Star Wars Rebels (Disney XD)

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Production has begun on Star Wars Rebels, an exciting, all-new animated television series based on one of the greatest entertainment franchises of all time. Scheduled to premiere in fall 2014 as a one-hour special telecast on Disney Channel, it will be followed by a series on Disney XD channels around the world.

Leading the development of the series is a creative team of exceptional talent. Screenwriter/producer Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class, Sherlock Holmes, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) is an executive producer on Star Wars Rebels and will write the premiere episode. He is joined by Dave Filoni as executive producer, who served as supervising director of the Emmy nominated Star Wars: The Clone Wars since 2008. Executive producer Greg Weisman brings with him a wealth of animation experience with credits such as Young Justice, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Gargoyles.

Gary Marsh, president and chief creative officer, Disney Channels Worldwide, said, "The entire team at Lucasfilm has provided extraordinary creativity and innovation for over three decades, and we're thrilled to be bringing the expansive and imaginative world of Star Wars to Disney XD's viewers."

"I couldn't be more excited to explore new corners of the Star Wars universe," said Kathleen Kennedy, president, Lucasfilm. "I think Star Wars Rebels will capture the look, feel and fun that both kids and their parents love about Star Wars."

The action-filled series is set between the events of Episode III and IV -- an era spanning almost two decades never-before explored on-screen. Star Wars Rebels takes place in a time where the Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy and hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking shape. Details about the show are a closely guarded secret at this point.

Star Wars Rebels will be produced by Lucasfilm Animation, featuring many of the key talents that made Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Fans attending Star Wars Celebration Europe will be the first to get an exclusive look at the new series. Casting will be announced at a later date. More information about this developing project will be found on StarWars.com and on Facebook at facebook.com/starwarsrebels.

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Wish it wasn't called Rebels, but otherwise yes sir. Also I want that office. Or more accurately the stuff that's IN that office.

If they can really make it look like a moving McQuarrie painting, each episode could be half an hour of the emperor picking his nose and it would still be the best thing ever.

Finally something that takes place after Episode 3. I'm interested.

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Originally Posted by EvilMog

Finally something that takes place after Episode 3. I'm interested.

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Exactly. I was both surprised and excited by that simply fact.

I hope they don't fall into the same trap the EU books did and focus on Han, Luke, Chewie and Leia as the only people who can still have adventures as the Galaxy Police. Their stories are done, get some new shit going.

Considering the Rebels haven't met Han, Chewie, or Luke yet at this time, I think you're safe.

Oh, I misread this as being after VI somehow. Whoops.

I want to see if Disney has the balls to give Jar Jar even a cameo in the first episode.

Hoping for Alderaanian nobility squabbling/plotting. Might as well get some use out of that setting before it goes kaboom.

They repurposed the story of 1313 and it now has Jar Jar starring as a rough and tough bounty hunter.

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Hoping for Alderaanian nobility squabbling/plotting. Might as well get some use out of that setting before it goes kaboom.

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That was one of the best parts of The Old Republic.

Yeah, it really was.

they should just re-air 'Droids'

No.

Hope it's hand-drawn, or at least partially hand-drawn.

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Executive producer Greg Weisman brings with him a wealth of animation experience with credits such as Young Justice, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Gargoyles.

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Well if the pattern holds, it's going to be great, then be inexplicably thrown into a prolonged schedule-dicking purgatory in its second season, then unceremoniously canceled for a vastly inferior alternative.

I'm getting excited for this, especially this news:

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McQuarrie's designed were adapted when realised on the big screen, but Filoni is proceeding as if McQuarrie was actually depicting a world set slightly before A New Hope. So everything in Rebels, from the TIE fighters to the proportions of the Stormtroopers, will adhere more closely to the style of McQuarrie's work. Filoni also name-checked the celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki as an influence in the design of characters and the way body proportions are "pushed" slightly out of scale.

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Lets hope Disney doesn't kill it too soon like Tron and Avengers.

Bunch of new characters revealed at toy show

I like the McQuarrie Chewie alien. Barbie Fett is a dumb idea, but hopefully the writers will do something worthwhile with her. Don't really like that there's a Jedi in the cast, even if he's ostensibly forsaken the Jedi ways for his own survival, but I guess the idea of a Star Wars story that focuses entirely on Rebel soldiers and/or Han-style fringe heroes with no Jedi at all is just too far outside the box. But come on, the question at this point is, who didn't survive Order 66?

