Kathleen Kennedy appears open to more Obi-Wan Kenobi

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By Stacy Lambe* 6:29 AM PDT, June 22, 2022

After six action-packed episodes, Obi-Wan Kenobi has come to a satisfying close on Disney+. Yet the question remains, will the series return for more seasons, especially after Ewan McGregor, who reprised his role as the titular Jedi Master opposite Hayden Christensen as his former mentee-turned-Sith Lord, previously expressed interest in telling more of Kenobi’s story?

According to director Deborah Chow, who helmed all six episodes, Obi-Wan Kenobi was designed as a one-off event. “For this one, we really did conceive it to be a limited series,” she tells ET. “It really is one big story with a beginning, middle, and end. So, we weren’t thinking past that.”

Of course, given how this saga ends -- Darth Vader still wanting to kill Kenobi, Reva (Moses Ingram) left to find a new path, and Kenobi holed up on Tatooine as he protects Luke from afar -- and that there’s still plenty of time between the events of Obi-Wan Kenobi and A New Hope, there’s always potential for more stories to tell.

“I think, you know, if it was to go forward, it would only be if there was a real reason for another one,” Chow says.

While the director’s comments were largely echoed by Kathleen Kennedy, the Lucasfilm president seemed a bit more open to the idea of expanding the series beyond one season. “Well, frankly, we did set out to do that as a limited series,” she says.

“But I think if there's huge engagement and people really want more Obi-Wan, we’ll certainly give that consideration because the fans, they speak to us,” she adds. “And if we feel like, ‘OK, there’s a real reason to do this; it's answering the why then,’ then we’ll do it. But we’ll see.”