Lucas originally swapped out Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Liam Neeson’s Qui-Gon Jinn as characters. Or at least, they swapped names. Neeson was going to play Obi-Wan, the older mentor ...
Obi-Wan would have still died in battle, and upon his death, his student Qui-Gon would have assumed his name. The idea is that Obi-Wan’s death would have come as a total surprise. Every fan of ...
Both the Jedi and Sith have names that even people not particularly well-versed in the canon recognize, as such Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn are practically synonyms for the Jedi order and ...
In what Variety calls a “bombshell twist,” Phantom Menace almost featured a disastrous name-swap twist in its closing moments. Concept and storyboard artist Iain McCraig tells StarWars.com that ...
Jedi and Sith names like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn are widely recognized, even by people who don’t follow the series closely. These characters have become symbols of the Jedi Order and ...