Star Wars is a cycle. If not, ask Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series that has taken ideas from previously canceled projects.
The public may not remember it, but Obi-Wan Kenobi It was going to be a movie first. executive producer Joby Harold has revealed that the television series of Ewan McGregor used ideas recycled from the spin-off of starwars that was cancelled. Joby Harold, who is also the writer of the series, works as an executive producer of the series together with the president of lucasfilm, Kathleen kennedy. The TV show will pick up the story ten years after Revenge of the Sith. He will explore the time of the Jedi during his exile, when he cared for a young Luke Skywalker. And it will also mean the long-awaited return of Hayden Christensen in the skin of Darth Vader.
The legacy of a previous development, but better explored
With the premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi on the horizon (comes this Friday), executive producer Joby Harold sat down with SFX Magazine to talk about the series. Obviously, he reviewed the entire trajectory of the project. Therefore, he looked back in time, to the past. Joby Harold has revealed that the series of Disney+ ultimately used story ideas from the canceled Star Wars spin-off film. For him, the serial format was a model that best fit the story they had developed for this character. The truth is that the galactic saga that model is not even painted.
“To be honest, we have taken and inherited many ideas from the developments that this story had in the past,” admitted the executive producer of Star Wars about the series of Obi-Wan Kenobi. “There’s also a lot of new directions and ideas that we’re exploring for the first time when rebuilding some of that legacy stuff. It’s wonderful that it’s a limited series now, because it gives you enough space to really build the character. Now you can spend some time with Obi-Wan in his normal world before some of the things that were already seen in the trailer happen.”