While the main series moves forward past Return of the Jedi with this winter’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lucasfilm’s anthology movies are free to tell stories set at any point in the franchise’s mythology — something that comes as good news to Ewan McGregor, who wants to return to his prequel role of Obi-Wan Kenobi. The actor said,
“I’d be happy to do the story from episodes three where I finish up and Alec Guinness [who played the older Kenobi in the original Star Wars movies] starts.”