Obi-Wan Kenobi Director Says Season 2 Is Not “Off the Board”
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Obi-Wan Kenobi director Deborah Chow recently spoke about their plans for season 2, though the director warns fans not to get their hopes up too soon.
Obi-Wan Kenobi follows the journey of Ewan McGregor’s Jedi master after events in the prequel trilogy. His padawan, Anakin Skywalker has turned to the dark side and become Darth Vader. Filled with hatred, Darth Vader and the Empire started a dark era for Jedis. Obi-Wan went back to Tatooine and lived in hiding. With the falling of the Jedi and Leia and Luke yet to be of age, the Disney+ series shows a particularly vulnerable and dangerous time for man fan-favorite characters in the Star Wars universe.
The series director revealed that because of the massive time gap between the prequel and the original trilogies and all the contrasting forces in play, there are still “plenty of stories” for Season 2. And although the Obi-Wan Kenobi series is billed as a limited release, it’s possible that fans might one day get a renewal announcement.
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“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 told The Hollywood Reporter.
He also said the Obi-Wan Kenobi star already pitched him many ideas for a second season.
“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,” said the director. “It’s always so anticlimactic, but as Ewan and I finished our very shot on the second unit and I was literally taking off my headphones, he was already pitching me ideas for season two.”
Perhaps they both feel unfinished with the Obi-Wan series.
In the same interview, the director revealed that the biggest challenge of the project was to tell a story that fans could connect with on an emotional level during the 20 years the Jedi was supposed to be “sitting on that rock.”
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“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,” said Chow. “But those 20 years had so much to explore on an emotional level.”
Obi-Wan Kenobi is available to stream on Disney+.
