haha, this comic is going to be so weird indeed.. Soo the release of CW season 5 DVDbox is in october. I wonder if we will get new episodes as the bonus content with this release?
Star Wars Universe - Resurrection F
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Have you seen this? They took Lucas's original rough draft for Star Wars and made it into a comic. http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/trailer-star-wars-comic-reveals-old-luke-green-175850736.html
Weird.Ha ha ha, Lucas = Luke? This should be awesome.
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and here's the trailer for it.
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It was on the link I posted.
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There's a Kickstarter for a documentary on Peter Mayhew(Chewbacca)'s life and his upcoming knee surgery:
They only need 42,000$. Seems like it could be interesting. Don't have money myself currently, but if it's ever released on DVD/BD/Whatever I'll get it.
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Star Wars Rebels Teaser:
Not a lot to see, though. I wish they could've shown a person even if it was someone unimportant. I'm curious to see the style they'll be going for with people this time.
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Not a lot to see, though. I wish they could've shown a person even if it was someone unimportant. I'm curious to see the style they'll be going for with people this time.
your wish is granted!
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It's Force Unleashed the show
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It's Force Unleashed the show
There is probably no chance that Starkiller will be in this…since he appears more later, when the Death Star is being build (I mean to the end of it), not to mention he's part of the expanded universe.
To bad they cant put Kal Skirata in this...he is a big deal in the movies (there was a line in there that mentioned him...in the original trilogy)
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The crew of Ghost better have a droid, Jedi and a Bounty Hunter, maybe Lando in the early years.
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We're also getting a twenty-two episode final season of The Clone Wars next year as well; it was originally just going to be fraction of that but the crew apparently talked Disney into letting them actually finish it properly.
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@Jedi:
There is probably no chance that Starkiller will be in this…since he appears more later, when the Death Star is being build (I mean to the end of it), not to mention he's part of the expanded universe.
I'm fairly sure that during development it was said to be part of the movie canon. Might've changed since, though.
That said it is a few years too early for Starkiller.
your wish is granted!
Thanks. Looks a lot like Clone Wars. Which I'm glad about. Clone Wars looked nice, just a bit too blocky, which doesn't seem to be a problem here.
Having an Inquisitor is a great idea. We can get some lightsaber battles where we can actually wonder if the villain will die with him, since his future is blank, and the times when Vader does come in to fight will feel much cooler now. Just look how awesome it was when Sidious went to take out Maul and Opress. We can also watch this guy grow like we did with Ventress. This guy seems to be a Pau'an. I wonder if there'll be more than one Inquisitor like in the EU.
Rebelscum's NYCC Star Wars Rebels Panel Report Posted by Eric on October 14, 2013 at 08:25 AM CST | 0 Comments
Our man Rich Alot from Rebelscum.com was at the Star Wars Rebels panel at New York Comic Con, and he's just posted his big photo-heavy report from the event. Click here to check out Rich's report and enjoy the high-resolution pictures from the panel.If you just want the highlights, here's a quick rundown of the new information we learned from the panel:
- The main villain will be an Imperial Inquisitor wielding a new type of dual-bladed lightsaber. Darth Vader has assigned him to hunt down the remaining Jedi.
- The series will be set fourteen years after Revenge of the Sith, i.e. five years before A New Hope.
- There will be a storyline involving the
, where the Imperials will try to recruit the natives using propaganda posters.
- All stormtroopers are volunteers. There is no draft.
- None of the stormtroopers will be clones. This is because, according to George Lucas' notes, the clones proved too individualistic, whereas stormtrooper recruits will be more patriotic. Some of the clones still alive went on to train the stormtroopers, while others became disaffected with the new regime.
- New Imperial character and vehicle designs include:
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- No assets from The Clone Wars will be used because the animation style is too different.
- The show will feature some kind of Jedi presence.
- There may be appearances by characters from The Clone Wars.
- Although the crew has less lead time on Star Wars Rebels than they did on The Clone Wars, they are working faster because of the experience they gained on TCW.
- George Lucas is not involved in production of Rebels, although his older notes still influence the creative process.
- The series will progress in chronological order, following a core group of main Rebel characters.
- There will be major emphasis on the Imperial side of things too. Their development will occur alongside that of the heroes.
- The series will shift in tone in the fourth episode, although what this means was not made clear.
