Deborah Chow, the director of the Disney+ present, Obi-Wan Kenobi, went on the Crew Call podcast to speak concerning the challenges that got here alongside engaged on the limited series. She had simply completed Mandalorian and Kenobi had gone via “quite a few iterations” and handed via a number of fingers earlier than touchdown in her lap.
She says that whereas Kenobi was initially pitched as a standalone movie, even by the point it bought to her, as a restricted sequence, it was all the time conceived as “one massive story.” So it made sense that they might faucet one director to steer all six episodes of the present. “This was a personality journey for Obi-Wan,” Chow says. They targeted a number of consideration on Revenge of the Sith, ensuring that they bought the nuanced characterization for Obi-Wan within the aftermath of Order 66.
Chow additionally revealed that they have been submitting the finale episode for Emmy consideration. “The center of the present is all the time going to be the scene between Hayden and Ewan with the cracked masks. That was every little thing the present was constructing to.” She additionally cited the character moments with Leia, stating that “the brand new journey” that Kenobi set the characters on was actually essential for her to arrange.
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