The new array will pull visible impulse from Ralph McQuarrie Concept Art
CREDIT: Lucasfilm Animation

The subsequent Star Wars charcterised array is strictly patrician Star Wars: Rebels. The series, announced Monday morning in a press release, will take place surprisingly in a epoch of time between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of a Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. This era, between a strange trilogy and a prequel trilogy, is famous to fans by several names, including Dark Times, when a Empire was reaching a height, and a continued inform of a Jedi by Darth Vader and Darth Sidious scorched a galaxy.

The array will atmosphere on Disney XD commencement in Fall 2014, and has utterly a animation extraction using it: Dave Filoni, of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Greg Weisman, many recently of Young Justice, and famous for his groundbreaking Gargoyles (and whose resumé is distant too prolonged to form out here). Filoni posted his “first-ever sketch of a TIE-Fighter” on amicable media a integrate of weeks ago. The span will also have Simon Kinberg, formerly announced as operative with Lucasfilm and Disney on stand-alone facilities of a film franchise, to share in Executive Producer duties, with Kinberg also essay a special hour-long premiere part (further episodes of a TV array will be a sincerely customary half-hour).

Disney strictly describes Star Wars: Rebels as an “action-filled array in a time where a Empire is securing a hold on a star and sport down a final of a Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion opposite a Empire is holding shape.” The time-frame, about 19 years, has been featured in a Dark Horse Comics Dark Times and Purge series, as good as in a multimedia video game/comic book/novel authorization Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, yet has never been commited to a “official” criterion of film and animation.

Gary Marsh, boss and arch artistic officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, said, “The whole group during Lucasfilm has supposing unusual creativity and creation for over 3 decades, and we’re anxious to be bringing a expanded and talented star of Star Wars to Disney XD’s viewers.”

“I couldn’t be some-more vehement to try new corners of a Star Wars universe,” pronounced Kathleen Kennedy, president, Lucasfilm. “I consider Star Wars Rebels will constraint a look, feel and fun that both kids and their relatives adore about Star Wars.”

No casting or additional writers were announced yet, yet fans who attend Star Wars: Celebration Europe in Jul 2013 will get a initial demeanour during a series. Killian Plunkett, pattern lead on The Clone Wars, Joel Aron, CG Supervisor from a array are among a transfers to Rebels.

The epoch does give some engaging casting possibilites to fans. Sam Witwer, who played “Son” in a rarely regarded “Mortis Trilogy” of episodes on The Clone Wars and after returned to voice Darth Maul, progressing uttered a impression of Starkiller, Darth Vader’s tip neophyte who helped him lift out a Purge during this epoch in The Force Unleashed; that impression could positively seem in this series, if it takes place closer to Episode IV than Episode III (Leia, innate in a shutting moments of Episode III, is about 15 or 16 in that story, and was uttered by Cat Taber, who also uttered her mother, Padmé on The Clone Wars, another probable returnee).

Ahsoka Tano, uttered by Ashley Eckstein , further has a intensity to appear. Having left a Jedi Order in what incited out to be a array culmination of The Clone Wars, it is rarely expected Tano transient a predestine of a Jedi when Order 66 was activated and a clones incited opposite them. A hermit-ed Obi-Wan Kenobi, secreted divided on Tattooine examination over immature Luke Skywalker is another possibility, and James Arnold Taylor has told Newsarama (amongst many others) that he’ll always be adult to play a impression again.

In a video compelling a array on StarWars.com, Filoni pronounced it’s “thrilling” to work in a epoch he grew adult with. He also reliable that a array will be CG, like The Clone Wars. Filoni also says a demeanour will be somewhere between a Ralph McQuarrie judgment art for a strange film and what was commited to shade when a trilogy hit.