Deborah Chow Offers Update on Lucasfilm's OBI-WAN KENOBI Series Saying It's Still in Development

In case you’ve been wondering what’s been going on with Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series since the series was put on pause and writer Hossein Amini was let go and replaced by Joby Harold (Awake and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword). Executive producer and director Deborah Chow offered an update during a live stream of this year's virtual ATX Festival confirming the project is moving forward.

After fellow Mandalorian director Taika Waititi joked he was "all finished" with his recently announced Star Wars movie, Chow chimed into to say regarding her Obi-Wan series, "We have a little more to do than that, but we're in development."

The story for the series is set between the events of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope as it follows an exiled Kenobi on the desert planet Tatooine, where he serves as the secret guardian of future Jedi Luke Skywalker.

It was previously reported that the plan was to scale the series back from six episodes to only four to tell the story, and we previously reported that the “Kenobi story treaded similar ground as Mandalorian, seeing the Jedi master lending a protective hand to a young Luke and perhaps even a young Leia.”

This is a logline that was previously shared:

Tatooine, a desert planet where farmers work hard under the heat of two suns. Meanwhile, they try to defend themselves and their loved ones from the marauders Tusken. A planet behind the edge of civilization. And a place where it would be unlikely to find a Jedi master, or an orphan child on whom the future of the entire galaxy weighs on its small shoulders.

McGregor revealed that the series will start shooting next year, and when talking about the scripts that had been written, he said:

"The scripts are really good. I saw 90% of the writing and I really liked it. All this bullshit about creative differences and all that stuff, none of it is true. We just pushed the dates ... last episode, [Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker] came out, everyone had more time to read the stuff that had been written, and they felt that they wanted to do more work on it."

The series is supposed to start shooting the beginning of next year.