OBI-WAN KENOBI Movie Didn't Feature The Grand Inquisitor...But Included U.S. Marshall-Style Clone Troopers

OBI-WAN KENOBI Movie Didn't Feature The Grand Inquisitor...But Included U.S. Marshall-Style Clone Troopers

Obi-Wan Kenobi writer Stuart Beattie has explained that his version of the story would have swapped The Grand Inquisitor and his subordinates for a group of evil Clone Troopers loyal only to Reva...

By JoshWilding - Jul 05, 2022 09:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: The Direct

Obi-Wan Kenobi finally delivered a live-action take on the Sith Inquisitors, but it wasn't quite what many fans had been hoping for. Reva's story arc was oddly similar to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order's Second Sister, and The Grand Inquisitor...well, he didn't exactly translate from animation particularly well. As for the rest, they were pretty much non-factors in the show. 

Prior to becoming a six-part TV series on Disney+, Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to be a movie. Penned by Stuart Beattie, it mostly played out similar to what we saw on the streaming service, but there were some noteworthy differences. 

While Reva was going to be part of the big screen Obi-Wan Kenobi, the plan was for her to be followed into battle alongside a special group of Clone Troopers. "[Reva] had a squad of Stormtrooper Marshals," the writer reveals. "So, I thought, ‘Yeah, of course, the Stormtroopers have like the equivalent of the U.S. Marshals, right?’ Except that these guys were Clones."

"They were all Temuera Morrison, speaking in his voice, and they were all veterans of the Clone Wars. They all knew Kenobi. They knew these Jedi they were hunting, and they still [had] the biochips in them," Beattie continues. "They did not miss when they shot, and they were absolutely ruthless. There were ten of them. And they were commanded by a guy named Commander Jet. And so they were her squad and they all ended up dying over the course of the story."

The writer would go on to say that he didn't want to include The Grand Inquisitor because he felt that the character's death in Star Wars Rebels robbed his story of any stakes (as fans would know he lived to fight another day). In fairness, the show got everyone talking with that fake-out demise for the villain, so there were definitely ways Beattie could have incorporated him. 

Still, the prospect of an evil group of clones is an interesting one, especially as Cody would have joined Ben on Tatooine by this point. However, Lucasfilm has clearly gone in a different direction, with The Bad Batch starting to explain how Clone Troopers were quickly replaced by Stormtroopers relatively quickly after the Empire gained power over the Galaxy. 

Would you have liked to see this group of Clones joining Reva in battle in Obi-Wan Kenobi?

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