When Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi makes its Disney+ debut in May, the character’s theme music will probably be composed by one in all Star Wars’ most essential architects: John Williams, whose symphonic scores for the unique trilogy (and different adjoining works) have lengthy helped the collection really feel each epic and emotionally resonant.

The first two Star Wars collection to reach on Disney+, The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, had distinctive themes composed by Ludwig Göransson that felt completely suited to the outsider characters they have been hailing. It additionally is smart for Obi-Wan, one of many collection’ most enduring figures, to get a extra classical strategy. As Variety, which broke the news, stories, “it is a coup for both Lucasfilm and Disney, considering the five-time Oscar winner rarely composes for television”—though he has accomplished it prior to now (see: Amazing Stories); he additionally composed the enduring Olympics theme, which you’ll be able to’t activate NBC proper now with out encountering.

The commerce notes that whereas Williams—who simply turned 90 mere weeks in the past—recorded the theme with an orchestra in Los Angeles final week, it’s not but identified who’s composing the rating for every of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s six episodes. It’s additionally not identified if the Obi-Wan Kenobi theme will repurpose or reprise any of Williams’ earlier Star Wars compositions (maybe the immediately recognizable Force theme, aka “Binary Sunset,” will sneak in there?), which additionally embrace the McGregor-as-Kenobi-starring Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith. We’ve reached out to Lucasfilm for any remark or clarification and can replace this submit if we hear again.

Written by Joby Harold and directed by Deborah Chow, Obi-Wan Kenobi stars McGregor because the Jedi watching over a sure younger Luke Skywalker on Tatooine, together with Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, and Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse as Luke’s (doomed) adoptive mother and father. The remainder of the forged contains Moses Ingram, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessel, Benny Safdie, and Maya Erskine. The first episode drops May 25 on Disney+.

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