- The Empire and the Rebellion are not the only major forces in the series. There may be bounty hunters as well.
http://www.theforce.net/story/front/Rebelscums_NYCC_Star_Wars_Rebels_Panel_Report_154734.asp
14 years after ROTS. So Luke and Leia are teens. I think, of the two, Leia will be easier to bring in in a storyline. She's on Alderaan with Bail, who's important and unlike Luke she can be part of something going against the empire. I'd love to see both at some point, though. I mean, I find it hard to believe we won't Obi-Wan and Tatooine, so we can at least have a glance at Luke.
"If the Inquisitors are brought in, that means the Empire has reason to believe that Jedi are involved somehow. They are, but we are very cognizent of what happened with Order 66, and Luke's importance as the last of the Jedi."
Hidalgo couldn't answer a question about The Inquisitor and his possible relationship to Starkiller from The Force Unleashed. The Inquisitors are a part of lore that are being pulled into this story, though.
Clone troopers aged twice as fast as everyone else. Some of them have gone on to become trainers of Storm Troopers. "George provided all these notes about what happened after the Clone Wars, and we're designing the show with that in mind."
A fan asked if any characters from Star Wars the Clone Wars will show up on Rebels, and Hidalgo said he couldn't answer, "but given that there are a lot of people that worked on Clone Wars working on Rebels, that's definitely something to think about."
Hidalgo said there is a big focus on the Imperials in the show, and they'll be as developed alongside the heroes.
The Ghost is the final name of the ship, and it is named that "for a very specific reason," said Hidalgo.
Rebels will not operate on the one-year lead time that The Clone Wars did. He said that the biggest difference content wise between the two shows is that George Lucas is not directly doing the ideas for this series.
"It's not just black and white Rebels versus Empire" Hidalgo said in response to a question about bounty hunter presence.
Fans tried to pry for some more information about the Inquisitor(s), and Hidalgo only said "our heroes will find out that when they are more successful, they'll have to fight bigger bosses."
http://www.newsarama.com/19219-nycc-2013-star-wars-rebels-the-might-of-the-empire-panel-live.html
The ship is named Ghost for a specific reason. I'm guessing it's a Jedi. Maybe Ahsoka.
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Good info, it's definitely looking hopeful.
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Hm, so Michael Arndt no longer writing. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/michael-arndt-star-wars-episode-vii_n_4158684.html
L](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/michael-arndt-star-wars-episode-vii_n_4158684.html)et the speculations of why this happened and whether it's good or bad commence.
Oh, and to continue that thought, Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan are re-writing it
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just thought i put this here…
now we wait…
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late news flash: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/2013/11/19/r2-d2-is-in-star-wars-episode-7-and-hes-fan-made/
it just keeps getting better
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Marvel will be getting the comics starting 2015:
Now that Lucasfilm and Marvel are both under the Disney umbrella, the two will soon be working together in the world of comics. Marvel has announced that, starting in 2015, it will have exclusive rights to the Star Wars franchise for comics and graphic novels. This ends a long-running partnership between Lucas and Dark Horse, the comic publisher that's handled Star Wars since 1991 and is currently working on a book based on the film's original script. "Dark Horse Comics published exceptional Star Wars comics for over 20 years, and we will always be grateful for their enormous contributions to the mythos and the terrific partnership that we had," says Carol Roeder, director of Lucasfilm franchise publishing. No specific titles were revealed, but 2015 is just in time for the next wave of Star Wars films.
I dunno how I feel. It was certainly expected. But I was pretty happy with what we were getting.
I don't read many western comics, just Star Wars, Ninja Turtles, Sonic and Megaman, so I don't know how Marvel is these days. So I can't really say whether it's good or not.
I'm really happy with what IDW is doing with Ninja Turtles, so I'd have liked them doing Star Wars. But of course with Disney owning both Star Wars and Marvel it was obvious they'd get them.
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The latest news and rumors on the EU front:
http://archive.foolz.us/co/thread/49696942/
They're going to be deciding once and for all what is canon and what is not, rather than the multiple tiers of canon as it is now. That's probably wise, however I hope the rumor of actually discontinuing a lot of the movie and post movie era EU novels is false, that seems unnecessary.
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Don't see why the comics, novel, and EU in general can't just be its own thing.
