Obi-Wan Kenobi Release Date Moved, Two-Episode Premiere Set

Obi-Wan Kenobi launch date has been moved — by two days. On Thursday, with a video that includes star Ewan McGregor, Disney and Lucasfilm introduced that the following live-action Star Wars collection will now premiere Friday, May 27 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar wherever out there. (Obi-Wan Kenobi was initially set to hit Disney’s streaming companies on Wednesday, May 25.) But although the brand new Star Wars collection now arrives two days later, it’s going to include double the enjoyable. Yep, the primary two episodes will drop on May 27. That mentioned, future episodes will nonetheless drop on Wednesdays, which implies we can be handled to 3 Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes within the house of six days.

Disney did not say why it was altering its launch technique for the upcoming Star Wars collection. The American leisure big launched Wednesday premieres for all its authentic Disney+ collection following the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe collection Loki — that change was additionally introduced by way of a video that includes its personal star Tom Hiddleston — that had shifted to Wednesdays. But it isn’t prefer it’s clashing with every other main collection too. The ongoing MCU collection Moon Knight wraps up May 4 — Star Wars Day, in reality — and the following one, Ms. Marvel, premiering June 8, was going to conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi whatever the change.

If it so desired, Disney may have put Obi-Wan Kenobi on Fridays, and saved Ms. Marvel on Wednesdays, nevertheless it’s not doing that. That means for 3 Wednesdays in June, Star Wars and Marvel will conflict with new episodes from each universes dropping on the identical time. Speaking of clashes, Disney’s resolution to maneuver the Obi-Wan Kenobi premiere to May 27 means it is now going to launch reverse one other massive present, over on Netflix: the highly-anticipated fourth season of Stranger Things. Netflix has break up Stranger Things 4 into two components although, with the second quantity not due till July 1.

Set 10 years after the occasions of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, during which Obi-Wan Kenobi (McGregor) confronted his best defeat as his finest buddy and Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) turned to the darkish aspect and have become Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi picks up with Kenobi on Tatooine wanting over a younger Luke Skywalker. Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, and Benny Safdie are additionally a part of the brand new Star Wars collection. Deborah Chow (The Mandalorian) directs, Joby Harold (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) is showrunner and head author.

Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres Friday, May 27 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar with two episodes. One new episode can be launched on the next Wednesdays till June 22.