10 Movies That Could Be The Mysterious Third Star Wars Spin-Off

Too unorthodox to be a member of the Jedi Council, the maverick Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn still possessed enormous spiritual resonance: no hothead, he simply undertook a different approach to the conservative, stagnant Council.

One of the most powerful Jedi around at the time of The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon had the respect of his peers, but was considered too much of a free thinker to be a political animal. He valued living in the moment rather than the past, and rejected institutionalised ideas and traditions. In many ways, he was the Jedi equivalent of the decorated loose cannon cop that gets the job done… now tell me you don’t want to watch a film that fills in the back story of the Jedi Master equivalent of John McClane?

There are some that argue that a Jedi Master who displays such a staggering lack of foresight in demanding that the young Anakin Skywalker be trained as a Jedi doesn’t deserve his story being expanded upon.

That’s hardly fair, though: Qui-Gon Jinn sought to refine and harness Anakin’s staggering potential and determine whether he was indeed the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy - the one who would ‘bring balance to the Force’.

It was the Jedi Council that panicked about young Skywalker and initially refused permission for his training and then changed their minds; and it was Obi-Wan Kenobi who took on that responsibility and who arguably failed as Anakin’s mentor.

By then Qui-Gon Jinn, radical sensei and iconoclast samurai, was long gone.