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I personally don't care about an official movie/EU border. Much as I would like to see a faithful Thrawn on the big screen, I'm oerall cool with Disney using the EU as a repository of useable ideas and characters, like the comics are to Marvel movies. I mean, implementing known characters like Mara Jade instead of Original Female Jedi Warrior would garner automatic hype.
I don't really see why you need to apply a "THIS IS FALSE AND ALSO SHITTY" label to the EU though.
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Over excited bots aside, looks like Mark Hamill is getting into shape:
From Celebration Europe last summer:
And now from a reddit Q&A yesterday:
http://www.starwars-union.de/nachrichten/13637/Mark_Hamill_bringt_sich_offenbar_in_Form/
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vvul8/mark_hamill_here_in_an_ama_far_far_away/
Guy needs a new shirt :V
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well he is certainly doing wonders for himself
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Here is an interview about Rebels….no new information but it gives a little more of a hint into the direction of the series. http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/01/23/star-wars-rebels-interview/
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa
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A brand new character has been announced for Star Wars Rebels!
His name… Chopper!
Pictures:
Er.. sorry. Wrong picture.
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www.moviepilot.de/news/star-wars-rebels-interview-mit-produzent-dave-filoni-127542There's a video on the site where Filoni and his team talk about a bit.
He's apparently grumpy and does what he feels like, even if it includes ignoring orders. Filoni sums it up with "If R2 is your favorite dog, Chopper's a cat.
The site is in German, but the video is English. I believe the site got the exclusive first reveal for this, so I dunno if any English sites have it up yet.
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Uh oh, I can see a lot of "Get to the Choppa!" jokes coming.
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Being contrary and hateful is par for the course of astromechs; the entire reason they don't have voice boxes is because they're so verbally abusive and vulgar.
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Chopper looks cool, but I hope they make Whistler/Xeno and Mynock/Gate canon… those were some fun astromechs.
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Hm, what do you think of this rumor? http://www.scified.com/news/1505
Take with a grain of salt, but it would be nice to see some EU elements become real canon, since they're culling a lot of it.
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I'm not sure I believe it, but adding certain elements from the EU while changing parts of them wouldn't be anthing new. I'm all for it. It'd be cool to see Mara Jade or Thrawn and Pellaeon or Jacen and Jaina or Ben..
Anyway, Clone Wars season six will air in Germany starting on Feb. 15
TART: SATURDAY, 15 FEBRUARY AT 20.15 CLOCK, FOUR EPISODES FEATURE-LENGTH
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE AT SUPER RTL: SIXTH SEASON OF THE ANIMATED SERIES "STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS" GERMAN PREMIERE
The high-class CGI series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (USA 2012) is one of the strongest quote formats of Primetime at SUPER RTL. Fans of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker come thanks staged action-packed space battles, exciting political conflicts, and epic battles their money. From the 15th February can look forward to a very special premiere the audience. Every Saturday at 20.15 clock shows SUPER RTL, the sixth season for the first time on German television.
The captivating series offshoot of George Lucas' Star Wars universe plays between the movies "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" and "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith". It tells the story of the epic Clone Wars, which is illuminated in all its facets. The Jedi Order is desperately trying to defeat the Separatists under the cunning Dooku, to save the Galactic Republic. But Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano are often outnumbered, as the droid armies of the Separatists are cheap to replace and easy. Only through courage, cohesion and ingenuity, it can manage to end the war and to bring lasting peace to the galaxy. Master Yoda for a special mission to fulfill, as a devious enemy from the past could soon have a mystical weapon with tremendous strength. To prevent this must be Master Yoda embark on a long journey in which he will explain the disappearance of a fellow Jedi to reveal the secret of his hidden enemy.
