Disney+ has released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Wars series, Ahsokastarring Rosario Dawson.
Star Wars Celebration Day kicked off with the release of an extended teaser for Ahsoka, the latest interconnected series in the Star Wars franchise debuting on Disney+ this summer. Written by Dave Filoni, the series stars Rosario Dawson in the title role.
Ahsoka, Anakin Skywalker’s Jedi Padawan, was first introduced as a supporting character in the 2008 animated film Star Wars: the Clone Wars and subsequent animated series. The character returned in the sequel series Star Wars Rebels (2014-2018) as a member of the Rebel Alliance, operating under the codename Fulcrum, and made numerous other cameo appearances in the vast Star Wars universe. Dawson’s live-action version debuted in The Mandalorian‘s second season. We saw Ahsoka for the last time inside Boba Fett’s book, when she passed a gift of chainmail to Grogu after warning Mando/Din Djarin that his presence would be a distraction from Grogu’s Jedi training. We all know how that turned out: Din and Grogu got back together and went on to share even more adventures The Mandalorian S3, which will be finalized later this month.
The official starting point for Ahsoka is short and sweet: “Set after the fall of the empire, Ahsoka follows former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a fragile galaxy. as Hera Syndulla, a former Rebellion pilot; Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, a former con artist and thief trained as a Jedi; and Ray Stevenson as Baylan.
Genevieve O’Reilly and Diana Lee Inosanto reprise their roles as Mon Mothma and Morgan Elsbeth, respectively, while David Tennant reprises the voice of Huyang, a lightsaber-crafting droid who appeared in The Clone Wars. Hayden Christensen returns as Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka’s former Jedi mentor who fell to the dark side of the Force and became Darth Vader. We’ll also likely get more of Ahsoka’s backstory as Savannah Steyn will be playing a younger version of the character. And while we know we’ll see General Thrawn – an Imperial military leader who leads the remnants of the scattered Galactic Empire in a campaign against the New Republic in a trilogy of novels and Star Wars Rebels– we don’t know yet who will play him.
This is just an extended teaser, so we don’t get much information about the plot. The teaser begins with an ominous voiceover warning that “something is coming.” Whatever it is, it’s “something dark” and our cloaked heroine can sense it. “This is a new beginning,” Baylan says in another ominous voiceover. War for some. For others, power.” For Ahsoka, it starts with reuniting with Sabine, but the reunion seems a bit tense considering how much “things have changed”. Ahsoka begins to hear whispers about Thrawn returning “as heir to the realm”. means, as always, preparing for the worst, even if there are very few Jedi left.
Ahsoka will debut on Disney+ in August 2023.
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