Beattie Talks Scuttled “Obi-Wan” Films

Long before “Obi-Wan Kenobi” became the limited series that inspired good ratings numbers and divisive discourse, it was planned as a film.

The box-office failure of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” essentially scuttled all then-current plans for spin-off films, with the ‘Kenobi’ project being one of the victims until it was retooled as a series.

“Collateral” and “Australia” scribe Stuart Beattie was one of the original writers on that film to the point that so much of his material was reused in the series that he scored writing credits on the first three and the final episode of the run.

Speaking to The Direct about his involvement, he revealed despite his credits he didn’t