Before becoming a Disney Plus limited series, Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to be a movie trilogy. In an interview from The Direct with writer Stuart Beatti, who wrote the planned films, he revealed how plans had shifted.
He had pitched the idea to Lucasfilm in 2016 to do an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie trilogy. To him, it was meant to bridge his evolution from Obi-Wan to Ben.
Everything was ready to go as the world would have had an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie trilogy rather than the Disney Plus series, which concluded on June 22nd.
The death of the Obi-Wan Kenobi movie trilogy
The middling reviews and poor box office for Solo: A Star Wars Story killed the pitch. The origins of Han Solo with Alden Ehrenreich (Hail, Caesar!) had a budget of $275 million and could not make that up as it grossed $392 million worldwide. For Beatti, he was “devastated” when his films were shelved.
Beatti got the credit he deserved when the Obi-Wan Kenobi movie trilogy went to become a Disney Plus series. He was credited for episodes one, two, three, and the finale, episode six. You can watch the whole series on the streaming platform. It stars Ewan McGregor, Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit), Vivien Lyra Blair (Bird Box), Haiden Christensen, Kumail Nanjiani, Rupert Friend, Sung Kang, James Earl Jones, and more.
