Obi 6gw7 Wan Kenobi Now Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar, 3 Hours Earlier Than Expected

New Star Wars series available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. 4h634g

By Akhil Arora | Updated: 27 May 2022 10:24 IST

Obi-Wan Kenobi Now Streaming on Disney+ Hotstar, 3 Hours Earlier Than Expected

Photo Credit: Matt Kennedy/Lucasfilm k85n

Ewan McGregor in and as Obi-Wan Kenobi

Highlights

Obi-Wan Kenobi release time was 12:30pm IST / 12am PT earlier
Disney+ moved it to 9:30am IST / 9pm PT at the last minute
First two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi are out on Disney+ Hotstar

ment

Obi-Wan Kenobi — the new live-action Star Wars limited series, featuring the return of Ewan McGregor's titular Jedi Master and Hayden Christensen's Darth Vader — is now streaming on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar wherever available. That's earlier than expected, a full three hours in fact. Early Friday in India / late Thursday in the US, Disney+ revealed that Obi-Wan Kenobi would premiere Thursday, May 26 at 9pm PT, which translates to Friday, May 27 at 12am ET / 5am BST / 9:30am IST / 2pm AEST. We're getting the first two episodes of the new Star Wars series — Part 1 is 52 minutes long, while Part II runs 38 minutes — as had been announced earlier.

At 8:25am IST on Friday, second Star Wars series to be offered in five languages.)

The time for @ObiWanKenobi has arrived…early.
Start streaming the first two episodes TONIGHT at 9PM PT on @Disneyplus. pic.twitter.com/LgdRC51GW2
— Star Wars (@starwars) May 27, 2022

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 new Indira Varma as an Imperial officer, Rupert Friend as 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 (Loki) handling composer duties. Chung Chung-hoon is the director of photography on the new Star Wars series.

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

Why are they still making more Harry Potter? We discuss this on Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.

links may be automatically generated - see our ethics statement for details.

Read Review

Obi-Wan Kenobi 6v444r

Release Date 27 May 2022
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Cast
Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, Benny Safdie
Director
Deborah Chow
Producer
Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Deborah Chow, Ewan McGregor, Joby Harold

Comments

For the latest reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to know everything about top influencers, follow our in-house Who'sThat360 on Instagram and YouTube.