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Who didn't survive Order 66?

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Well, the galaxy is a big fuckin place. And Jedi are whackjobs who like to head off into the bush to find enlightenment and shit. You know for a fact that 2 survived based on the original trilogy alone. It's not that shocking that a few more might be alive after the order.

Oh, and here are the character intro videos they've released so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulIPyDqppfM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXuFi2vH_PQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-YfJetY18

This one video per post limit is really dumb btw.

Rebel scum, street rat... I don't buuuuuy thaaaaaaat

lol he is totally Aladdin

Is Kanan Better Than Ezra?

It was goooooooood

Thanks Advocate

Not gonna lie, getting a serious Poochie vibe from Sabine.

And finally...



Now that we've seen the whole team... I like it, even if there is the potential for annoyance with Sabine. (People seem to have faith in Filoni and Weissman based on their track record with female characters, so fingers crossed she comes off better in the actual show.) Odd how the videos for Kanan and Hera seem to describe both of them as the leader, though. :P

I just realized... Freddie Prinze Jr. looks about the right age (even if he really isn't) to play Kanan in the new movies, if they end up having him survive the war...

What this isn't:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBM2ZfncoU

Made by ONE GUY. Just one.

All of these names (Ezra, Kanan, Sabine, Hera) are super overt in kind of a rad way. I'd have been stoked to compare the references to the characters if this were on in my day. My nephews will be googling this stuff furiously. Plus, naming someone "Kanan," however overt it is, is still more subtle than I-III's hamfisted Judeo-Christian stuff (I GOT DIS BABBY WITOUT NO FUCKIN DO U GET IT)

Do like!

First trailer.

Wow, they're all super cas about the murdering. I'm not against action violence for kids or anything, but, I'd still like the characters to hold life in...some regard.

Thanks for posting that, Geo. I missed it the other night live and forgot to find it online.

edit: I like the guy based on the McQuarrie Chewbacca design.

edit2: The blue haired kid is more annoying than the Skywalker family. Even in the trailer I was rooting for the TIE Fighter to vaporize him.

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Wow, they're all super cas about the murdering. I'm not against action violence for kids or anything, but, I'd still like the characters to hold life in...some regard.

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Rebels was always a euphemism for terrorists.

That's why we must put down the rebellion.

I don't care about anything else in the show, I don't care if the kid is annoying and the problems raised by a surviving Jedi. All I care about is that I'm seeing Star Destroyers and Tie Fighters again. The rest will work itself out.

Who is that kid?
Who are those guys?
Who is that kid?
Who are you?

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I don't care about anything else in the show, I don't care if the kid is annoying and the problems raised by a surviving Jedi. All I care about is that I'm seeing Star Destroyers and Tie Fighters again. The rest will work itself out.

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Yeah that has raised my interest for sure. I'm so goddamn tired of anything prequel/clone wars related.

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Originally Posted by GohanX

That's why we must put down the rebellion.

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Indeed

I watched the Spark of Rebellion premiere episode this past Friday and enjoyed it, I'll probably see more of the series.

They're going to re-air it on October 26 on ABC with James Earl Jones reprising his role as Vader.

I thought he was dead.

Jones or Vader? If it's the latter, this show takes place between Episodes III and IV.

So far the show has been pretty good. I've enjoyed both episodes I've seen. Awesome seeing Star Destroyers and Tie Fighters again, and hearing the real sound track was great too.

Anyone else enjoying this? The last few episodes in particular have been great, I think. Last week's Lando episode was a blast.

Haven't seen this week's episode yet, hopefully they continue to hit their stride with it.

I'd like to check this out but I don't get the channel it airs on. Stupid Disney X or whatever the fuck it's on.

You should be angrier you're missin' Gravity Falls!

Wander Over Yonder's pretty great, too!

Gravity Falls is the best.

The. Best.

My friend from High School is friends with Alex Hirsch and I flip out whenever he jumps into a conversation we have on facebook.

I dunno about this Star Wars business but I'll vouch for some Gravity Falls.

YOU KNOW we've got a TNL'er on Steven Universe?

huh, guess she did live.

Rex, too.

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huh, guess she did live.

