Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series has been left to casually rest against some sort of pipe thing coming out of a wall.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, production on the series about a man we very briefly knew as Ben has been halted as the higher-ups sort out the show’s direction. Series scribe Hossein Amini, who wrote Drive before director Nicolas Winding Refn made it half silent film, is said to be getting replaced. He’d apparently only written two episodes of what was meant to be a six-episode story—though it’s said that order may now be brought down to four episodes.
With star Ewan McGregor doing press for Birds of Prey, he’s already been asked about and downplayed the issues, saying, “We just pushed the shoot to the beginning of next year. The scripts are really good. I saw 90% of the writing and I really liked it. All this bullshit about creative differences and all that stuff is, none of it’s true.
“It’s not nearly as dramatic as it sounds online,” he added.
If nothing else, at least now the 48-year-old has a bit more time to age into not looking preposterously youthful? As if anyone believes he’ll look like 1977 Alec Guinness in 15 years.
