More Obi-Wan Kenobi? Ewan McGregor is game — and already cooking up ideas

He’s not just mulling it over — Ewan McGregor has already taken an Obi-Wan Kenobi idea straight to Dave Filoni . According to Variety, McGregor floated a pitch about charting what happened to Yoda after Revenge of the Sith — and whether Obi-Wan could reach him — while Filoni was busy shooting Ahsoka with Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

McGregor has already shared his Obi-Wan pitch with Lucasfilm chief Dave Filoni, per Variety.

The timing slides neatly into the space left by the 2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series, which ended with the Jedi walking off into the Tatooine dunes after deciding Luke needed a normal childhood without a watchful guardian hovering nearby. McGregor now sees that solitary stretch as prime territory for another chapter.

Why he’s fired up

McGregor’s enthusiasm is a far cry from the early-2000s backlash that pushed him away from fan events for years. The warm reception around the Disney+ series flipped that script — hearing grown-up fans roar for the prequels they loved as kids reframed his whole relationship with the galaxy far, far away.

Carrying the Guinness torch

Part of why a return intrigues fans: McGregor’s meticulous link to Alec Guinness. He studied Guinness’s A New Hope delivery, even keeping an audio file of the older actor ’s lines to nail the cadence. He’s talked about matching posture, hand movements, and small expressions to bridge the prequels to the original trilogy without it feeling like an impression.

Meanwhile, on Hulu

While he waits to see if Lucasfilm bites, McGregor has another TV turn lined up with Hulu’s The Spot, a psychological thriller opposite Claire Danes.

• Format: eight episodes; psychological thriller
• Premise: Danes plays a successful surgeon whose life unravels after a child is killed in a hit-and-run
• McGregor’s role: the surgeon’s schoolteacher husband
• Behind the scenes: produced by A24; showrun by Ed Solomon
• Timeline: slated to begin production in 2026