Here are descriptions of all thirteen episodes:
! > Condition Unknown
Clone cadet Tup is suffering from a severe neurological disorder that causes the death of a Jedi master. Trying to find the motives for the assassination, Anakin escorts Tup back to Kamino for examination, but then they are attacked by the Separatists…Conspiracy
Clone cadet Tup is undergoing a medical examination in the sterile laboratories of Kamino to find the motives for his shocking attack on the Jedi master. For the examination to succeed, cadet Fives must enter the depth of Tup’s mind, where he finds a secret code manipulation in the cloning program of the Republic.Fight or Flight
Clone cadet Tup is transported back to Coruscant, where his body is to be examined by the chancellor’s personal physician. Cadet Fives is also investigating the matter and discovers that a modified code has been hidden in the minds of all the clones…Orders
Fives is still trying to find answers regarding the mysterious actions of clone cadet Tup. Hoping to personally speak with chancellor Palpatine, Fives finds himself suddenly accused of trying to murder the chancellor and decides to make a run for it.An Old Friend
While on a mercy mission to the planet Scipio, Padmé Amidala’s’ old flame, Rush Clovis, gets in touch with her asking for help. Having made a stand against the corruption on his planet, Clovis has now become the target of the bounty hunter Embo. Together with Padmé, he is now trying to leave his planet and get help…The Rise Of Clovis
Back on Coruscant, Clovis strikes a dubious deal to becomes the leader of his clan which is deeply mired in corruption. Anakin doesn’t trust Clovis, causing tensions in his relationship to Padmé.Crisis At The Heart
Having made a deal with Count Dooku, Clovis finds himself drawn into the war. Since it was him who brought the war to his home planet of Scipio, the Republic is now forced to intervene.The Disappeared (Part 1)
The peaceful world of Bardotta finds itself threatened by an ancient prophecy. Since now of all times its spiritual leaders have vanished, Bardotta’s people ask their representative in the senate for help. And Jar Jar Binks indeed manages to convince Jedi master Mace Windu that this matter is of grave importance…The Disappeared (Part 2)
For a dark prophecy to be fulfilled, a mysterious cult kidnapped Julia, Queen of the planet Bardotta. Now Jedi Master Mace Windu and the Senate Representative Jar Jar Binks need to make every effort to stop the cult. If they should not succeed, the cult could unleash an ominous power…The Lost One
Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas died under mysterious circumstances years ago. As a secret Jedi mission finds his lightsaber by accident, Master Yoda, Obi -Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker start to investigate the death of Sifo-Dyas again. So they would not get to the bottom of the Sith conspiracy, Darth Sidious order his subordinate Darth Tyranus to erase all the traces.Voices
Yoda is deeply confused when he hears the voice of his late friend, Qui -Gon Jinn in his head. For he knows that even a Jedi can not speak from the realm of the dead to the living. The Jedi Council is irritated by Yoda's behavior and wants to examine it in more detail. But with the help of Anakin Yoda can escape from the hospital and puts himself on the search for the source of the voice.Destiny
Guided by the Force, Yoda travels to the heart of the galaxy. There, on the planet where he finds the origin of the Force, he must face difficult trials. Only upon passing them will the Sages deem him worthy of learning the deepest mysteries of the Force….Sacrifice
On Moriband, the homeworld of the Sith, the time has come for Yoda to pass his final test. Only then will he learn the best-kept secret of his order, but first a most powerful enemy awaits…http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=98845903&postcount=541
Kind of crazy we're getting the episodes before everybody else.
We're also getting Episode VII a day before the US. US Release is 18 December 2015
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Damn, when will we get to see it in the US?
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As far as I know, there's isn't any information on when or how they'll be released anywhere else yet.
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Well, poop. I wonder why…broadcast rights issues I assume. It's weird to me that we've seen and heard so little up to this point, almost like it's being hidden.
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German commercial for season 6
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I'm not sure I believe it, but adding certain elements from the EU while changing parts of them wouldn't be anthing new. I'm all for it. It'd be cool to see Mara Jade or Thrawn and Pellaeon or Jacen and Jaina or Ben..
Anyway, Clone Wars season six will air in Germany starting on Feb. 15
Here are descriptions of all thirteen episodes:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=98845903&postcount=541
Kind of crazy we're getting the episodes before everybody else.
We're also getting Episode VII a day before the US. US Release is 18 December 2015
! i really hope that home world of the Sith thing is a mis-translation because i'm really getting pissed off at them changing the origin world of the Sith yet again. It was meant to be either Korriban or Dromund Kaas…....
! I'm glad they're finally releasing the episodes. I can' wait to see them. Though the idea of Jar Jar and Mace Windu together seems like a very odd yet intriguing storyline. - but hey, as long as we get some Mace Windu goodness, i dun really care. -
well, I'm sure someone will sub it right after they air on German Tv. It's not like CW has some outstanding voice acting, so german actors will do just fine
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I'm sure they will, but for those that can wait, I'm sure they will release it in English on DVD eventually.
