Lucasfilm dropped the supremely awesome Season 3 mid-season trailer for Star Wars Rebels just a short time ago and needless to say it features some eye-popping action. The trailer includes the return of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (“Old Ben” to those of us old enough to refer to the character by that name growing up) voiced by Stephen Stanton.
Kenobi first appears in the teaser is a young man, a distant, echoing voice (reminiscent at first of the Jedi master’s message to Rey in the Forceback flashback from The Force Awakens). Aspiring young Jedi Ezra Bridger hears the voice in his sleep and follows it to a Jedi holocron, where an image of Kenobi has appeared, delivering his warning to any Jedi who survived the purge from Revenge of the Sith.
This younger version of the Jedi master is voiced by James Arnold Taylor, doing his finest Ewan McGregor, but by the end of the teaser we will see Kenobi at a much different stage in life, one that remains shrouded in mystery in Star Wars storytelling: his exile as a hermit on the planet Tatooine, watching over Luke Skywalker from afar.
Stephen Stanton, who also supplies the voices of Grand Moff Tarkin on the series and was the Churchill-like crustacean commander Admiral Raddus in Rogue One, plays this Alec Guinness-version of Kenobi.
