Obi-Wan Kenobi is already in the rear-view, and it turns out fans who have been discussing whether the series might have been better as a standalone film were onto something. The project's original writer when it was intended to be a film, Stuart Beattie, told The Direct in an interview that there were plans for a full trilogy focusing on the character--until Solo's disappointing box office performance.

"I wrote the film that they based the show on," Beattie said. "I spent like a year, year-and-a-half working on it. And then, when the decision was made not to make any more spin-off films after Solo came out, I left the project and went on to other things. [Screenwriter Joby Harold] came on and took my scripts and turned it from two hours into six. So, I did not work with them at all, I just got credit for the episodes because it was all my stuff."

Beattie added that in his original Obi-Wan pitch to Lucasfilm, there were "three stories because there’s three different evolutions that the character has to make in order to go from Obi-Wan to Ben [in A New Hope]." He then elaborated on the core stories for the intended trilogy, which wound up becoming the show's first three episodes.