{"id":15981,"date":"2022-05-25T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1651033"},"modified":"2022-05-25T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:32:12","slug":"obi-wan-kenobi-director-promises-epic-yet-personal-star-wars-story","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/obi-wan-kenobi-director-promises-epic-yet-personal-star-wars-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi-Wan Kenobi director promises \u201cepic\u201d yet \u201cpersonal\u201d Star Wars story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Not long now until the highly-anticipated <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/obi-wan-kenobi-series-release-date-disney-plus\/&quot;\">Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/a> prequel lands on <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/disneyplus\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Disney Plus<\/a>. The streamer has kept plot details firmly under wraps, and star Hayden Christensen \u2013 who is reprising his role as Anakin Skywalker\/Darth Vader \u2013 has teased there will be <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/obi-wan-kenobi-hayden-christensen-exclusive-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">fun surprises<\/a> in store for Star Wars fans.<\/p>\n<p>Now, director Deborah Chow has revealed what we can expect in an exclusive interview with <a href=\"\/\/RadioTimes.com&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a>, promising a \u201ccharacter-driven\u201d series and \u201ca very personal story\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut at the same time,\u201d she added, \u201cbecause of the nature of the characters, there\u2019s definitely an epic feel to it, and a scope to it. So it\u2019s a little bit of a mixture of both, of trying to tell a very personal story and sort of an epic landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six-parter will pick up with Ewan McGregor\u2019s Obi-Wan Kenobi 10 years after the events of Revenge of the Sith. He\u2019s living in the arid sands of Tatooine to protect an infant Luke Skywalker \u2013 from a distance.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"&quot;Obi-Wan\" kenobi=\"\" teaser=\"\" trailer=\"\" disney=\"\" width=\"&quot;200&quot;\" height=\"&quot;113&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TWTfhyvzTx0?feature=oembed&quot;\" frameborder=\"&quot;0&quot;\" allow=\"&quot;accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<p>The trailer confirmed we would be seeing the Inquisitors make their live-action debut, and it looks like the red sabre-wielding Jedi hunters will put Obi-Wan\u2019s skills to the test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething that The Mandalorian doesn\u2019t get to do much is the classic lightsaber clash,\u201d Chow explained. \u201cWe do know we\u2019ll see a bit of that in this series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chow also went into detail about how she approached these action scenes, and how they might feel different from the ones we\u2019ve seen on the big screen.<\/p> <p>\u201cI think the difference with this series as opposed to, you know, maybe some of the films is that, because it\u2019s a limited series, and obviously it\u2019s done for streaming, this is about one character \u2013 we\u2019re not trying to tell the story of the whole galaxy,\u201d she said. \u201cSo it\u2019s a more personal story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, when I was approaching a lot of the action \u2013 or any of the bigger set pieces \u2013 it really had to come out of the character, and it had to feel personal. So that was something I was really aiming to do as much as possible in the series with the action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars is no stranger to emotional action scenes, both on the big screen and in its animations. After all, the franchise delivered one of the biggest reveals in cinematic history during a lightsaber fight\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Huw Fullerton.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Obi-Wan Kenobi series will air on Disney Plus on Friday 27th May 2022 at 8am GMT. You can <\/strong><strong><a href=\"\/\/disneyplus.bn5x.net\/c\/1236178\/564546\/9358?subId1=radiotimes-607408&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2Fen-gb&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\">sign up to Disney Plus now for \u00a379.90 for a year or \u00a37.99 a month<\/a><\/strong><strong>. 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen t<\/b><strong>o the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Ga<\/strong><b>rvey.<\/b><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lidia Molina-Whyte Published: Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 12:00 am Not long now until the highly-anticipated Obi-Wan Kenobi prequel lands on Disney Plus. 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