The two seasons of The Mandalorian and Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett saw the roster of Star Wars characters in live-action series overlapping and crossing over to other Star Wars shows, but in the case of the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series, fans shouldn’t be expecting to see much connection to the two earlier series.
Given the timeline of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, it's not much of a surprise that it will seemingly be absent of those characters, though devout fans of those series will somewhat be disappointed that we’ll have a longer wait before getting to see more of their adventures. Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi arrives on Disney+ on May 27th.
"Given the nature of our characters, the strongest connective tissue is to the prequels for us," director Deborah Chow said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "Because in large part, that's where our characters are coming from and that's where their stories started. So really the prequels are sort of the most connected to our series."
As of now, there have already been several confirmed appearances in the upcoming Star Wars series, yet Chow emphasized how the story of Obi-Wan Kenobi is more focused on this one character’s journey as opposed to being an opportunity for crossovers.
"Obviously I came from The Mandalorian, so a lot of that DNA is in me," Chow said. "And a lot of my Jedi masters, with Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, are also just sort of embedded in me now, but I wasn't looking to tie in necessarily anything. It was just trying to tell the story with integrity to the character, and so that was the connection to the prequels."
The origins of the Obi-Wan Kenobi project were as a movie, which explains more about how the series was approached as a standalone story, with the writer of the show, Joby Harold detailing how the concept embraced more of a standalone feel.
"From the beginning, we've all thought of this as its own unique story," Harold explained. "I had always thought of it as its own chapter in bigger canon between the prequels and the original trilogy. There was a story that hadn't been told, which to me was sort of episode 3-and-a-half. And so within that vacuum, I've personally been thinking about it as its own close-ended story, whilst knowing that it's already connected to the past and connected to what's coming. But wherever possible, I've thought of it that way, as opposed to it existing within a larger tapestry of some of the other shows that are coming out. So it's its own story."
Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi is set to premiere its first two episodes on May 27, on Disney+.
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