‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ was originally pitched as a film trilogy

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Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series was originally pitched as a trilogy of feature films.According to writer Stuart Beattie, who is credited on four episodes of the Disney+ series, his work on the show was based on a screenplay he wrote for the planned feature film – which was scrapped due to the poor box office performance of spin-off film Solo.Speaking to The Direct, Beattie said: “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.“Joby [Harold] came on and took my scripts and turned it from two hours into six.

So, I did not work with them at all, I just got credit for the episodes because it was all my stuff.”Beattie’s original pitch to Lucasfilm in 2016 involved “three stories” for Obi-Wan Kenobi.

The first became the show’s first season, while the second was pitched as “thinking about where Kenobi ends up” in 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope.“One of the most powerful and probably the most powerful moment in all of Obi-Wan’s story is that moment where he sacrifices himself in A New Hope,” Beattie said.“Great moment, you know, makes you cry.