
In November 2021 it was teased that Obi-Wan Kenobi would feature a new fight between the show’s exiled hero (Ewan McGregor) and his former student, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen). While it had already been announced that Christensen’s Darth Vader would appear in the Disney+ series, the announcement that he might actually cross lightsabers with McGregor’s Obi-Wan came as a surprising development to many Star Wars fans.