Ewan McGregor says there’s now a "wave of positivity" about the Star Wars prequels

Ewan McGregor in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series
(Image credit: Lucasfilm)

Like Luke Skywalker shooting at womp rats, the Star Wars prequels used to be easy targets. An over-reliance on CGI, bureaucracy, and an unbalanced plot, though, has since given way to a more positive response to The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Revenge of the Sith.

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"Now I meet the people who we made those films for, who were the kids of the time. And our Star Wars films are their Star Wars films. In the way that Carrie Fisher and Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford's films were ours, we're theirs," McGregor – who is returning for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney Plus – told .

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Excitingly for many a Star Wars fan, the prequels will have major ties to the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. "The strongest connective tissue for us is to the prequels," director Deborah Chow revealed. "Because that's where our characters are coming from and that's where their s🀅tories started. So, really, the prequels are t🔯he most connected to our series."

One of those key links is that between Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan and Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker-turned-Darth Vader. The last time we saw the pair together, one had the higher ground while the other was being submerged in lava. We don’t know much about what Kathleen Kennedy has called the "rematch of the century" but the 𝔉first look at Darth Vader from the upcoming series reveals the Sith L🌃ord is just as menacing as eꦫver.

For more from the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, check out 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the first trailer as well as our accompanying 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:trailer breakdown. Plus, there’s more on Rupert Friend’s villain, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Grand Inquisitor.

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