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Star Wars Rebels, a one-hour charcterised commander already in prolongation during Lucasfilm, is scheduled to premiere in Fall 2014 on a Disney Channel before a new code leaps to Disney XD for a ongoing series, according to Lucasfilm sources.

The array will cave element from a 19 years that follow Episode III: Revenge of a Sith and convey a Episode IV: A New Hope. In other words, regulating a life of a Skywalker twins as a measure, a array will be active in a story years that come after their subdivision as newborns and before their (unwitting) reunion on a jail spin of a Death Star.

No word on either a uncover will underline Darth Vader (who would be in a Empire’s energy converging years and earning his galactic infamy) or even lift in a impression like Han Solo, a raider and disbeliever who becomes an doubtful leisure warrior when he opts to mount with his friends opposite vast odds. The pretension of a uncover is vaguely phrased in a approach that any insurgent — even a Boba Fett or Ahsoka Tano competence validate as a “title character” by trait of their outsider’s path.

The array has 3 executive producers: Dave Filoni, a indicate male on The Clone Wars charcterised array that launched in 2008; screenwriter and writer Simon Kinberg, who has a aptitude for tonal rewiring and energizing informed brands with new corner (e.g.: X-Men: First Class, Sherlock Holmes); and Greg Weisman, whose credits embody well-regarded work on Young Justice and The Spectacular Spider-Man.

A press recover that was being readied Monday morning enclosed a quote from Kathy Kennedy, a hand-picked inheritor of George Lucas as Lucasfilm boss as good as an chosen writer (Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List) given a 1980s. “I couldn’t be some-more vehement to try new corners of a Star Wars universe,” Kennedy settled in a release. “I think Star Wars Rebels will constraint a look, feel, and fun that both kids and their relatives adore about Star Wars.”

Kennedy has brought a new vitality to Lucasfilm in-house enlightenment that (like Ben Kenobi in a desert) seemed to forget some of it’s insurgent birthright and gamechanger ways. Kennedy repelled some observers when she jettisoned a well-underway Lucasfilm beginning to re-release a prequel trilogy in 3-D. The preference was not inexpensive though authorised her to spin all engines toward a common horizon: new Star Wars stories that incorporate a characters many informed to fans that sat down in a dim in those Jedi summers between 1977-1983. The centerpiece of a new concentration is the third trilogy, with a initial installment approaching in 2015 or 2016 and destined by J.J. Abrams.

The new try will put substantial vigour on a artistic team. The animation routine is not a quick one, nonetheless it it was not transparent Monday how prolonged Filoni and his colleagues have been operative on a new show. For a fans who see Kennedy’s priorities as a new wish for a Jedi star as entertainment, a news of Star Wars Rebels might move to mind an sell from 1977 space epic with a now-relevant pun: The Rebellion could unequivocally use a good pilot… 

UPDATE: A video with Filoni only went live on StarWars.com and YouTube. Here it is…

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