Production starts on Disney+'s Star Wars Ahsoka series with Rosario Dawson.

by Thinus Ferreira

Production has started on Disney+'s latest Star Wars series, Ahsoka, with Rosario Dawson reprising her role as seen in the other Disney+ Original, Star Wars: The Mandalorian.

The start of production was revealed through Star Wars' Twitter handle on social media, posting an image of the director's chair with the name Ahsoka printed on the back, and producer-director Dave Filoni's trademark black cowboy hat draped over the one side.

Hayden Christensen will be appearing in Ahsoka reprising his prequel role as Akshoka's former Jedi master Anakin Skywalker.

Hayden Christensen is also appearing as Darth Vader in the upcoming new Disney+ miniseries Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi launching on 27 May on Disney+ - with Disney+ launching in South Africa on 18 May just in time for South African viewers to watch the show without it getting ruined by spoilers.

The rest of the Ahsoka cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ray Stevenson.

The first season of Ahsoka will premiere on Disney+ in 2023.

Obi-Wan is on the run in the official trailer for the upcoming 6-episode Star Wars miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi releasing 27 May on Disney+.

by Thinus Ferreira

Obi-Wan is on the run in the official trailer that Disney+ has released for its upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars drama series that will become available from 27 May.

Ewan McGregor is reprising his role, now as a hunted Jedi, and reunites with Hayden Christensen who is now Darth Vader in the 6-episode series which will see episodes released weekly, premiering with a double episode on 27 May.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is set 10 years after the events of 2005's Star Wars Episode III  - Revenge of the Sith, after which Emperor Palpatine ordered Stormtroopers to kill off most of the Jedi across the galaxy with Order 66.

Obi-Wan Kenobi escaped with Luke Skywalker and Leia, and is keeping a watchful eye over a very young Luke on the planet of Tatooine as the Galactic Empire hunts down the remaining Jedi.

In the new series, Disney+ viewers will see the Grand Inquisitor (Rupert Friend) and Inquisitor Reva (Moses Ingram) chase after Obi-Wan, while Obi-Wan has a more than frosty relationship with Luke's adoptive father, Uncle Owen Lars (Joel Edgerton).

Production on Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series for Disney+ to start in April, more casting announced.

by Thinus Ferreira

Production on the Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, for The Walt Disney Company's Disney+ streaming service will start in April with Disney that made several casting announcements for the limited series on Monday.

Several actors have been added to the Obi-Wan Kenobi series that will be headlined by Ewan McGregor reprising his role and with Hayden Christensen also returning; including Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie.

It's very likely that Joel Edgerton will be reprising his role as the character of Owen Lars, the uncle of Luke Skywalker, which he played in the the Star Wars prequel trilogy films of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

The Obi-Wan Kenobi series will take place a decade after the events of Revenge of the Sith after which Anakin Skywalker who was Obi-Wan's Jedi apprentice has turned into the evil Sith lord Darth Vader.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is executive-produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Deborah Chow and Ewan McGregor. Joby Harold is the writer of the series which is one of several spin-offs that Disney has commissioned for Disney+ following the huge success of Star Wars: The Mandalorian.

ALSO READ: Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi series with Ewan McGregor put on hold as Disney reduces script order and looks for a new writer.

Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi series with Ewan McGregor put on hold as Disney reduces script order and looks for a new writer.

by Thinus Ferreira

The planned Star Wars live-action Obi-Wan Kenobi drama series has been put on hold and the script order reduced as Disney is looking for a new writer.

According to The Hollywood Reporter pre-production on the new drama series for the Disney+ streaming service has been put on hold after the first couple of scripts from writer Hossein Amini have been scrapped.

Ewan McGregor who played Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel film series will reprise his role in the TV series with director Deborah Chow but the initial scripts - revolving around how Obi-Wan takes a young Luke Skywalker under his wing - wasn't good enough.

The script order for the as-yet-untitled Obi-Wan series has now been reduced from 6 episodes to 4 episodes. Disney had no comment.

Disney+'s The Mandalorian as the first live-action Star Wars series made its debut in December to huge success, praised by viewers as well as critics and has been renewed for a second season.

Ewan McGregor told IGN that the series delay won't change the release date of the show in 2021.

"I've read about 80, 90 percent of what they've written so far, and it’s really, really good. Instead of shooting this August, they just want to start shooting in January, that's all. Nothing more dramatic than that."

"It often happens in projects, they just wanted to push it to next year. It will have the same release date, I don’t think it will affect the release date. They're still shooting towards having the show release when it was going to be originally."

The new series is set 8 years after the events of Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.