George Lucas' Secret Role In Obi-Wan Kenobi's Darth Vader Rematch Revealed

Members of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s sound team explained how George Lucas played an important role behind-the-scenes.

Star WarscreatorGeorge Lucashad a significant role behind the camera while developing an important sequence inObi-Wan Kenobi.

He really had us be involved in the project from a very early time.

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So we knew that there was going to be a confrontation between two Legacy characters."

During the much-discussed rematch, there was a moment whenDarth Vader’s mask was shattered by Kenobi.

And thats the last time Obi-Wan sees him.

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So this was a moment for them to have some humanity."

So we had that very fragile intimate scene there.

We wanted to preserve that humanity and that was something that was done in the mix."

That was the job of the mixer, which was fantastic there."

In the duel, Kenobi was buried by rocks when Vader unleashed his Force powers on his former Master.

We wanted to feel his shutdown and then his resurgence.

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Hes picking up giant rocks and spitting them around and all that.

So thats just the dynamics of that mix and that balancing of that to feature those moments."

And so theres trial and error.

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You discover new challenges when youre putting it all together."

Obi-Wan Kenobiis streaming on Disney+.