Spoilers Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 - Panel News/Announcements Thread
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Yeah, seems like another diverse bunch, and while I think season one was good (if mixed) this looks like they really raised the bar.
Weirdly I think I'm most curious about Lucasfilm Animation's short. What will they do when all the usual creative boundaries are lifted? You can tell they're taking full advantage of their existing library of assets from Clone Wars & Bad Batch, but the detail is next level. Seems like the plot will be an "Inquisitor hunts down an old Jedi" type of thing, but it's the animation and stylistic flourishes that have me really interested.
ETA: watching the panel, it looks like I misinterpreted which short was done by which studio. LF's short is 2D animation, and the one using all the LF 3D assets is the one by 88 Pictures.
Weirdly I think I'm most curious about Lucasfilm Animation's short. What will they do when all the usual creative boundaries are lifted? You can tell they're taking full advantage of their existing library of assets from Clone Wars & Bad Batch, but the detail is next level. Seems like the plot will be an "Inquisitor hunts down an old Jedi" type of thing, but it's the animation and stylistic flourishes that have me really interested.
ETA: watching the panel, it looks like I misinterpreted which short was done by which studio. LF's short is 2D animation, and the one using all the LF 3D assets is the one by 88 Pictures.
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They actually didn't. They may have gotten a peek, but not a peak.
Visions 2 looks good. Japanese animation gets so much play in general that I'm eager to see the more diverse offerings on hand this time around.
irreverent characters are go.
At least that's better than nothing.
I love how the cast all sat down on the edge of the stage to watch the different trailer and just freaked out like the rest of us nerds.
A pity it's the final season but I'm not too surprised. If it weren't for Crosshair at Weyland, the show could almost have ended after season 2....until Omega's capture.
Good to know that at least Rex, Wolfe, and Cody all return and more Fennec the merrier! I wonder how close-ended the finale will be. Like Saul said, chances are most of them will die sooner than later since they aren't seemingly around circa Rebels. I also suspect there are larger plans for Omega beyond her early days. Perhaps even appearing in the post-Return of the Jedi-era live-action shows.
Damn, volume two looks amazing an-HOLY SHIT, AARDMAN?! Yes, all of the other animation styles look incredible but I never thought I'd see Aardman Star Wars! Give it to me now!
Three seasons feels about right. Matters are already moving to a head, so it's just enough narrative space to get things wrapped up in some kind of conclusion.
Well, we don't know for a fact that they're not around at the time of 'Rebels', just that they're not around for the specific events depicted in the show. Which given the size and scope of the rebellion, isn't really saying much.
For all we know Ahsoka recruited Omega as a Fulcrum agent while Obi-Wan was off rescuing Leia on Daiyu, and later when Lothal was liberated she was imbedded at the Imperial Academy on Bestine as a flight instructor, quietly funnelling defecting cadets to Yavin, where Wrecker, Hunter, and Crosshair were training the Alliance's pathfinder commando units.
Or they all retired to Pabu and stayed out of the whole thing.
And yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if Omega shows up in live action for Book of Boba Fett Vol 2 or something. Indeed, casting Keisha Castle-Hughes to play ostensibly an older version of her could be a very deliberate choice indeed . . .
Anyone else spot the 'Grand Day Out' related cameo?
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Yup, that's what I'm hoping for which is why I said "seemingly." The galaxy is a big place and we know Ahsoka was off doing her own thing during the original trilogy so why not the Bad Batch, too.
That said, even after what happened with Tech, I'm still expecting a dark ending to a degree.
Oh, quite so! I didn't even think about the significance of her casting until just now. Fingers crossed.
I watched the trailer and I'm not sure what you're referring to. But then it's been ages since I last watched "Grand Day Out."
Omega is the Queen of Naboo?
The ski obsessed coin operated robot is standing around in the background of one of the shots. Weirdly, it doesn't even look out of place in Star Wars . . .
I mean look at it this way; why else cast a whole other person (who just so happens to be the same ethnicity as Temuera Morrison) to play an older version of Omega, when they can just have Michelle Ang pitch her voice a bit lower instead?
That would have been a cool connection had the timing not been all wrong!
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Damn! I'll have to go back and look for it.
Just a general FYI; now that's it's been a few days I've gone back and gathered up the complete VoDs for as many of the individual panels as I can find and added the links to the bottom of the OP. So if anyone missed a panel they wanted to see but doesn't want to scrub through hours and hours of the full official livestream; that should sort you out.
Still only have recaps from the Showcase & Ahsoka panels, but I doubt those will make it out any time soon (without a copyright strike.)
Still only have recaps from the Showcase & Ahsoka panels, but I doubt those will make it out any time soon (without a copyright strike.)
Will Ahsoka and Grogu co-star in the upcoming Rey movie?
As we all know, Ahsoka is Dave Filoni's baby. The more he rises the ranks at Lucasfilm, the more prominence she gains, with her new series being her high-water mark thus far. We also know that Grogu has been a merchandising bonanza for Disney, despite never having appeared on the big screen. We also also know that Rey Skywalker is due to star in a movie in the next few years, set roughly a decade after TRoS, and we have had no indication thus far that either Ahsoka or Grogu have perished by that point. (Just because Ahsoka joined the group of bygone Jedi voices when Rey embodied "all the Jedi" is hardly proof she's no longer alive, and IIRC Filoni has confirmed that that was no such definitive indication; she could easily have been Skyping in from a Jedi Temple or something.)
So, given the above, I think it's only natural to speculate that Ahsoka and Grogu may join Rey on her next big-screen adventure. If the Ahsoka series is a hit, and the character gains mainstream popularity, Filoni and Co. would have no reason not to bring her back for the movie... and if the series doesn't get much viewership, Filoni would probably like to do so anyway? The character seems inextricably bound to his overall contribution to the franchise at this point, and, given he declined to off her before Yavin, I'm dubious he'd do so before he absolutely had to.
Ahsoka may be too old to still be an adventuring warrior by the time of Rey's upcoming movie, so maybe if she does appear, it'll be a more limited, mentorship role. But, if she appears, she'll have both outlived and lived longer than Luke and Leia. Not too shabby!
As we all know, Ahsoka is Dave Filoni's baby. The more he rises the ranks at Lucasfilm, the more prominence she gains, with her new series being her high-water mark thus far. We also know that Grogu has been a merchandising bonanza for Disney, despite never having appeared on the big screen. We also also know that Rey Skywalker is due to star in a movie in the next few years, set roughly a decade after TRoS, and we have had no indication thus far that either Ahsoka or Grogu have perished by that point. (Just because Ahsoka joined the group of bygone Jedi voices when Rey embodied "all the Jedi" is hardly proof she's no longer alive, and IIRC Filoni has confirmed that that was no such definitive indication; she could easily have been Skyping in from a Jedi Temple or something.)
So, given the above, I think it's only natural to speculate that Ahsoka and Grogu may join Rey on her next big-screen adventure. If the Ahsoka series is a hit, and the character gains mainstream popularity, Filoni and Co. would have no reason not to bring her back for the movie... and if the series doesn't get much viewership, Filoni would probably like to do so anyway? The character seems inextricably bound to his overall contribution to the franchise at this point, and, given he declined to off her before Yavin, I'm dubious he'd do so before he absolutely had to.
Ahsoka may be too old to still be an adventuring warrior by the time of Rey's upcoming movie, so maybe if she does appear, it'll be a more limited, mentorship role. But, if she appears, she'll have both outlived and lived longer than Luke and Leia. Not too shabby!
I am quite confident this will be the case.
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