OBI-WAN KENOBI Series Director Says Ewan McGregor Has Pitched Season 2 Ideas
The Disney+ Star Wars limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi was one that sort of fell flat for fans. It wasn’t without its own cool moments, and it wasn’t all bad, but it seemed to suffer from not great writing, and it felt like it could have gone further and done more. It was written as a one-shot story, and it seemed as though it was all wrapped up, but director Deborah Chow says there’s a small chance that may not be the case, at least that is if Ewan McGregor has anything to say about it.
In a recent interview with THR, Chow explained:
"You always think you're going to end a series like this in some magnificent way, but instead you end up in a parking lot with second unit and hardly anybody there. It's always so anticlimactic, but as Ewan and I finished our very last shot on second unit and I was literally taking off my headphones, he was already pitching me ideas for season two. There's another 10 years with plenty of stories, and I don't think it's off the board. It is a 'never say never' situation, but we really did conceive this to be a limited series."
Chow says McGregor has plenty of ideas, but she continues to emphasize that the show was created as a limited series, and talks about how difficult it was to make with a timeframe set between two film trilogies.
"That was the biggest challenge of the whole project, and that's also why it had gone through so much development. You're between two trilogies with these huge, iconic characters. Everybody knows what happened to them, before and after, and you're starting with a character where the public perception is that he should be sitting on that rock for 20 years. But those 20 years [between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope] had so much to explore on an emotional level."
Do you think the series had its chance to tell a great story? Or do you think another season could give the show a shot at really taking the story to the next level?