Stephen Stanton is Voicing Obi-Wan for Star Wars Rebels.
While Dave Filoni and company expressed interest in working with Ewan McGregor for an animated Star Wars project, it appears as though Rebels was not meant to be it. Instead, Stephen Stanton, who has previously voiced Grand Moff Tarkin in the show and Admiral Raddus in Rogue One, will be doing an impersonation of Alec Guinness’ voice (though James Arnold Taylor has seemingly recorded a few lines as the younger version of Obi-Wan for his holocron message).
From ComicBook.com:
Veteran voice actor and Star Wars stalwart Stephen Stanton is providing the voice of Obi-Wan “Old Ben” Kenobi on Star Wars Rebels, Lucasfilm Animation confirmed to Comicbook.com. The actor has been working with the Star Wars family since 2005, when he voiced the same character, Ben Kenobi, as well as Darth Maul in the video game Star Wars: Battlefront II.
In more recent (and canon) years, however, he’s also made a lasting imprint on the Star Wars landscape already. Stanton voiced Mas Amedda and Admiral Tarkin, amongst several other smaller roles, on Star Wars: The Clone Wars for several years. He’d continue on as Grand Moff Tarkin on Star Wars Rebels, as well as assorted other voices on the series like the droid AP-5.
Stanton also voiced the older Ben Kenobi in Disney Infinity 3.0, showing off his mimicry of Sir Alec Guinness, who played the role in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
As you can tell from his credits, Stanton has a lot of great work under his belt and already has some professional experience imitating Alec Guinness. Hopefully, he can leave as strong a mark with his portrayal of Obi-Wan for Rebels as he did with Tarkin (who is also set to have more appearances on the show).
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
http://images-cdn.moviepilot.com/images/c_fill,h_960,w_648/t_mp_quality/zaveu82rllwviehusy3z/could-an-obi-wan-kenobi-spin-off-movie-look-like-this-521947.jpg As much as I love Kenobi, hopefully his involvement in Rebels is minimal. I want Ben’s time on Tatooine told on the silver screen.
But there are canon comics about his time on tatooine.
Well aware of that.
Probably just sitting around that campfire most days.
Dude. It’s Tatooine. Little hot for a camp fire during the days.
It’s still possible, regardless of his appearance in Rebels. It’s 19 years of potential adventures. Tatooine is a big planet, anything can happen.
Great, 20+yrs of keeping a very low profile on an outer rim planet.
Sounds thrilling.
I don’t even think the crew of the Ghost will meet him. Maul will find him and we will get their final show down.
I had assumed James Arnold Taylor would be making an Alec Guinness-like voice, which would have helped bridge the gap a bit, but oh well.
Does it mean that the new tv series is going to be about the early years Kenobi spent on Tatooine as a guardian?
Huh?
No, why would it?
Yeah, didn’t Feloni mention that Disney wants to roll out with a brand new CGI show after Rebels hits season 4 or 5. I’d love to see a period of the Jedi Purge.
I don’t recall him saying that, but I do know that there have been rumblings/rumors.
cushing and Guinness had a similar accent. This guy did a great job at replicating both.
It’s called ‘RP’, Received Pronunciation. A ‘standard’ UK accent, used widelly through theatre and early TV. It’s what most people think British people sound like.
I don’t usually imagine British people as rolling their R’s. I unusually imagine British people as sounding more like the cast of Harry Potter.
Often depends on which school you went to. Some of us still sound like that.
Fancy.
Not really, my parents picked it. But you get put on hold less often.
lol
Oh! I thought that it was only some common british accent, didn’t know it was actually something like that! Thanks!
Agreed, he nails Cushing’s voice. More so than the Rogue One actor.
From that one line it reminded me instantly of old Obi-wan, he’s great for that role
Total horse s*&t….Why would they put Obi Wan in this cartoon? In Episode IV he clearly acts like he has not been in contact with ANYONE who knew him for almost 20 years when R2-D2 found him..It’s not just the line ” Obi wan? Obiwan Kenobi? now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time. I haven’t gone by the name of Obiwan since Oh before you were born”…its the way he acts when he says it and the way he slowly sits down while he says it realizing that his passed has finally caught up to him…If they have maul just call him Kenobi or Ezra call him master Kenobi it is still going to be stupid.. I wish Dave Filoni would stop F*(&ing with the Canon already…bringing Maul back was stupid enough…now he is going to screw it up even more…he even mentions that he is inventing a new meaning behind yoda telling Luke he is the last jedi..as he says it with his huge douchebag smile…what a jacka**..What is he to do next? resurrect Greedo because he is a popular character and make it so he was saved by the MosEisley EMT’s? So far Disney is doing a great Job of screwing everything up…Everyone is hyping up Rogue One..and i’m sitting here like…uhhhh…do you guys not even realize that a couple weeks after Vader bulldozes through all of those soldiers with his lighsaber tricks he fights Obiwan Kenobi again and looks like he is 90 years old and can barely move? Not to mention that the plans weren’t even sent to the Tantive IV and were sent to the damn command ship. and a disc was ” taken to the Tantive IV. And although Leia is clearly being chased from a battle where she detached from a Rebel ship that Vader witnessed himself…when he captures her she argues that she is out on a diplomatic mission after he asks her about the transmissions that were beamed to “: HER” ship….yeah makes sense doesn’t it? It’s like people are just turning a blind eye to all the BS Disney is doing and completely F&*(ing up just because it’s Star Wars…the same crap all the prequel lovers forced themselves into…I aint drinking the Kool- aid…especially now that they are bringing Obiwan into Rebels….What a Joke
TL;DR
You have a very long winded and well grounded opinion here.
Not everyone agrees.
Filoni, like Lucas before him with the prequels are constantly adding to the lore and in the process rewriting some of the established canon. We all remember what old Ben says. But man, for f$%^& sake it’s not like they’re rewriting the Holy Bible. Of course it’s near and dear to our hearts but it’s ENTERTAINMENT. Why can’t simply let these minor conflicts slide and enjoy the show. Star War fans seem to be among the most jaded fans ever. Geez.
“So, what I told you was true… from a certain point of view. … Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view”.
He is a beast of a voice actor. I thought it was Alec in the brief clip I just saw. I like Taylor just fine in other roles but his Obi-Wan is still merely adequate compared to his.