Obi-Wan Kenobi writer Andrew Stanton admits to feeling some frustration while writing for the Disney+ Star Wars series. Stanton is known best for his writing on Pixar films such as Finding Nemo and Wall-E, the latter of which won an Academy Award and is the first Pixar movie added to the Criterion Collection library. However, while working on Obi-Wan Kenobi, Stanton felt a constraint he hadn’t felt in his other writing work. Speaking to io9, Stanton recalls how exciting it could be to write dialogue for iconic characters like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader, but the pressure of always having to ask, “‘Does that fit the canon?’” feel “bittersweet,” he says. “[The reason that happens is] because people care, but it also kind of doesn’t allow, sometimes, things to venture beyond where maybe they should to tell a better story. So it can sometimes really handicap what I think are better narrative options.”
