Liam Neeson's doomed Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn has become a fan-favorite character in the decades since Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace, with rumors persisting that he'll get another ride as the character, potentially in a second season of Disney Plus' Obi-Wan Kenobi streaming series. But according to Neeson himself, he's become fairly disconnected from the Star Wars franchise.
"There's so many spinoffs. So I lost track," Neeson tells ScreenRant when asked about a potential appearance in a second season of Obi-Wan Kenobi. The streaming series brought back Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi, himself the padawan apprentice of Neeson's Jedi master, but no second season is yet confirmed.
Fans have hoped for a follow up to Qui-Gon Jinn's one-and-done live action appearance in the prequel trilogy (aside from a glimpse of his Force Ghost) since he was tragically felled by the villainous Darth Maul, who was in turn defeated by Obi-Wan.
For Neeson, he seems to most fondly remember his original appearance as Qui-Gon in which he took on a somewhat fatherly role to Jake Lloyd's young Anakin Skywalker. Neeson says he'd "love to" have been the Jedi to train Anakin, rather than Obi-Wan taking over for his dead master, specifying that mentioning Lloyd's early portrayal of the character in The Phantom Menace.
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