The new Star Wars show picks up with the same mission teased at the end of the animated series.
All that is about to change onAhsoka.
“And it’s time to bring him home.”
‘Star Wars: Rebels’.Lucasfilm
We askedRebelsandAhsokashowrunnerDave Filoniexactly that when he andJon Favreaustopped byEW’sDagobah Dispatchpodcast.
“That’s an interesting question,” Filoni replied.
Definitely all signs are indicating that there’s a continuation."
Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) in ‘Ahsoka’.Lucasfilm Ltd.
There’s just the story that it is, and I was telling it in one medium."
He continued, “Rebelsis a different style thanClone Wars.
Even visually, that changed the way I could execute certain things inRebels.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla on ‘Ahsoka’.Lucasfilm Ltd.
The story kind of evolved since I worked onRebels.
“With the head tails and the makeup, what does that look like?”
“Can a performer bring that to life in a way that is meaningful?”
Rosario Dawson on ‘Ahsoka’.Lucasfilm Ltd.
It took seeing Ahsoka in human form right in front of him to assuage his concerns.
“I was very fortunate,” he recalls.
I was like, you know, this is going to work.
It really kind of was as simple as that.”
Filoni also credits some sage advice from the president of Lucasfilm for calming his nerves about the transition.
I said, ‘How do you know when it’s the right person?’
And she just looked at me and said, ‘Dave, you just know.’
And she was right.
Now if we can just figure out a way to bringKanan Jarrusback from the dead.
Force ghost action, anyone?
