Looks like we’re going to wait even longer for the Star Wars Kenobi series on Disney+ because Lucasfilm wants the script retooled. Director Deborah Chow, who is Star Wars’ first female director with her work on The Mandalorian, is reportedly still attached to the project, as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.
Writer Hossein Amini was not so lucky. Lucasfilm is now looking for new writers following his departure, as sources shared with Variety. Ewan McGregor is very much still attached to the series. In fact, he is confident about the future of the series in an interview with Comicbook.com.
“It just slipped to next year, that’s all,” McGregor told Comicbook.com. “The scripts are really good. I think that so now that Episode IX came out and everyone at Lucasfilm’s got more time to look to spend on the writing, they felt like they wanted more time to write the episodes.”
Additionally, the series is reportedly being shortened from six episodes to just four. They better be really long episodes since eight episodes did not seem nearly enough for The Mandalorian.
Still the delay and lower episode count is better than the rumors that circulated last week that the show had been cancelled. Change seems to be the constant with the Kenobi/Disney+ project. In 2017, Disney and Lucasfilm were planning a Kenobi film, but that idea got canned thanks to Solo: A Star Wars Story going sideways during production and a weak box office take. [We actually really like the Solo film.]
Since the Kenobi series is being completely retooled, any previous news of the development of the series has been wiped clean. We’ll have to wait and see what new direction the series takes.
