‘Star Wars’ Actor Peter Mayhew Reveals Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Original Fate

The man who plays Chewbacca reveals that Jedi Master’s future could have been very different

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(Spoiler alert: Please do not read if you haven’t had a chance to see the original “Star Wars” movie in the nearly four decades since its release.)

Here’s something to roar about.

“Star Wars” actor Peter Mayhew, who plays Wookiee Chewbacca in the epic space opera, has revealed that the fate of Obi-Wan Kenobi was originally quite different in 1977’s “Star Wars: A New Hope.”

In a Twitter post this week, Mayhew revealed that Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness in “A New Hope,” originally survived his light-saber fight with Darth Vader.

“#chewscript 027 Obi-wan lives through his fight with Vader.

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