STAR WARS: Lucasfilm President Explains Why It Never Made Sense For Rey To Be Related To Obi-Wan Kenobi

STAR WARS: Lucasfilm President Explains Why It Never Made Sense For Rey To Be Related To Obi-Wan Kenobi

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy has responded to a popular fan theory that Rey was originally going to be portrayed as Obi-Wan Kenobi's daughter, explaining why she doesn't think that makes sense.

By JoshWilding - May 19, 2022 09:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: Vanity Fair

It's been almost three years since the Skywalker Saga concluded with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. For many fans, that's a period of storytelling they would like to forget, especially given the way the stories of the franchise's original leads, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa, were handled.

Not even Emperor Palpatine's return managed to satisfy those same fans after The Last Jedi's divisive take on Luke, and the fact Rey was the villain's granddaughter was more of a perplexing reveal than an exciting one. The daughter of a Palpatine clone who escaped those Sith Loyalists, Rey's heritage may have better tied her to the wider Star Wars franchise, but there had been other better theories.

Was Rey being Obi-Wan Kenobi's daughter one of them? For some people, yes, However, during a recent Vanity Fair interview, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy explained why that wouldn't work.

"The bigger issue is talking about Obi-Wan as a Master Jedi, and the issue of attachment and selflessness. In order for Obi-Wan to have a child, you are really, really impacting the rules around the Jedi," she explained. "What does that mean? If that were explored - and certainly there were a lot of ideas being thrown around - but anything to do with Obi-Wan in that regard was pretty much off the table because it flies in the face of everything George created in the mythology."

"We’re not rigid about it. It’s certainly open for discussion all the time," she continued. "But that’s a pretty significant tenet in the mythology of the Jedi that we’d be reluctant to mess with."

We can't disagree with this assessment, and Obi-Wan suddenly having a child would have felt pretty forced...as did Palpatine having a granddaughter, to be fair. Unfortunately, love them or hate them, the Star Wars sequels were a mess and that comes down to a lack of planning on Lucasfilm's part.

They're looking to make up for that now, though, and we'll get to spend more time with "Ben" Kenobi when Obi-Wan Kenobi's first two episodes premiere on Disney+ on Friday, May 27.

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Forthas
Forthas - 5/19/2022, 9:51 AM
She should have been the grand daughter of Sifo-Dyas! It would have connecetd her to the past, would have been consistent with her parents leaving her because she would not have had the protection of the Jedi, and he was removed from the Council leaving him able to have a family.
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