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Obi Wan Kenobi Casts 10 New, Including Kumail Nanjiani, Sung Kang, and Joel Edgerton

Obi-Wan Kenobi Casts 10 New, Including Kumail Nanjiani, Sung Kang, and Joel Edgerton 163s3q

Filming begins in April on the Star Wars series. 1c2v2u

By Akhil Arora | Updated: 30 March 2021 10:59 IST

Obi-Wan Kenobi Casts 10 New, Including Kumail Nanjiani, Sung Kang, and Joel Edgerton

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Obi-Wan Kenobi main cast

Highlights

Obi-Wan Kenobi release date likely in 2022
Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse return as Owen & Beru Lars
No word on Star Wars characters for the other eight

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Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Star Wars series at Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, has announced its full cast. In addition to Ewan McGregor in the title role and Hayden Christensen returning as Darth Vader — whom we already knew about — we have Moses Ingram (The Queen's Gambit), Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith), Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Rupert Friend (Homeland), O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), Simone Kessell (Terra Nova), and director Benny Safdie (Good Time). And oh, Obi-Wan Kenobi begins filming in April.

Revenge of the Sith, where Kenobi (McGregor) won the duel with Anakin but lost his best friend and saw the Empire emerge from the ashes of the Republic.

There's no word on which characters the other Obi-Wan Kenobi cast — Ingram, Nanjiani, Varma, Friend, Jackson Jr., Kang, Kessell, and Safdie — will be playing, but Star Wars fans have begun speculating as to whether they will be human, alien, or droid.

Behind the scenes, Deborah Chow — who helmed two episodes of tossing out all the scripts after) switching writers from Hossein Amini (Drive) to Harold.

Obi-Wan Kenobi will air on early 2022 possibly).

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