"So when I pitched my Obi-Wan story to Lucasfilm, I said, 'There's actually three stories here. So, I did not work with them at all, I just got credit for the episodes because it was all my stuff."īeattie also revealed that his original story pitch to Lucasfilm in 2016 involved convincing them of "three stories" for Obi-Wan Kenobi, the first of which ended up becoming the series' first season (and featured the death of Reva) and the second that looked ahead to the Jedi Master's lead-up to A New Hope: Joby came on and took my scripts and turned it from two hours into six. And then, when the decision was made not to make any more spin-off films after Solo came out, I left the project and went on to other things. I spent like a year, year-and-a-half working on it. I wrote the film that they based the show on. So, yeah.
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In an exclusive interview with The Direct's Nathan Johnson, Obi-Wan Kenobi writer Stuart Beattie talked about his role in making the Ewan McGregor-starring project and how it was originally imagined as "a full trilogy." Beattie was credited as a writer for Episodes 1, 2, 3, and the season finale of the series.īeattie revealed that he only wrote the screenplay for the original feature film that the show was based on and never collaborated with the series' writers, while also mentioning Solo's box office performance as the reason for the Kenobi movie never getting made: Obi-Wan Kenobi's Planned Trilogy Stuart Beattie Now, the project's very first writer has opened up about how his plan for Obi-Wan Kenobi's story didn't just comprise of one theatrical feature, but three.
Joby Harold was subsequently brought on to take over as head writer, paving the way for the version director Deborah Chow eventually brought to Disney+. Stephen Daldry and Hossein Amini were brought on to direct and write the film, respectively, before the project shifted into an episodic format with the launch of Disney+ in 2019. And originally, that was exactly Lucasfilm's plan. However, despite its success, a portion of the Star Wars fanbase has expressed that the show would have been a better story as a standalone film.
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The series as a whole proved to be extremely popular amongst fans, breaking viewership records on the streaming platform. Obi-Wan Kenobi has wrapped up on Disney+, bringing back Ewan McGregor as the titular character, telling the story of how he was forced off Tatooine between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope and, pitting him against his former Padawan learner Darth Vader.
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