Obi-Wan’s Scripts Had been Modified for Being So Grim

The hype for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi present could be very actual, particularly after obtained 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. However again in 2020, his present was unexpectedly placed on indefinite pause, with the scripts being not fairly cited as a purpose why.

Seems, the scripts had been certainly the explanation for the delay, however not as a result of they weren’t prepared. Chatting with 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 find that stability, she admitted, given how Obi-Wan ended Revenge now tasked with guarding the kid of one of the best pal he simply believed he executed. “You may’t simply wave the magic wand with any author and arrive at a narrative that essentially displays what you wish to really feel,” she stated. “We’re wanting, in the end, to make a hopeful and uplifting story.”

It received’t be all enjoyable and video games, although. McGregor himself described his character as “misplaced” after Revenge’s finish, one thing the present will little doubt discover. “He’s a damaged man after what occurred with the Jedi order, but in addition what occurred to Anakin…he feels an infinite quantity of duty for that, and guilt.” Contemplating how a lot occurred to Obi-Wan through the Clone Wars exterior of Anakin going unhealthy, 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 frame of mind.

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 predominant want was to bridge the 2 eras of Obi-Wan from the prequels to the unique trilogy in an natural method over the restricted collection’ six-episode run. “Obi-Wan within the prequels could be very emotional, there’s a ardour to Obi-Wan,” Harold defined. “After we get to see him once more in A New Hope, he’s the Zen grasp. That was the story that I wished to grasp — what had occurred to Obi-Wan between the man that Ewan had delivered to life and the man that Sir Alec Guinness delivered to life.”

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

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

[through IGN]

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