Obi-Wan Kenobi Was Originally a Trilogy, and We’ve Only Seen Part 1

There’s no phrase but on if Obi-Wan Kenobi will return to Disney+ for extra seasons, however apparently the tales are there. In a brand new interview, author Stuart Beattie defined that the unique plan for Obi-Wan Kenobi was to make three motion pictures, and the story on the primary season of the present was simply half one.

Beattie is credited as a author on episodes one and three of the Disney+ present, and given story credit score for episodes one, two, and 6. Despite that, he by no means had any interplay with anybody concerned with the present. How can that be? Well, it’s as a result of Beattie, who additionally wrote Collateral and 30 Days of Night amongst others, wrote a screenplay for an Obi-Wan Kenobi film that was going to be directed by Stephen Daldry. A film that obtained scrapped in favor of a streaming present, however nonetheless ended up very a lot being part of that streaming present.

“I wrote the film that they based the show on,” Beattie stated to the Direct. “So, yeah. I spent like a year, year-and-a-half working on it. 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. Joby [Harold] came on and took my scripts and turned it from two hours into six. So, I did not work with them at all, I just got credit for the episodes because it was all my stuff.”

And that stuff was just the start. Beattie initially pitched Lucasfilm one thing very epic: a brand new Star Wars trilogy. “So when I pitched my Obi-Wan story to Lucasfilm, I said, ‘There’s actually three stories here. Because there’s three different evolutions that the character has to make in order to go from Obi-Wan to Ben,’” Beattie stated. “And the first one was the first movie, which was the show, which was, ‘Surrender to the will of the Force. Transport your will, surrender your will. Leave the kid alone.’”

“So then, the second [movie] was thinking about where Kenobi ends up,” the author continued. “And one of the most powerful and probably the most powerful moment in all of Obi-Wan’s story is that moment where he sacrifices himself in A New Hope. Great moment, you know, makes you cry. But, if you stop and think about it, it’s a pretty sudden thing, to just kind of go be fighting a guy, to see Luke and go, ‘I’m gonna die.’ You know, that to me, that required forethought. That required pre-acceptance that this was going to happen.”

Beattie is correct in that evaluation. The present doesn’t fairly offer you a full image of why Obi-Wan, in his subsequent (we expect) duel with Vader, lets himself be killed. Is it as a result of Luke and Leia have been reunited and he’s spent years coaching for this with Qui-Gon? Probably. But that’s implicit, not express.

The interview at the Direct will get a bit extra into that, with Beattie considering that story—of how Obi-Wan realized he’d should die—is definitely simply film two of his trilogy. He by no means really wrote these movies although as a result of he was anxious about getting half one off the bottom. Which it will definitely did, simply not in the way in which he wished.

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