The subsequent Star Wars installment won’t strike theaters until 2015, though a new charcterised radio array is headed to a tiny shade subsequent year.

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Disney has greenlighted Star Wars Rebels, that will launch in tumble 2014 as a one-hour special on Disney Channel before debuting as a bone-fide TV array on Disney XD, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Production has already begun.

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Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class, Sherlock Holmes) serves as executive writer and will write a premiere episode. Dave Filoni, who was supervising executive on Star Wars: The Clone Wars (which ran from 2008-13 on Cartoon Network), and Greg Weisman (The Spectacular Spider-Man, Young Justice) will also executive produce. Casting will be announced during a after date.

Star Wars Rebels takes place between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of a Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, that spans about dual decades. The charcterised array is set “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.” (Lucasfilm behind charcterised effort Star Wars Detours from Seth Green, that would have taken place between Episode III and Episode IV.)

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“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,” pronounced Gary Marsh, president and arch artistic officer of Disney Channels Worldwide.

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

The news of Star Wars Rebels comes dual months after Lucasfilm announced — Disney acquired a company for $4.05 billion in Oct — that it would not be bringing back Star Wars: The Clone Wars after a fifth deteriorate on Cartoon Network, instead hinting that it was posterior “a new instruction in charcterised programming.” At a time, Lucasfilm pronounced it was exploring a new Star Wars series that would take place “in a time duration formerly inexperienced in Star Wars films and radio programming.”

During a discussion call during a time of Lucasfilm’s sale, Disney CEO Robert Iger discussed a intensity for Star Wars animated spinoffs to play on Disney-owned channels, generally Disney XD (the network carries advertising).

Star Wars Rebels is constructed by Lucasfilm Animation. Attendees during a Star Wars Celebration Europe eventuality will be a initial to see footage of a show.

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