And here's our replacement for Clone Wars. Coming to Disney XD in fall 2014. Bridges the gap between Eps 3 and 4. Looks...very cool. Conceptually.
Bit more detail:
Originally Posted by Entertainment Weekly:
Star Wars Rebels, a one-hour animated pilot already in production at Lucasfilm, is scheduled to premiere in Fall 2014 on the Disney Channel before the new brand leaps to Disney XD for the ongoing series, according to Lucasfilm sources.
The series will mine material from the 19 years that follow Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and precede the Episode IV: A New Hope. In other words, using the life of the Skywalker twins as a measure, the series will be active in the story years that come after their separation as newborns and before their (unwitting) reunion on the prison level of the Death Star.
No word on whether the show will feature Darth Vader (who would be in the Empire’s power consolidation years and earning his reputation) or even pull in a character like Han Solo, the smuggler and cynic who becomes an unlikely freedom fighter when he opts to stand with his friends against cosmic odds. The title of the show is vaguely phrased in a way that any rebel — even a Boba Fett or Ahsoka Tano might qualify as a title character merely by walking an outsider’s path.
The series has three executive producers: Dave Filoni, the point man on The Clone Wars animated series that launched in 2008; screenwriter and producer Simon Kinberg, who has a flair for tonal rewiring and energizing familiar brands with new edge (e.g.: X-Men: First Class, Sherlock Holmes); and Greg Weisman, whose credits include well-regarded work on Young Justice and The Spectacular Spider-Man.
Just saw next Monday's. Really good. If the series was the OT this one was the equivalent of ep 5. Probably the furthest from kid's show it's been so far. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
Just saw next Monday's. Really good. If the series was the OT this one was the equivalent of ep 5. Probably the furthest from kid's show it's been so far.
Awesome. I saw three previews on EW's site, which were incredible.
It's a shame there's only 16 episodes this season but next season has as many as 32. I hope they're aired sooner rather than later. [Reply]
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Ahsoka Tano, Darth Vader, and Emperor Palpatine will all be appearing in the season 2 premiere. Ashley Eckstein and James Earl Jones will be reprising their roles as Ahsoka and Vader respectively, though it is believed that Ian McDiarmid will not be reprising his role as Palpatine (with speculation that Tim Curry, who played Palpatine in several episodes of The Clone Wars following the death of Ian Abercrombie, reprising the part).
Originally Posted by Sweet Daddy Williams:
I was really hoping Dooku would have killed Asoka. Would have given much more weight to the Invisible Hand decapitation.
She ended up being a better character than that, more than just a tool to perpetuate Anakin's fall. Her final arc on Clone Wars was a window into how and why the Jedi Order as a whole could fall, and (throwing away the reality that she didn't exist as a character when episode 3 was made...) the fact that she went into exile is what would have saved her. She was pretty badass by the end. I'd rather envision her continuing to grow on her own, partnering up with Asajj Ventriss, and having them still exist as a duo somewhere in the gray between Jedi and Sith in the time of episode 7.
It also wouldn't surprise me if she's Fulcrum, which people have speculated since even before her appearance on this show was made public. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
She ended up being a better character than that, more than just a tool to perpetuate Anakin's fall. Her final arc on Clone Wars was a window into how and why the Jedi Order as a whole could fall, and (throwing away the reality that she didn't exist as a character when episode 3 was made...) the fact that she went into exile is what would have saved her. She was pretty badass by the end. I'd rather envision her continuing to grow on her own, partnering up with Asajj Ventriss, and having them still exist as a duo somewhere in the gray between Jedi and Sith in the time of episode 7.
It also wouldn't surprise me if she's Fulcrum, which people have speculated since even before her appearance on this show was made public.
Although I think that since it's after Order 66 and he's supposed to be protecting Luke from a distance on Tatooine, he's probably staying out of the Rebel game.
