![]() Leia’s knowledge of the pseudonym “Ben” in A New Hope is now explicable, as is the fact that she named her son Ben Solo before The Force Awakens. While this played fast-and-loose with what we assumed Leia knew about Obi-Wan in the classic trilogy, this risk worked surprisingly well. One of the most transgressive things that Obi-Wan Kenobi did was assert the idea that Ben went off on a mission to rescue Leia and then came back to watch over Luke. Prior to the airing of the show, most fans assumed that after Revenge of the Sith, Old Ben never left Tatooine until the events of A New Hope. The reveal that there could have been a lot more young Luke Skywalker in Obi-Wan Kenobi is not super surprising. So, while it’s possible that series writer Joby Harold and director Deborah Chow decided to swap Luke for Leia, it’s not entirely clear when this decision was made.īen (Ewan McGregor) and Uncle Owen (Joel Edgerton) look over at Luke Skywalker (Grant Feely) in the final moments of Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the original story outline, Reva doesn’t know Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker and she also doesn’t survive her final encounter with Vader. ![]() ![]() McGregor claimed that at some point there was a “genius moment” where “everyone went ‘Wait a minute,' and then changed it.” It’s unclear if this “genius moment” occurred before or after Stuart Beattie's feature film version of the script, which would have had Inquisitor Reva dying to save Obi-Wan.Īlthough the character of Reva came from Beattie’s concept for a film version of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the final TV series version featured several changes to the arc of that character. “It was going to be a story about me and Luke,” McGregor said, according to. While appearing at FAN EXPO Boston on August 14, Ewan McGregor revealed that the original plan for Obi-Wan Kenobi was not to have Kenobi rescuing 10-year-old Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) from the clutches of the Inquisitors. Vivien Lyra Blair as Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi. ![]()
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