Ashoka Tano’s new Disney Plus series isn’t far, far away. The upcoming series will come in August. Disney revealed this at Star Wars Celebration on Friday. Lucasfilm also showed off the first trailer for Ashoka. It shows Rosario Dawson in full Jedi action, teasing Star Wars’ first live-action Thrawn, and revealing Mary-Elizabeth Winstead as the live-action Hera Syndulla, from Star Wars Rebels.
In the trailer, Ahsoka meets up with Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), with whom she spent plenty of time with Star Wars Rebels. That, along with the fact that we know Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) will be in the show, means that Ezra’s rescue mission is at least part of the series’ plot.
Ezra disappeared at the end of Star Wars Rebels when a group of purrgil inadvertently hyperspaced him and Grand Admiral Thrawn to an unknown location in the galaxy.
Ahsoka will be released in 2023
Let’s get to your most burning question first, shall we? Filoni has finally spilt the release date at Star Wars Celebration 2023. After a year of teasing, Ahsoka is officially coming in August, people! That’ll give you plenty of time to queue up Rebels because, as we’ll explain below, you may need it.
Has a trailer come out yet?
As you can see, the release date wasn’t the only thing revealed at this year’s Star Wars Celebration. A teaser for the show premiered at the event, and the two-minute trailer centres on Dawson’s Ahsoka as she continues to wander the galaxy. Even “hearing whispers about Thrawn’s return”. But it’s not without a few surprises, like confirmation that Mary Elizabeth Winstead is playing live-action Hera Syndulla. Mother!
Who is in the series?
Ahsoka is Dawson’s show. Also, it seems more and more likely that Natasha Liu Bordizzo will have a major part to play. Sabine Wren is another prominent character from Rebels. Filoni also confirmed our suspicions that Winstead — whose involvement in the series was sweetly spoiled by her husband.
The footage confirmed that Genevieve O’Reilly’s Mon Mothma joins the cast along with The Inspection’s Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger. It’ll be the character’s live-action debut after appearing in Rebels (originally voiced by Taylor Gray). Ray Stevenson and Ivanna Sakhno’s unnamed and possibly Sith (they’re wielding red sabres!) baddies also debuted in the trailer. Oh, and how could we forget that Chopper the Droid will make his live-action debut as well?
What do we know about the plot of Ahsoka?
The plot of Ahsoka was under wraps. That is until footage — which we normies have yet to see in 2023 — at Star Wars Celebration 2022 confirmed fan speculation. Ahsoka and Sabine are searching for Ezra Bridger, the baby. In a short teaser shown exclusively for the Mando panel crowd, fans saw Ahsoka in front of the Rebels mural as Bordizzo’s Sabine walks in to join her.
When is Ahsoka set in the Star Wars timeline?
While Star Wars Rebels takes place about five years before the events of A New Hope. The new Ahsoka series will presumably pick up after her appearance in The Mandalorian season two. The Mandalorian series is ready five years after the events in Return of the Jedi.
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