Following her work on the first season of “The Mandalorian” TV series for the Disney+ streaming service, filmmaker Deborah Chow was hired to serve as director of the complete run of an event series currently in development about Obi-Wan Kenobi.
The limited series is set eight years after the events of “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith,” essentially around the same time as events of “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” and will see Ewan McGregor reprising his role at a time when Kenobi is in exile on Tatooine.
In January this year came word that Lucasfilm had put the project on hold indefinitely with the project and Hossein Amini’s scripts being retooled. So where does it stand now? Speaking at the virtual ATX Festival, Chow offered a brief up date saying not much has progressed: “we have a little more to do than that, but we’re in development.”
Shooting on the project has been pushed to next year while rewrites continue in order to eliminate similarities to “The Mandalorian” which was a complaint in regards to early drafts.
Speaking of “The Mandalorian,” Jon Favreau appeared at a virtual panel at the ATX Television Festival and confirmed the second season is on the way for October as planned:
“We were lucky enough to have finished photography before the lock down. Thanks to how technology-forward Lucasfilm and ILM are, we have been able to do all of our visual effects and editing and postproduction remotely through systems that had been set up by those companies for us.”
He also confirmed the new season will feel more like a continuation of the first season than a major refresh. Favreau will helm an episode of the new season but Chow isn’t returning this time.
Additionally, Collider is reporting that “Extraction” helmer Sam Hargrave served as a second unit director on the upcoming second season.
Source: CBM
