“Of course, Anakin and Obi-Wan weren’t on the greatest of terms when we last saw them… It will be interesting to see what an amazing director like Deborah Chow has in store for us all. “It was such an incredible journey playing Anakin Skywalker,” Christensen said last fall. Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Deborah Chow, Ewan McGregor, and writer Joby Harold are all executive producers on the show.

Robot, Better Call Saul, and most recently of The Mandalorian, will direct all six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi. “The story begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith where Kenobi faced his greatest defeat, the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker turned evil Sith Lord Darth Vader,” Lucasfilm explains on the official Star Wars website.ĭeborah Chow, who has directed episodes of Mr. The cast also features Kumail Nanjiani ( Silicon Valley), Moses Ingram ( The Queen’s Gambit), Joel Edgerton ( The Gift), Indira Varma ( Game of Thrones), and Sung Kang ( The Fast and the Furious). Aside from a few voiceover cameos, Christensen has not been involved in the Star Wars franchise since Revenge of the Sith, but he has a prominent role in the new show. The most interesting addition is Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader. Hopefully, a future 'Gallery' special will clear things up.In addition to announcing the start of production, Disney also revealed the rest of the cast that will appear alongside McGregor. Jones may well have recorded the lines so his performance shines through, though we can't help but wonder whether that might have been Hayden Christensen's doing with his voice before it was swapped out for this A.I. It sounds like they did work on the show, but are currently unable to comment.

But we were uploading data packets to Skywalker Sound when the invasion began.' 'I can’t say yes or no on James Earl Jones,' Serdiuk quickly responded, adding there are 'lots of secrets still with Obi-Wan Kenobi. James Earl Jones certainly sounds a lot more youthful in the show than he did in 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and at 91, we don't know how active he is as a performer these days. With Respeecher also credited for Obi-Wan Kenobi (starting with the third episode), the site wondered whether their technology has also been used for Darth Vader. In this case, countless hours of audio from the movies and even audiobooks were used in order to teach their A.I.

That means that someone should be saying the lines that are needed to be converted into a target voice.' So, Hamill - or perhaps even another actor - delivers a basic vocal performance and then Respeecher changes that so it sounds like a young Luke Skywalker. 'The one the most well known and would be text to speech like an Alexa speaker or Siri. 'In general, there are two approaches to synthesize a voice,' he explains. It's pretty mind-blowing, and when Inverse (via ) caught up with Respeecher founder Alex Serdiu, they got some insights into how the process works. What this means is that the voice we heard in The Book of Boba Fett was, essentially, not real.

The latter is actually a voice synthesizer that made it so Mark Hamill sounded as he did when the original Star Wars trilogy was filmed.Īfter all, voices change over the years, and in Hamill's case, he's now 70 years old. The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett made use of highly advanced technology in order to bring Luke Skywalker back to our screens, with a combination of de-ageing VFX, Deepfake, and Respeecher used to achieve that effect.

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