Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Original Story was So Grim, It Got Rewritten

The hype for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi present may be very actual, particularly after received our first actual glimpse of it earlier within the week. Star Wars’ latest Disney+ collection is winding again the clock to post-Revenge of the Sith, with Ewan McGregor returning to the luxurious beard of the titular Jedi. But again in 2020, his present was unexpectedly placed on indefinite pause, with the scripts being not fairly cited as a cause why.

Turns out, the scripts had been certainly the rationale for the delay, however not as a result of they weren’t prepared. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly for his or her cowl story, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy revealed that the unique scripts had been “too bleak,” therefore the delay and alter in writers from Hossein Amini (introduced on when Kenobi was initially deliberate as a movie) to Joby Harold. There was problem to find that steadiness, she admitted, given how Obi-Wan ended Revenge now tasked with guarding the kid of one of the best buddy he simply believed he executed. “You can’t just wave the magic wand with any writer and arrive at a story that necessarily reflects what you want to feel,” she mentioned. “We’re looking, ultimately, to make a hopeful and uplifting story.”

It gained’t be all enjoyable and video games, although. McGregor himself described his character as “lost” after Revenge’s finish, one thing the present will little doubt discover. “He’s a broken man after what happened with the Jedi order, but also what happened to Anakin…he feels an enormous amount of responsibility for that, and guilt.” Considering how a lot occurred to Obi-Wan in the course of the Clone Wars exterior of Anakin going dangerous, from encountering Darth Maul once more to reuniting with and dropping his lover Satine, the present has loads of fertile floor to play with with regard to its lead character’s way of thinking.

Harold described Obi-Wan as a “minor obsession” of his, and informed EW the way it was his ardour for the character that landed him the writing gig. His major want was to bridge the 2 eras of Obi-Wan from the prequels to the unique trilogy in an natural means over the restricted collection’ six-episode run. “Obi-Wan in the prequels is very emotional, there’s a passion to Obi-Wan,” Harold defined. “When we get to see him again in A New Hope, he’s the Zen master. That was the story that I wanted to understand — what had happened to Obi-Wan between the guy that Ewan had brought to life and the guy that Sir Alec Guinness brought to life.”

According to collection director Deborah Chow, only some elements of the unique story made it to the present, whereas all the pieces else underwent “pretty big” modifications. And that’s a little bit of a disgrace; Star Wars doesn’t do bummer endings all that always. Other than Revenge, the closest the franchise has gotten on this regard has been the endings to Clone Wars and Rogue One. Though it is smart to have a bit extra of an uplifting journey for Kenobi, listening to the unique story was bleak has you surprise what Amini’s concepts had been that warranted such heavy rewrites.

Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi premieres May 25 on Disney+.

[through IGN]

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