Obi-Wan Kenobi Release Time Brought Forward by 3 Hours

Obi-Wan Kenobi — the brand new live-action Star Wars restricted collection, that includes the return of Ewan McGregor’s titular Jedi Master and Hayden Christensen’s Darth Vader — is now streaming on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar wherever out there. That’s sooner than anticipated, a full three hours in reality. Early Friday in India / late Thursday within the US, Disney+ revealed that Obi-Wan Kenobi would premiere Thursday, May 26 at 9pm PT, which interprets to Friday, May 27 at 12am ET / 5am BST / 9:30am IST / 2pm AEST. We’re getting the primary two episodes of the brand new Star Wars collection — Part 1 is 52 minutes lengthy, whereas Part II runs 38 minutes — as had been introduced earlier.

At 8:25am IST on Friday, Lucasfilm and Disney+ introduced — alongside a brand new poster with McGregor — that Obi-Wan Kenobi would debut early, with tweets. The caption learn: “The time for @obiwankenobi has arrived…early. Start streaming the first two episodes TONIGHT at 9PM PT on @disneyplus.” While Disney+ Hotstar did not trouble with a tweet of their very own, Gadgets 360 noticed the primary two Obi-Wan Kenobi episodes going dwell on the service round 9:30am IST. On Disney+ Hotstar, as beforehand introduced, the brand new Star Wars collection is out there in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. (Obi-Wan Kenobi is the second Star Wars collection to be provided in 5 languages.)

In addition to Ewan McGregor as Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi who now lives in exile on Tatooine, and Christensen as his former Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker turned Sith Lord Darth Vader, the brand new Star Wars collection additionally stars Joel Edgerton as Tatooine moisture farmer and Anakin’s step-brother Owen Lars, Bonnie Piesse as Owen’s spouse and Luke’s step-aunt Beru Whitesun Lars, Moses Ingram as ruthless and impressive Inquisitor Reva Sevander / the Third Sister, Indira Varma as an Imperial officer, Rupert Friend because the Galactic Empire’s Grand Inquisitor, Sung Kang as an Inquisitor named the Fifth Brother, and Kumail Nanjiani as street-level con man Haja. O’Shea Jackson Jr., Simone Kessell, Benny Safdie, Maya Erskine, and Rory Ross have undisclosed roles.

Directed by Deborah Chow (The Mandalorian season 1), Obi-Wan Kenobi is about a decade after the occasions of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, which ended with the destruction of the Jedi Order and the completion of Anakin Skywalker’s flip to the darkish facet. McGregor and Chow are government producers on Obi-Wan Kenobi alongside showrunner Joby Harold, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, and Lucasfilm SVP for live-action content material Michelle Rejwan. The legendary John Williams is answerable for the Obi-Wan Kenobi theme, with Natalie Holt (Loki) dealing with composer duties. Chung Chung-hoon is the director of images on the brand new Star Wars collection.

The first two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are actually streaming on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. Following the Friday premiere, one new episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi debuts Wednesdays round 12:30pm IST. The Obi-Wan Kenobi collection finale is about for June 22.