Just when you thought the casting reports for season two of The Mandalorian couldn't get any bigger, we've now learned of another fan favourite from Star Wars animation who will be making the jump to live action. /Film is reporting that Katee Sackhoff will be reprising her role as Bo-Katan, who she voiced on the animated series' Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels in the upcoming season. Her scenes were reportedly shot in February, with post-production on the season now ongoing. Neither Lucasfilm nor Saskhoff's representatives have commented on this story.
The final season, which continues to be released weekly on Disney+, has provided fans with a jaw-dropping set of episodes. It is likely to bring us a fulfilling conclusion to a TV series and movie that kicked off over 10 years ago in August 2008. Although, its legacy could last for decades.
We covered reports last month that Ahsoka Tano may be making an appearance in Season 2 of The Mandalorian on Disney+, played by actor Rosario Dawson. Now there is a further rumor about this story.
According to a new, exclusive report from TheDirect.com, Disney's contract with actor Rosario Dawson spans multiple shows. This comes on the heels of reports from reputable sources like Variety and Slashfilm that Ms. Dawson will be debuting as the first live-action incarnation of the beloved animated character in the upcoming second season of Disney+'s smash hit series The Mandalorian.
According to our contributing insider Daniel Richtman, Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka Tano contract is reportedly a multi-show deal. For reference, this is a unique type of contract seen most often with MCU actors and actresses who have signed onto other film and show properties in the past. This is not a confirmation that Rosario Dawson's Ahsoka Tano will indeed appear in other Disney+ shows, rather, that Lucasfilm is potentially interested in having her character make future appearances in other shows, thus including this clause in the contract.
This suggests that Disney believes it is probable that the character of Ahsoka Tano may appear on other shows on the streaming network in addition to The Mandalorian. Currently, we are aware of two future officially announced series, one featuring Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and another following the adventures of Cassian Andor with Diego Luna reprising his role from the box office expectation crushing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
There are also rumors that Ahsoka may be getting her own series at some point, and Rosario Dawson certainly would be expected to fill that role if it is live-action. This further would explain the necessity for a multi-show option in her contract with Disney.
The character of Ahsoka Tano is an extremely intriguing one for the Star Wars franchise, because she has the ability to span multiple eras in the timeline. Thus far, we have seen her in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and series, which take place before Revenge of the Sith, as well as the Star Wars: Rebels series, which covers the length of the Original Trilogy. This means she easily could show up in both the Obi-Wan and Cassian shows, and a show of her own could parallel the events during and after the original 6 saga films. With a comeback happening currently in the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which was produced exclusively for Disney+, Ahsoka could be the character to potentially tie every original series together.
Finally, it's fascinating to hear more news about Rosario Dawson and her relationship with Disney trickle out, because there is an aura of uncertainty surrounding her status as Disney has yet to make a statement on ongoing litigation involving Ms. Dawson, who has been accused in a lawsuit of harassing and attacking a transman who used to work for her and her family. Stories like this one about her contract leaking may be evidence that Disney expects this case to be dismissed, but ultimately we may not have further information for some time.
Meanwhile, Star Wars fans can look forward to potentially seeing one of their favorite characters not only in the flesh, but in multiple Disney+ series.
Disney has released a preview clip from Friday's upcoming episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. In the clip, Ahsoka, Trace, and Rafa are held captive and tortured by the criminal Pykes. Before being hauled off to presumably be tortured, Trace talks to Ahsoka about her mother. You can watch the clip below!
On the same day Ahsoka Tano returned in animated form to our screens in the new episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we have learned that she'll soon be making her live action debut! /Film is reporting today that the character will appear in the upcoming second season of The Mandalorian, currently slated to debut on Disney+ in October 2020, and that she will be played by actress Rosario Dawson. The news has since been confirmed by Variety, though representatives for Lucasfilm and Dawson have not yet commented on it.
With the long awaited return of Star Wars: The Clone Wars finally here, fans everywhere are getting excited for the final twelve episodes. The new season, which will be released weekly on Disney+, marks a reunion of sorts for fans who loved the series during its initial six season run getting to go back to the characters and stories that were left unfinished when the show unexpectedly went off the air in 2013.
But it’s not just fans who are relishing the return to this exciting era of Star Wars, production on the seventh season brought back many of the original crew to finish the story they began. Among them is composer Kevin Kiner, who scored all 121 episodes of the original run as well as the theatrical film that kicked off the series in August 2008.
Hype has been building for Disney+ recently as we draw closer to its official launch! Unfortunately the new streaming service will only be available to those in the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand starting later this month. Those in the rest of the world will have to wait a bit longer, but thankfully not too much longer.
