Qui-Gon Jinn was one of those characters from the Prequel Trilogy that very obviously had a lot to him, but failed to have much of that explored onscreen. Sure, everyone gathered that he was a bit of a rebel, but apart from training Obi-Wan and ushering in the demise of the Jedi by recruiting Anakin, there wasn't that much else to him.
Like other actors of that series, however, Liam Neeson managed to elevate Qui-Gon to cult status among Star Wars fans. In the intervening years between the prequel and sequel trilogies releasing, the character has been explored in various tie-in media, to the point where many Star Wars fans actually consider him to be one of the most important Jedi to have existed.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
