Obi-Wan Kenobi Movie Screenwriter Created Reva; Plan Was to Have Darth Vader Kill Her

The Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi series introduced audiences to Reva Savander, the Third Sister of the Imperial Inquisitorius, and as it turns out, she was part of the pitch when the project was originally planned as a film, according to its writer. Not only that, but her story had a very different ending planned.



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In an interview with The Direct, Stuart Beattie, the scribe for the Obi-Wan Kenobi movie script, stated that 'I created Reva all the way through,' and that she had an important role in his version of the story, being the Inquisitor who would target Leia and set the stage for a rematch between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader. The script that he wrote was subsequently adapted and adjusted by other writers when the project was converted into a television series, such as Hossein Amini, Joby Harold, and Andrew Stanton.



However, Reva's original character trajectory was somewhat different than the show, which revealed she joined the ranks of the Inquisitors to get a chance to get close to and kill Darth Vader (whose secret identity she deduced) as a means of avenging those who died on the night of Order 66. This was not the case originally, as even though she encountered the fallen Anakin Skywalker, she would not know who the man behind the mask was:

Instead, she would have felt a deep distrust for the Jedi Order, due to her own feelings of discomfort in being taken away from her previous life as a young child, and due to buying into Emperor Palpatine's lie that the Jedi orchestrated a civil war, with the Separatist movement led by one of their own, as they plotted a coup to seize control over a weakened Republic:

Beattie went on to explain that in his draft of the story, Reva Savander was the only significant Inquisitor in the story, meaning that stuff like her rivalry with the Fifth Brother and her surprising move to stab the Grand Inquisitor to take his position were added by subsequent writers on the project, since the focus of what would have been a two-plus-hour movie would have been on Obi-Wan and Darth Vader. Reva was created as a means to draw Obi-Wan out of hiding and to get the two to fight:

Still, Beattie planned for Obi-Wan Kenobi and Reva to fight at some point, and that Obi-Wan was going to give her a redemptive arc of sorts without her fully becoming a heroic character. As it turns out, this the reason why Reva ultimately didn't know the truth about Darth Vader - Beattie explains that Obi-Wan telling her the truth about the man behind the mask was going to be a major moment for her character arc:

Despite Obi-Wan 'saving' Reva, however, her story wasn't meant to be open-ended like it was at the end of the series. Reva was first planned to be a one-and-done character, with her fate sealed at the business end of Darth Vader's lightsaber:

The writers of the series ultimately disagreed, opting to have Reva figure out that Vader was Anakin on her own before failing to kill him in revenge. Reva instead targeted Luke for what she referred to as 'justice', but ultimately decided not to go through with it out of fear of becoming what she hated. Her story ends Obi-Wan comforting her, and her renouncing her ties to the Inquisitorius, subsequently allowing her the freedom to live.







Lastly, there have been many comparisons made between Reva Savander and Trilla Suduri, the Second Sister from 2019's Jedi: Fallen Order, a sympathetic antagonist who suffered similar trauma to Reva's. Beattie notes that he worked on his script prior to the completion of Fallen Order and that he had no knowledge of what they were doing with her. Beattie explained that this was unintentional and that the reason he created Reva was to have a new character, though he mentions one character that he planned to use that didn't make it into the show:

All six episodes of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi are streaming on Disney Plus.



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