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Deborah Chow, the director of the Disney+ present, Obi-Wan Kenobi, went on the Crew Name podcast to talk in regards to the challenges that got here alongside engaged on the restricted sequence. She had simply completed Mandalorian and Kenobi had gone by way of “quite a few iterations” and handed by way of a number of palms earlier than touchdown in her lap.
Connecting the Collection to the Prequels and Authentic Trilogy
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 huge story.” So it made sense that they might faucet one director to guide all six episodes of the present. “This was a personality journey for Obi-Wan,” Chow says. They centered numerous 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 had been submitting the finale episode for Emmy consideration. “The guts of the present is all the time going to be the scene between Hayden and Ewan with the cracked masks. That was all the things 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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