Obi-Wan Kenobi is among the few Star Wars Disney+ sequence that pays direct homage to the unique George Lucas movie canon, versus sequence corresponding to The Mandalorian ,which closely incorporate the animated lore created by Dave Filoni.
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Episodic director and EP Deborah Chow had the daunting activity of taking over the baton left behind by Lucas within the 2005 Star Wars film Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, stylistically and story sensible, to inform the persevering with story of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker-turned-Darth Vader and the younger twins Leia and Luke.
Chow stepped into the sequence to direct all six episodes after one other director vacated. She acknowledges that the sequence was initially hatched as a stand-alone film on the newest episode of Crew Name.
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Chow’s largest hurdle in the whole sequence was capturing in the course of the thick of Covid — earlier than there was a vaccine. Andor initially was set to movie in London however wound up being shot throughout the road from The Mandalorian‘s soundstages in Los Angeles.
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“It was fairly intense,” says Chow, who did all her pre-production prep from Toronto. She didn’t meet her key artistic division heads in-person till filming commenced.
“Something with background was all the time demanding as a result of we had little Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) operating round,” Chow tells us. Nonetheless, “we didn’t get shut down.”
We discuss with Chow about Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen taking over their characters greater than a decade later and why she selected the ultimate episode “Half VI” as her Emmy submission.
So far as extra Obi-Wan Kenobi?
“This was conceived as a restricted sequence; it’s closed,” says Chow.
Nonetheless, “There’s 10 extra years earlier than New Hope, so by no means say by no means.”
