Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow and LucasFilm president Kathleen Kennedy have opened up about the potential of a second season for the Star Wars sequence.
The highway to the Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence has been a protracted and sophisticated one. Because the story goes, the sequence was initially conceived as a movie when Disney and LucasFilm have been decided to place out one new Star Wars movie a 12 months. These plans crashed and burned when Solo: A Star Wars Story underperformed on the field workplace. Because of this, most of the concepts and ideas that may have made their approach into theaters as an alternative discovered their approach into the varied Disney Plus sequence. The Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence was supposedly one such venture.
The transition from a movie to a miniseries was apparently not a straightforward one. The sequence was placed on maintain by LucasFilm a minimum of as soon as and a brand new author was introduced on board to assist even the scripts out. Earlier this week, the primary trailer for the sequence made its debut, teasing Inquisitors and a model of Obi-Wan Kenobi who continues to be coping with the actual fact they misplaced. The query on some folks’s minds, nevertheless, is whether or not or not the sequence may have a second season.
Kathleen Kennedy has stated up to now that the venture was going to be a restricted sequence. In a current interview with Leisure Weekly, director Deborah Chow confirmed that it was conceived as a self-contained story
“It was undoubtedly conceived as a restricted sequence, and it’s one huge story with a starting, center, and finish. The method has all the time been that it’s one full story.”
Kathleen Kennedy echoed these sentiments however didn’t rule out the prospect solely:
“It’s actually one thing we discuss primarily as a result of all people got here collectively and had such an unimaginable time. Ewan [McGregor] had an unimaginable time. Hayden [Christensen] had an unimaginable time. So actually from that viewpoint, all people concerned would like to see this not finish. However we have now to actually spend our time asking the query: Why would we do it? If we have been to determine to do something extra with the Obi-Wan character, we’d have to actually reply the query why?”
Directed by Deborah Chow from Joby Harold’s scripts, the sequence stars Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton, Bonnie Piesse, Kumail Nanjiani, Indira Varma, Rupert Good friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, and Benny Safdie. The sequence will even see the return of legendary Star Wars composer John Williams, who scored a theme.
Obi-Wan Kenobi will hit Disney Plus on Might 25, 2022. Keep tuned for all the most recent information surrounding the upcoming sequence and be sure you subscribe to Heroic Hollywood’s YouTube channel for extra unique video content material.
Supply: Leisure Weekly
