At about one minute into the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" Official Trailer, we hear an Inquisitor named the Third Sister (Moses Ingram) calling on "every lowlife and bounty hunter" to hunt Obi-Wan, which is followed by a quick shot of a droid bounty hunter firing a blaster at Obi-Wan. The design of this droid immediately got fans talking, since it bears a striking resemblance to 4-LOM, one of the bounty hunters Vader hires in "The Empire Strikes Back."
This brief shot had fans theorizing about whether or not 4-LOM would play a major role in the upcoming series (and, by extension, what other bounty hunters might make an appearance), though Deborah Chow recently confirmed that the droid is not actually 4-LOM at all. During an interview with UPROXX, Chow explained that (despite the similarities) the droid we see in the trailer is actually a new character called 1-JAC.
Chow declined to release any further information about 1-JAC in her interview, and no doubt fans will be incredibly disappointed to learn that 4-LOM won't be appearing in the series after all. Perhaps the funniest part about this case of mistaken identity is the fact that 1-JAC isn't even the first Disney+ droid to be mixed up with a character from "Empire Strikes Back." IG-11 from "The Mandalorian" looks identical to the assassin droid IG-88, who actually appeared in the exact same scene as 4-LOM. One has to wonder why Disney would bother reusing these identical droid designs just to create totally new characters, especially when the series itself is already being used to connect the prequel trilogy to the sequel trilogy.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi" premieres on Disney+ on May 27.
