Animated Megastar Wars sequence Stories of the Jedi was once unveiled Saturday throughout Megastar Wars Birthday party Anaheim. The shorts will disclose up to now unseen previous adventures of Ahsoka Tano and Depend Dooku, who’ll get 3 episodes each and every.
The six episode-series is scheduled to hit Disney Plus q4. Display writer Dave Filoni printed that he wrote the episodes whilst flying backward and forward to shoot live-action Megastar Wars sequence The Mandalorian.
Dooku’s episodes will characteristic his apprentice Qui-Gon Jinn as a tender guy. We up to now noticed Qui-Gon as a seasoned Jedi in The Phantom Risk, the primary film within the prequel trilogy, the place he was once performed by means of Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson will go back to the function in Stories of the Jedi, and the actor’s son Michael will voice the more youthful model of the nature.
Stories of the Jedi will disclose Ahsoka Tano’s earliest days.
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Attendees had been handled to an episode — the ominously titled Existence and Demise — which printed Ahsoka’s delivery and earliest days together with her circle of relatives. The 15-minute episode was once enticing and intense, and appeared impressed by means of the tone and pacing of anime.
Ahsoka’s mother is voiced by means of Janina Gavankar, identified to Megastar Wars fanatics as Iden Versio within the 2017 online game Battlefront 2.
The episode earned a status ovation from the target audience at Birthday party Anaheim, however Filoni warned that one of the crucial ultimate shorts gets darkish.
“As great as that one is, there will have to be will have to stability within the Power,” Filoni stated, noting that the Dooku episodes shall be intense — suitable, since he is destined to fall to the Darkish Facet and turn into Darth Sidious’ apprentice. An older Dooku is the villainous Sith Lord observed in Assault of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, the second one and 3rd films within the prequel trilogy.
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Ahsoka made her animated debut as Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan in 2008’s The Clone Wars (which was set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith) and played a pivotal role in the seven-season series that followed. She appeared again in followu-p show Rebels, and was voiced by Ashley Eckstein in both. Eckstein will presumably return to the role in Tales of the Jedi.
Rosario Dawson took on the role when an older Ahsoka made her live-action debut in The Mandalorian season 2, showed up in The Book of Boba Fett earlier this year and is getting her own Disney Plus series in 2023.
