by Hayley Charlesworth
Star Wars: Rebels is the latest animated addition to the Star Wars franchise, to begin airing on Disney XD in Autumn 2014. It is set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and is the first entry to the new Star Wars canon. But what else do we know?
Star Wars: Rebels is the latest animated addition to the Star Wars franchise, to begin airing on Disney XD in Autumn 2014. It is set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, and is the first entry to the new Star Wars canon. But what else do we know?
Well, we have an idea on the story, for a start. The Galactic Empire are hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights, while the rebellion that will later see Luke, Leia and Han amongst its ranks is just beginning to form. The story concerns a small group of these rebels, five years before the Battle of Yarin, and their reasons for going against the Empire.
Rebels is a CGI-animated series, featuring the voices of Freddie Prinze Jr, Taylor Gray, Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar, and Vanessa Marshall as the rag-tag team of rebels, headed by Prinze’s Kanan Jarrus, a survivor of the Great Jedi Purge. His team include Ezra, a fourteen-year-old con artist, Zeb, based on the initial designs for Chewbacca, weapons expert Sabine, and pilot Hera. The series is to begin with a one-hour special, after which it will air regularly on Disney XD.
Rebels is a CGI-animated series, featuring the voices of Freddie Prinze Jr, Taylor Gray, Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar, and Vanessa Marshall as the rag-tag team of rebels, headed by Prinze’s Kanan Jarrus, a survivor of the Great Jedi Purge. His team include Ezra, a fourteen-year-old con artist, Zeb, based on the initial designs for Chewbacca, weapons expert Sabine, and pilot Hera. The series is to begin with a one-hour special, after which it will air regularly on Disney XD.
With the full length trailer set to premiere on Star Wars Day, fans have only so far been able to glimpse a 30-second-preview (although by the time of this article’s posting, the trailer will be posted online). As a CGI animated show, the characters don’t have the same charm as the costumed creatures of the original trilogy, although the animation is clean and crisp, and there’s not a Jar Jar Binks in sight. Absent from the screen for a while, Freddie Prinze Jr may be heading for a comeback as a voice actor, just as Luke Skywalker himself, did with the Joker. Nevertheless, with Star Wars Episode VII still a long wait away, Rebels could well be the perfect appetiser for this latest big-screen outing.
UPDATED - Below is the first full trailer for Star Wars: Rebels.
UPDATED - Below is the first full trailer for Star Wars: Rebels.
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