Ewan McGregor promises Obi-Wan Kenobi won't look anything like the awful Star Wars prequels

In a Hollywood Reporter profile, McGregor recalls the horror of George Lucas piling unnecessary CGI onto the prequels, because Lucas “loves technology and loves pushing into that realm. He wanted more and more control over what we see in the background.” And the actor agrees with fans that the visuals absolutely sucked, with Revenge Of The Sith mostly consisting of bluescreens instead of the detailed sets we love from the original trilogy. “After three or four months of that, it just gets really tedious—especially when the scenes are… I don’t want to be rude, but it’s not Shakespeare,” he said. “There’s not something to dig into in the dialogue that can satisfy you when there’s no environment there. It was quite hard to do.”

But thankfully, a lot has changed since the early ’00s. Technology, for instance: As McGregor explains, Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi uses a process called StageCraft, where “they project [the virtual backgrounds] onto this massive LED screen. So if you’re in a desert, you’re standing in the middle of a desert. If you’re in the snow, you’re surrounded by snow. And if you’re in a cockpit of a starfighter, you’re in space. It’s going to feel so much more real.” It’s the same technology used for The Mandalorian, so you know what to expect. It’ll be exciting to finally see McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a way that won’t deeply embarrass him—and us.