Star Wars: 14 Crazy Rumours Lucasfilm Started About The Empire Strikes Back In 1980

13. Obi-Wan Will Return In Some Weird Form

Although he'd been killed in Star Wars, fans already knew Obi-Wan wasn't gone for good - after all, he helped guide Luke through the Battle of Yavin as a detached voice.

Getting ahead of speculation, Miller suggested (but didn't confirm) Alec Guinness' return, albeit while managing to keep the method of it a mystery:

Take Obi Wan Kenobi, for instance. Did he die or merely vanish in Star Wars? A good many people claim to be sure that Alec Guinness will appear in Empire as Obi Wan; they say, variously, that:- Only his disembodied voice will be there.- He will appear in flashbacks.- He appears as an ephemeral shape that one can faintly see through. He dies yet again and reappears in an even more transparent form.

I don't know about you, but that last one would be a really cool twist on the Force Ghost. Rian Johnson, are you listening?