pinewood Studios sent home. This is reportedly due to Lucasfilm president and Obi-Wan producer Kathleen Kennedy being not happy with the scripts for the new series.

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Last Thursday during the Disney Investor Day presentation, it was revealed that Hayden Christensen would reprise his role in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series. The series is set to come out on Disney+ no later than 2022 and, of course, features the return of Ewan McGregor in the titular role as Obi-Wan.

Portman played Padmé Amidala, and Christensen was the infamous Anakin Skywalker. “You know, you have to a little bit if you’re really going to believe yourself in the role,” Christensen answered. “We’re pretty good friends now, but you know, it’s something that you just have to sort of believe.”

The series can even adapt scenes from Clone Wars into live-action, but that’s perhaps less likely. However Lucasfilm uses Christensen as Vader, the fact that he’s coming back in a major way is exciting for Star Wars fans.

Disney’s Investor Day 2020 was full of major Star Wars announcements, including that Hayden Christensen will return as Darth Vader in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+.

The Redditor posits that instead of attempting to reach out to his former apprentice, Obi-Wan calls him by his Sith name as a way to mock his fall to the Dark Side, similar to how the Emperor mockingly calls Luke a Jedi in Return of the Jedi.

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi might have created an opportunity to bring Darth Vader’s apprentice, Starkiller, into the Star Wars canon once again. Debuting in the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game, Galen Marek, aka Starkiller, becomes Vader’s apprentice as the Sith Lord hunts the remaining Jedi following Order 66.

Darth Vader is returning to a galaxy far, far away. President of Lucasfilm Kathleen Kennedy announced at the Disney Investors Day that the “Star Wars” prequel star Hayden Christensen will reprise his role as Darth Vader for the Obi-Wan spinoff series. Kennedy also announced that the series would begin filming in 2021.

Now, following confirmation that Hayden Christensen — who played Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the Star Wars prequel trilogy between 1999-2005 — will return to reprise his role in the upcoming Disney+ streaming mini-series, OBI-WAN KENOBI: An Original Series, fans are wondering if James Earl Jones will also be back.

Hayden Christensen returning as Anakin Skywalker in star-studded ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ series on Disney+

40 years (19 April 1981)