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We have a voice actor confirmation for Rebels: Freddie Prinze Jr. will be voicing the character Kanan, who is described as a "cowboy Jedi"
Rebels takes place 14 years after the last of the movie prequels, 2005's_Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith_, when the evil Emperor enacted "Order 66" to wipe out all the Jedi in the galaxy, sending the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda into hiding.
Since then, Kanan has been on the down-low, too. He keeps his lightsaber under lock and key and brandishes a blaster instead to avoid the attention of the Empire, especially the Inquisitor (a Sith villain) and his Stormtroopers. But Kanan gets his Force-ful groove back with his crew on the spaceship The Ghost and fights back against the imperial menace.
"He's been forced to shove a massive part of his life under the bed, so to speak," Prinze says. "Is he living a lie? At a certain point, the lie kind of becomes the reality. And to suddenly be forced back into your Jedi ways, it'd be a bit of a challenge for him. And pretty awesome, too, when you can see what a Jedi can actually do."
Executive producer Dave Filoni describes Kanan as a "cowboy Jedi." And unlike the stoic knights of his order in the Star Wars mythos, his banter is as sharp as his blue lightsaber strokes.
There is some melancholy, too. Kanan lived through the attempted extinction of an entire culture when Order 66 came down during his formative years, and he's massively affected by it, says Prinze.
"He definitely has seen more than what a young man should see. And what he had to see was pretty much the worst thing you would have to witness."
Prinze probably would have accepted any role on Star Wars Rebels, be it a bounty hunter, Sith lord or even a TIE Fighter pilot, but "the Jedi is who you want to be," he says. "I never wanted to be C-3PO. That would suck to just be running from bad guys."In addition to voicing Kanan, Prinze is prepping his 4-year-old daughter Charlotte, one of two kids he has with actress wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, to watch the original Star Wars. That's "so she can know just how awesome a lightsaber is and she can know just how awesome her daddy is for the rest of his life.''
There's a video at the link where you can hear him and where they talk a bit about the character.
The voice is a pretty good choice and surprising. I never expected Prinze to do a voice here.
We also get a better look at how people will look in the show. To me it looks like a more rounded Clone Wars mixed in with Disney characters. I like it.
By the way, last September there was a rumor about who would be doing voices for the show and Freddie Prince Jr. was one of them:
THR/HeatVision has learned that David Oyelowo, Freddie Prinze Jr., Vanessa Marshall, Taylor Gray and Steven Jay Blum are in the process of being cast as the voice leads for the series, which will make its debut in fall 2014.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-rebels-david-oyelowo-634717
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Steve Blum <3 one of my favorite voice actors makes this all the more better
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Of course Steve Blum will be in it, he's in everything, lol.
well, cool, I like seeing all the concept art and storyboard.
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Clone Wars season six debut is March 7th. On Netflix.
http://io9.com/the-sixth-and-final-season-of-clone-wars-will-debut-on-1522059435
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Yay! No need to look for subs of german copies.
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First look at Ezra Bridger:
The Force will soon be strong with this one. Meet Ezra, a charismatic teenage con artist who is one of the main characters in the upcoming animated series Star Wars Rebels.
Premiering with a one-hour special this fall on the Disney Channel before moving to Disney XD as a weekly series, Rebels bridges the gap between the two Star Wars movie trilogies. Set in the Outer Rim territories in between Episodes III and IV — also known as 2005's Revenge of the Sith and 1977's A New Hope — the show follows the genesis of the rebellion that ultimately leads to the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia. Fourteen years after the massacre of most of the Jedi knights in Revenge of the Sith, the Galactic Empire has consolidated power and its despotic intentions are no longer a secret.
When we meet Ezra, he has little interest in becoming a revolutionary. The suave teen has been living on his own on the planet Lothal and is just starting to learn how to use his mysterious new powers. "To survive, instinctively every now and then when he's in a jam he uses the Force," exec producer Dave Filoni says in the exclusive preview video below. "He doesn't call it that. He doesn't know that's what he's doing. He thinks he's got some abilities that are a little strange every now and then, but they help him out. It's instinctive, it's reactionary."
