After Disney’s Star Wars deal, a film era began in 2015 with the Force Awakens. Lucasfilm, who planned to make Star Wars side films for the first time outside the main series, said goodbye to this project after two films. The failure of Han Solo, in particular, caused this whole “interlude” attempt to be thrown away. In fact, if things were to go well, we would see Ewan McGregor’s return as Obi-Wan Kenobi as a motion picture, not a Disney+ series. Even the script of the film was ready.
The story written by Stuart Beattie, who has also written films such as Collateral and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in his career, will contain quite dark tones. In the film, which will also include Commander Cody, the character of Reva, which we see in the series, will again take place, but Reva will die at the end of this story. In fact, the real plan in Beattie’s mind was a Kenobi trilogy, but Disney wasn’t very optimistic. The most striking part of the successful screenwriter’s interview with The Direct is that it includes a fight scene between Kenobi and Luke Skywalker.
According to Beattie’s script, which tells the story that somehow the film will not happen anymore, Kenobi, who crosses paths with a group of worshippers of the Force, will go to a sacred place where the power is quite intense. Beattie;s depiction of Luke vs Kenobi is as follows;
Obi Wan vs Luke “The leader of the group takes Obi-Wan to his holy temples and tells him; Put your hands here and close your eyes. Let the Goddess (which becomes the Force itself) speak to you. Then, when Obi-Wan, who has done what he is told, opens his eyes, he finds himself in Mustafar. Naturally, he is trying to understand how he got here. Then he sees someone in a dark robe, with a red ray sword. After he calls out Anakin, we see that the person is Luke. A 19-year-old Mark Hamill! Then Luke attacks him, and Obi Wan and Luke have a lightsaber duel in a mine. This is, of course, a reference to Empire Strikes Back. At the end of the duel, Luke almost kills Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan wakes up from this prediction. Simply put, this was a vision of a future in which Obi-Wan continued to train Luke. Because Kenobi was putting all his remorse on that child, and Luke was going to the dark side. So this is Obi-Wan; I have to stop pursuing this; it was one of those moments when he came to his senses. Because that’s the future he was moving forward into. I loved this development, I loved bringing Luke. But that story was of course long before they brought Luke to The Mandalorian. We were actually going to be the first to do it, and it was going to be a nightmare and it was going to be fun.” |
In the truly expanded universe that became post-Disney Legends, there were times when Luke fell into the clutches of the dark side. We have already seen Kenobi’s remorse and regret clearly in the series. Now that it is no longer likely to be real, Stuart Beattie’s version may not have been so bad. At least in A New Hope, we could have looked at why Kenobi suddenly made himself a Force Ghost from a different perspective. Eventually, Disney moved on with the series, and we watched a Kenobi with good and bad. Let’s see if we will really see a Sith Luke in the new Star Wars projects in the future.
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