After a week of swirling rumours that the much anticipated Disney+ show about Star Wars fan-favourite character Obi-Wan Kenobi was cancelled, the truth finally came out yesterday: the show is not cancelled, but it has been put on indefinite hold due to script problems.
According to Collider, the team working on the series has been sent home. Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, was reportedly unhappy with the quality of the script and asked for it to be reworked. According to one source, the previous script was very similar to The Mandalorian, featuring Obi-Wan taking care of a young Luke Skywalker.
According to Ewan McGregor, who previously portrayed Kenobi in the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy and is confirmed to be returning to the series, production has been pushed to 2021 and that the internet has exaggerated the reports. "The scripts are really, really good," he had to say, "and they want to make them better."
This continues a long-running streak of behind-the-scenes problems of Disney's Star Wars movies, although it is the first Disney+ series to have production difficulties. Recently Game of Thrones showrunners David Beinoff and D.B. Weiss were removed from an as-of-yet unknown Star Wars project, and Solo and The Rise of Skywalker infamously had their directors replaced during production.
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