As Darth Vader and Co. begin to expand their grip on the Outer Rim, Ezra will be drawn into the burgeoning rebel alliance. "With Ezra we see how a kid is reacting to this imperial rule," Filoni tells TV Guide Magazine. "That becomes a big question: What is imperial rule like? We've seen it in the movies with a big rebellion that ends up blowing up the Death Star, but do we just assume that when the Empire took over in Revenge of the Sith it was seen as a bad thing? I would challenge that. It wasn't this terrible thing that came in and was cruel to everyone all at once. It was slow to build its power base and spread out, and then we get to see the rebel alliance it affects, and the repercussions of that tyranny."
Ezra is played by Taylor Gray, who starred in the Nickelodeon series Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures. "I'm excited to voice the role of Ezra in Star Wars Rebels but I'm even more excited to be a part of the Star Wars legacy," Gray says. "I can't wait for fans new and existing to come together and see the next chapter in the most legendary tale known in the galaxy."
Filoni chose Gray for the role because his voice wasn't too contemporary. "I don't want to sound like I just went down to the local mall [to cast the role]," says Filoni, who also oversaw the previous Star Wars animated series, The Clone Wars. "There's a rawness to him that feels very authentic. Taylor really seems to be able to occupy the character in this time period of the Star Wars universe. He's a real kid who's out there in the galaxy."
For those hardcore Star Wars fans who might be groaning over such a young protagonist — and Filoni knows you're out there — have no fear, Ezra will be mentored by Kanan, a Jedi who survived the Emperor's purge and is part of the rebel movement. (Freddie Prinze Jr. voices the cowboy-like character.)
Check out this exclusive first look at a preview of the character. And tune in to Disney XD on Monday, Feb. 17 during Kickin' It (6/5c) and Lab Rats (6:30/5:30c) for the premiere of two new teaser trailers for Star Wars Rebels.
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Star-Wars-Rebels-Ezra-1077773.aspx
Once again, video at the link.
So, it looks like we can look forward to al the main characters being revealed now.
I like the design. Reminds me a bit of Aladdin. The clothes are reminiscent of the pilot overalls of the rebellion. And I really liked seeing his hair move around, after living with plastic haired Anakin in Clone Wars.
The idea of him using the Force without knowing what it is is nothing new, but it's something I always like.
As for the voice actor, I don't know anything about him and he doesn't have an English Wikipedia page, but here's a list of what he's been in from the Spanish page:
| 2011–2013 | Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures | Bucket | Protagonista, Serie de TV Nickelodeon |
| 2007 | Numb3rs | Jo Santiago | "One Hour" |
| 2007 | The Tenth Day | Danny | |
| 2007 | A Starchy World | Classroom Kid 4 | |
| 2007 | The Take | Javy De La Pena | |
| 2007 | Hawthorne | Carlos González | "No Guts, No Glory" |
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Yeah I thought of Aladdin too.
I predict many a Better Than Ezra jokes/puns
Also, I have a feeling that while this character might have some good development potential, I bet he will be kind of annoying at first.
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Looks like these legos give away a couple more characters http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/notyetamovie/news/?a=94551
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Zeb looks familiar…
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A new alien inspired by the original Chewbacca design?
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I'm thinking all the images of Chopper with his arms extended is also a tribute to that original Artoo design. Plus Kanan seems a lot like the Obi-Wan concept.
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Some Rebels toys show off some designs, such as Zeb and some previously previously unknown characters:
http://www.starwars-union.de/nachrichten/13719/Bilder_von_den_neuen_Rebels-Spielzeuglinien/.
As for the episodes that aired last night, here's a summary from Theforce.net:
! > Tup does not have a tumor, his organic chip - which consist of 'Klonprotokoll 66', most likely 'Clone protocol 66' in English - is failing. No explanation is given what caused that. Palpatine claims in the end that some sort of parasite was responsible for it.
The episode starts with a Republic attack on an apparently Separatist controlled world. Cyborg Trench is in charge of the defense. It may be that the Confederacy won that battle since the Anakin and the 501st are back on Coruscant in the last episode of the arc.
Trench witnesses Tups attack on the Jedi master, and informs Dooku. Tyranus informs Sidious who instructs him to capture that defective clone. Tyranus is very aware of the clone end game. He orders Trench to capture Tup, which he does with a tremendous amount of efficiency. It's very sad that we won't see him in future episodes…Anakin, Rex, and Fives sneak to the outside of the Separatist hangar and capture the transport on which Tup was going to Serenno.
