Ewan McGregor has confirmed to IGN that, despite the Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi series being put on hold, its not-currently-public release date has not been changed.

"It’s just slid to next year, that’s all. The scripts were really good. I think now that Episode IX came out and everyone at Lucasfilm's got more time to spend on the writing, they felt like they wanted more time to spend on the writing." McGregor said. "I’ve read about eighty, ninety 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 film [show] release when it was going to be originally."

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McGregor spoke to IGN at a Birds of Prey media event, pointing out that these kinds of production delays are fairly common, but it shouldn't impact when fans around the galaxy will see the Obi-Wan Kenobi series debut on Disney+ (although we're not sure exactly when that was supposed to be).Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi series was, according to multiple reports, put on hold because Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy was not happy with the current scripts. The project was put on an "indefinite" hold and the pre-production crew that had reportedly assembled at Pinewood Studios in London was sent home.THR had reported that the Kenobi series only had two scripts written so far (despite Kathleen Kennedy saying the show's scripts were completed when the Kenobi series was announced at D23 last summer).It was also reported that Lucasfilm was trying to "reconfigure" Obi-Wan's six episodes into four as part of the redevelopment process, although when asked about the episode order being cut, McGregor told IGN, "I haven't heard that."This new series was set to take place eight years following the events of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Also, even though this story has found its home as a TV show on Disney+, it was originally set to be a movie. Deborah Chow, who directed episodes of The Mandalorian, will be directing the show , which is just one of many Star Wars TV projects that will help fill the void as the films take a break until 2022. For more on Obi-Wan Kenobi, check out everything we know about the series and see the moment when the long-awaited show was revealed during the D23 Expo 2019.

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