Filoni (left) and voice actor Ashley Eckstein dressed as Ahsoka in 2012 (right)
By: Dominic Jones
Fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars should savour the seventh season of the series, which hits Disney+ in February 2020. Supervising director Dave Filoni was interviewed by IGN during D23 Expo this past weekend, and they asked about if there was potential for the series after the seventh season. They also inquired about the potential for characters that were created for the series, specifically highlighting Ahsoka Tano, making the jump to live action in the future.
More MASSIVE news just out of D23! Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy took the stage at the Disney+ panel to announce the premiere date of the seventh season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars!
According to Kennedy, season seven will premiere on Disney+ in February of 2020, only a few months away! In addition, she also unveiled a new photo from the upcoming episodes showing Darth Maul (voiced by Sam Witwer) facing off against Ahsoka Tano (voiced by Ashley Eckstein).
While all eyes have been on Star Wars Celebration for big announcements about the future of the galaxy far, far away, Disney (somewhat) quietly had some announcements about how the saga will be represented on Disney+, the upcoming streaming service launching on November 12th.At a Disney+ event on April 11th, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy took the stage to reveal what Star Wars films and TV series will be available on the service at launch.
By: Dominic Jones
Ever since it was announced that Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming back, fans of the series have been clamoring for more details about the return of the series. Today, they got their wish as supervising director Dave Filoni, and cast members Dee Bradley Baker (the Clones), Ashley Eckstein (Ahsoka Tano), and Sam Witwer (Maul) took the stage at Star Wars Celebration Chicago to preview the new season. They showed three clips, and an amazing new trailer that brought the audience to their feet. You can see those clips and trailer below,
Lucasfilm and Reedpop have announced another round of guests who will be attending Star Wars Celebration this April in Chicago. One of the highlights of Lucasfilm's official fan convention is the
opportunity to meet and get autographs from the people who
helped create the galaxy far, far away. Six more names were added to the already lengthy list of guests today, with two stars from the films, one from the animated series', and three behind the scenes stars.
We are now just a little over a month from Star Wars Celebration Chicago kicking off! To help build excitement Lucasfilm has made a habit of giving us news about the convention consistently over the past several weeks. Today the newest episode of The Star Wars Show dropped on YouTube, and with it came some exhilarating announcements about Celebration Chicago!
We're now less than 65 days away from Star Wars Celebration
Chicago, Lucasfilm's official fan convention, taking place April
11th-15th at McCormmick Place. One of the highlights of the show is the
opportunity for fans to meet and get autographs from the people who
helped create the galaxy far, far away, and today Lucasfilm announced ten more guests, covering a wide range of Star Wars projects, who will be on hand in Chicago.
Star Wars Celebration is less than 100 days away, and now Lucasfilm is beginning to announce some of the guests who will be on hand at the convention to meet fans and sign autographs. Today, it was announced that six voice actors who have lent their voices to Star Wars characters will be on. The guests are Christopher Sean (Kazuda Xiono on Star Wars Resistance), Suzie McGrath (Tam on Resistance), Scott Lawrence (Yeager on Resistance), Janina Gavankar (Iden Versio in Star Wars: Battlefront II), James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi on Star Wars: The Clone Wars), and Matt Wood (General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars).
Star Wars gamers, rejoice! Obi-Wan Kenobi and the planet Geonosis have finally come to Star Wars Battlefront II! The Battle Of Geonosis update finally brought the the beloved Jedi General to the video game, along with the site of the first battle of the Clone Wars.
Electronic Arts has been slowly rolling out the latest Clone Wars era content that's been added to Star Wars Battlefront II. Earlier this month we saw the addition of General Grievous as a playable character, and today EA has released some new details about what fans can expect when Obi-Wan Kenobi is added to the game on November 28th (a week from today). The character will be voiced by James Arnold Taylor, who previously voiced prequel era Obi-Wan on the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.
Back at EA Play this summer, Electronic Arts announced that more content from the clone wars era would be added to the game later in the year. This included the planet Geonosis, as well as the characters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, and General Grievous. Now, as we approach the release of the new content, EA has announced that voice actors from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars will reprise their roles in the video game.
Lucasfilm animation veteran Dave Filoni has revealed that he has a different role on the next animated series, Star Wars Resistance (debuting this fall on Disney XD), than he has on previous Star Wars series' he's worked on. Filoni, who supervising director on both Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, revealed in a new interview with IGN that he is not involved in the "day-to-day" work of the series due to his other responsibilities at Lucasfilm.
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