They decide to take Tup to Kamino for a full medical exam.
On Kamino it is revealed that Lama Su and the chief scientist working on the clones, Nala Se, are in cahoots with Lord Tyranus whom they contact. Tyranus wears his hood and is not recognizable as Dooku, but it's not really clear whether the Kaminoans know or care that they are working for the Sith. I bet they do and don't care.
Tyranus is worried whether the Tup situation is going to cause problems for 'clone protocol 66' on a larger scale. He provided the Kaminoans with the organic chip they implanted in all the clones and claims that Sifo-Dyas is the only other person knowing about this. We don't know if that's really the case, but I guess this will be revealed in the coming Yoda arc.
Nala Se claims a virus must be responsible for Tups behavior while examining him together with Shaak Ti. Fives wants to know what's wrong and teams up with a really funny Kaminoan medical droid whose number I don't remember. When the Shaak Ti and Nala Se are at odds whether to do a level 5 scan on Tup, Fives starts his own investigation on Tup and finds a tumor in his brain which is eventually removed by the droid. Upon which Tup dies in a very touching scene, muttering about the mission that's always going on his dreams, the mission all the clones know about. The tumor is no tumor at all but a degrading organic chip which is only revealed later.
Tup's remains and the tumor are supposed to be sent to Coruscant, but Shaak Ti and Nala Se disagree on whether they are supposed to be sent to the Jedi Council or to the Chancellor's new medical facility (the one in which Vader is built!).
Nala Se gives Shaak Ti fake evidence. Fives is supposed to stay on Kamino and is scheduled (without Shaak Ti knowing about it) for memory wipe and reprogramming just as his buddy, the medical droid, is. The Kaminoans always speak about the clones as if they are machines. They want to shut them down and stuff like that.
Fives escapes, determined to find out what is going on. He and the droid use medical facilities to find out if Fives as the same chip. It is found and removed. Fives then finds out that all the clones get them as embryos.When Nala Se confronts him she claims that those chips are 'inhibitor chips' preventing the clones from becoming like Jango Fett (i.e. violent and disobedient). The order to that came from the Jedi, more precisely from Sifo-Dyas. She says that without his chip Fives has become a threat. She claims that Tup killed a Jedi because his chip was degrading. Fives is taken into custody to go to Coruscant and explain himself to Palpatine. On the way Nala Se injects Fives with a drug. They meet in the medical facility, in the very room where Vader is built. Palpatine sends everybody out but Fives and his guards and then claims that Fives tried to kill him (his clone guards are dead when Shaak Ti busts into the room). Palpatine hands the two chips - Tup's and Fives' - to Nala Se. The words they exchange strongly indicate that they both know that Palpatine is involved in this whole thing.
Fives is on the run, hides in a clone bar on Coruscant, is tracked by a probe droid, and eventually contacts Rex and Anakin (who are back on Coruscant). They want to meet but Fives gets more and more paranoid and erratic due to the drug he was injected with. He captured Rex and Anakin in ray shields, attempting to explain everything to them. That all the clones are used for something evil, that the evidence is in them (the chips), and that Palpatine is involved (he has even said as much to him, he claims, most likely offscreen). A bunch of Palpatine's personal clone guard arrives and eventually shoots Fives when he tries to reach for his weapon. Fives didn't want to go back with them.Palpatine tells the Jedi a tale about a parasite from the world the 501st was fighting on in the beginning which was messing with the inhibitor chips of the two clones. He says a vaccine is developed to take care of the problem. The Jedi seem to buy the story. Nala Se contacts Darth Tyranus on Serenno, telling him that everything has been taken care of. Dooku removes his hood and contacts Sidious, and they both ensure each other that everything is going to plan and the Jedi won't see Order 66 coming. Sidious even laughs in the end.
Pretty great episodes that really started tying things together for Ep.3.
If you have a German IP address you can watch them here:
http://www.superrtlnow.de/star-wars-the-clone-wars/zustand-unbekannt.php?container_id=153365&player=1&season=6And some more of the previously mentioned unknown character:
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! I saw some people speculating she's Bo Katan's daughter due to her name being similar to Satine and her helmet and chest plate looking similar to Bo's.
