Obi-Wan Kenobi Director Explains Darth Vader's Return
Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow explains Darth Vader's return in the upcoming Disney+ series. Chow first joined Star Wars on The Mandalorian season 1, directing two episodes of that series. Lucasfilm was so impressed with her work in that short time that she was brought back to direct all six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which were written by Joby Harold (Army of the Dead). The highly anticipated series is now one month out, premiering on the 45th anniversary of A New Hope's release, May 25.
First and foremost, the series will see the return of Ewan McGregor as the titular Jedi Master. Set 10 years after Order 66, Obi-Wan now lives on Tatooine and watches over a young Luke Skywalker on the Lars Homestead, where he is raised by Owen (Joel Edgerton) and Beru Lars (Bonnie Piesse). Also returning from the prequel trilogy is Hayden Christensen, who played Obi-Wan's former Padawan-turned-Sith Lord Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. However, many questions still remain about the iconic villain's return.
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During a discussion with Entertainment Weekly, Chow explained what went into the decision to bring back the Dark Lord. Though there were a lot of differing opinions on the matter in Obi-Wan's writer's room, the limited series format ultimately presented the perfect opportunity to tell a "character-based and character-driven" story for Vader, which Chow thought was too good of an opportunity to pass up. Read what she had to say below:
Honestly, for me the starting place was that I really wanted to do something that was character-based and character-driven, because that is the benefit of the limited series, is that you have more time to sort of tell a real
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