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Uh... yeah. She was in the finale. Turned out she's "Fulcrum," like everyone suspected.

I watched the last few episodes of season one and then the new trailer, definitely excited for season two.

Never watched Clone Wars although saw enough of the promotional material to recognize the character in question, and then read up on her story. Pretty interesting.

I liked her in clone wars from what I saw. But I've only watched the first few episodes.

Watched all of the cartoon clone wars. God, I wish everything could have been like the cartoon clone wars.

Part of what made the original Clone Wars cartoon great was its brevity. I wish the follow up series wasn't, well, a standard series. Could use some heavy editing to make it watchable.

So I don't know if anyone else has continued to follow this but the second season just ended with a HUGE bang. I kind of wish I'd seen it in a theater actually.

It ended? Guess it's time to marathon the season here soon.

The season ended. They're going to do at least one more. (Rumor has it that's it, and then they're going to move on to a new show, set between movies VI and VII. Filoni does say he's got the rest of the run plotted out now, so who knows.)

I finally got to see the season finale last night, and it was terrific. I like that they brought back Maul as someone who hates EVERYONE, and I liked the way they teased Ezra's future by him opening the Sith holocron. The best part was the Ahsuka/Vader duel, which ties so nicely into Clone Wars. I love Vader, and the fact that James Earl Jones is voicing him in the series makes me all nerd-giddy. The lightsaber duel was great, and it really opened some new directions for the characters (Is Ahsuka dead? Where did Maul go? Will Kanan ever see again. I got a bit of an ESB vibe from how low things ended for the heroes. Awesome stuff.

Trailer for season 3.



Oh man.

Wedge!

Thrawn!

I'm more excited for this than I am Episode VIII.

I'm happy Thrawn is being integrated into the new canon, but I'm a little worried using him as the big bad for a season of a kids' show where the good guys have to win every week won't do him justice. If a show like this is gonna use a character of his stature, he should be handled they way they have Vader, not the Grand Inquisitor.

He's probably not going to make an appearance until halfway into the season, and he'll be in the shadows as the rebels face defeats, causing them to have to mount a raid to get those new Ywings they show in the trailer.

They still have to deal with Maul and Ezra, and Sabine with the Mandalorians.

I just hope they end his run by being given command of a fleet and told to go conquer some portion of the outer rim by the Emperor, as punishment for failing to stop the Rebellion or something. I know it's not canon anymore but I just want Heir to the Empire to be the real continuation of Jedi for a little while longer.

I keep seeing so much rad stuff about this show, I think I only watched S1, I need to fix that.

Yeah. Season 2 is much better, especially the finale.

I was interested before it came out, then everything was garbage, then I started hearing good things again here and there. Maybe I'll try to watch it while playing Monster Hunter.

Maybe Thrawn ends up being Snoke.

Only if he bleached his skin.

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Only if he bleached his skin.

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Eh, until we actually see Snoke in the flesh, I'm pretty convinced that hologram in TFA was a Wizard of Oz, but I don't think Thrawn is the man behind the curtain. The First Order's MO so far is brute force, not subtle tactical brilliance.

Season 3 started tonight. Or has started. I just watched it online. Anyway, it's not the season 2 finale but it was a solid start.

For anyone who cares this is ending next Monday with a 3 episode movie of sorts. It was never as good as Clone Wars for me but it has it's own thing going on, and I'm going to be sad to see it go.

It's funny, I didn't think I cared all that much about these characters, and then Kanan's death hit me like a ton of bricks.

Hah, ya right in the feels.

Didn't like this one that much...

Well, the ending was...different. Seems like they are setting up a new series with how it ended. Could be interesting if they do go that route.

The finale was kinda meh after the much-more-affecting death of Kanan episode. Glad they wrote out Ezra and Thrawn in a way that explains their absence during the OT without killing them off and leaves the door open for their future return, though. Also glad that if they *just had to* introduce time travel into Star Wars, at least they destroyed the thing that made it possible within the same story. But of course there are probably who knows how many more time travel temples waiting to be found on other obscure planets. :\ And on a downer note... Hera and Kanan's kid has to be either dead or one of Kylo's "Knights of Ren" underlings by the time of TFA, right? The latter is fitting, considering his namesake - yes, Filoni confirmed it's spelled Jacen.