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.
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Didn't Palpatine tell Anakin in some roundabout way that he killed Plagueis, or am I completely off base?
And here is Darth Plagueis. Long face, I suppose the mask could conceal it...
Yes, there was a scene about it.
But since Plagueis supposedly discovered the secret to eternal life, maybe he's not really dead, and Palpatine was deceived. Everyone should read the Darth Plagueis novel, because IMO he's a far more interesting character than Palpatine.
And again, Serkis is playing a CGI character. Kylo Ren (masked man) is the apprentice. [Reply]
Well like I said, this along with Filoni's words make this very intriguing. Plagueis obviously learned the art from a former Sith master, so they could take that particular arc a dozen different directions an bring on a dozen new characters for the canon. Would be pretty frickin cool to see some of the highly regarded stories about ancient Sith and Jedi made canon.
Entirely too early to speculate, but perhaps a possible spinoff to Old Republic stories (and earlier) brewing? Could we get that lucky? [Reply]
