Everything Revealed About The Canceled Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie's Story
WARNING! Spoilers ahead for Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1!
While 2022’s Obi-Wan Kenobi ended up as a Disney+ TV show, the creators originally imagined the project as a feature-length film. Adapting Obi-Wan Kenobi’s exiled years on Tatooine onto the screen has been a long time coming, as the plans for Disney’s Star Wars to depict the mysterious timeline in the old Jedi Master’s story have been in the works since 2016. The original pitch for Obi-Wan Kenobi was quite different from the Disney+ limited series that arrived in 2022, as the initial vision involved adapting it for the big screen with a considerably different story.
In the Star Wars timeline,Obi-Wan Kenobi picks up 10 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and nine years before A New Hope, with Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) looking after young Luke Skywalker from afar on Tatooine. Obi-Wan quickly finds himself in a position where he must confront his Jedi past and guilt over Anakin Skywalker’s (Hayden Christensen) dark turn when young Leia Organa (Vivien Lyra Blair) is abducted. The old Jedi Master goes on a mission to retrieve Leia while evading the Emporer's Jedi-hunting Inquisitors, particularly Reva (Moses Ingram), whose goal is to find Obi-Wan and personally deliver him to Darth Vader.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi’s limited series featured an open-ended conclusion, as the eponymous Jedi headed for the Dune Sea with Qui-Gon Jinn’s (Liam Neeson) Force ghost and nine more years’ worth of story left untold. The success of the Disney+ TV show has sparked hope for Obi-Wan Kenobi season 2, which suggests the series could implement certain cut aspects from the original movie plan. As enthusiasm for the
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