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Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series was originally pitched as a trilogy of feature films.According to writer Stuart Beattie, who is credited on four episodes of the Disney+ series, his work on the show was based on a screenplay he wrote for the planned feature film – which was scrapped due to the poor box office performance of spin-off film Solo.Speaking to The Direct, Beattie said: “I wrote the film that they based the show on. So, yeah.

Zack Sharf Had “Solo: A Star Wars Story” not disappointed at the box office in 2018, then “Obi-Wan Kenobi” might’ve been a full-fledged movie trilogy instead of a six-episode Disney+ limited series. Screenwriter Stuart Beattie has “story by” and/or writing credits on multiple “Obi-Wan” episodes, but he recently told The Direct that he had no involvement with the Disney+ series. Beattie’s credit carried over from his work drafting the first movie in an intended “Obi-Wan” trilogy.“I wrote the film that they based the show on,” Beattie said.

Well before “Obi-Wan Kenobi” became the series it is today and debuted on Disney+, the original idea at Lucasfilm was to tell the story in a feature film. For years, the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” feature film was in development, but nothing ever came to be, largely because “Solo: A Star Wars Story” derailed the idea of having a bunch of spinoff films.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSPOILER WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS DISCUSSION OF MAJOR STORYLINES AND SCENES IN “INTERCEPTOR.”First-time director Matthew Reilly admits he never anticipated his feature film debut “Interceptor” to do as well as it has since its release on Netflix earlier this month. The movie, which follows a U.S.

Fast & Furious actress Elsa Pataky and Holidate’s Luke Bracey have signed on to star in Interceptor, an action drama that will be released by Netflix.

Recounting the Battle of Long Tan fought by Australian soldiers in Vietnam in 1996, director Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close is a formulaic yet involving war film that details the harrowing events endured by 108 soldiers as they faced an army of 2,000.