Obi-Wan Kenobi Writer Shares Original Plans For The Character's Story

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Now that the Star Wars spinoff Obi-Wan Kenobi show is officially wrapped, some people behind the project are letting more details out about plans for the future and plans that never came to be. After the show did officially wrap, there were more than a few people who felt the Disney Plus series should have been a movie instead, and it appears that was originally the plan.

The limited Star Wars series is set not long after the empire has executed Order 66 and taken over the galaxy. Obi-Wan is on the run and hiding on Tatooine at the beginning of the show but is soon drawn back into the action when a very young Princess Leia finds herself in trouble. While the show was largely viewed as struggling out of the gate, most fans felt like the story and action were good enough by the end of the six-episode run that they wished it was a movie instead. It turns out that Disney actually had plans to make the show a feature film when the concept was first being discussed.

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Writer Stuart Beattie recently opened up to The Direct about exactly what the plans for Obi-Wan Kenobi originally entailed, saying not only was the series originally going to be a movie, but it was going to be a cinema trilogy. Beattie added that the box office struggles of Solo: A Star Wars Story was a big reason why Disney decided to go with the streaming series instead. «I wrote the film that they based the show on. So, yeah. I spent like a year, year-and-a-half working on it. And then, when the decision was made not to make any more spin-off films after Solo came out, I left the project and went on to other things,» Beattie said. «Joby came on and took my scripts and turned it from two