‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Gets May Premiere Date at Disney Plus

“Obi-Wan Kenobi” has lastly acquired a Might premiere date at Disney Plus. And no, it’s not Might the 4th.

The Ewan McGregor-led, live-action “Star Wars” sequence will debut Might 25 on the Disney-owned streaming service, Disney CEO Bob Chapek introduced on the corporate’s earnings name Wednesday. Might 25 can also be the forty fifth anniversary of the discharge of “Star Wars: A New Hope.”

“Obi-Wan Kenobi” is about 10 years after the dramatic occasions of “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” the place Jedi Grasp Obi-Wan Kenobi confronted his best defeat — the downfall and corruption of his finest pal and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the darkish facet as evil Sith Lord Darth Vader.

McGregor reprises his function as Obi-Wan alongside Anakin himself, Hayden Christensen. The sequence additionally stars Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Good friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell and Benny Safdie.

The sequence is executive-produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Deborah Chow, Ewan McGregor and Joby Harold.

The much-anticipated “Obi-Wan Kenobi” premiere date information comes on the heels of Disney Plus revealing Wednesday it ended 2021 with 129.8 million paying prospects worldwide, gaining 11.8 million for the quarter ended Jan. 1, 2022. That tally blew previous expectations, as analysts on common had forecast web provides of seven.3 million for the interval, per FactSet.

Total, The Walt Disney Firm reported income of $21.82 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $1.06 for the interval, the corporate’s first quarter of fiscal 2022. That handily beat analyst consensus estimates of $18.36 billion in income and EPS of 61 cents.

See the newly launched posted for “Obi-Wan Kenobi” beneath.