


But as Dave Filoni sees it, the distinction between animation and live-action doesn’t matter as much the act of storytelling itself. Working with and setting things down in The Mandalorian created an opportunity to see: How does Ahsoka work as a character in live action?Īs seen in the trailer for Ahsoka that premiered last month, there are plenty of Rebels characters who are set to be key characters in the Star Wars series’ cast, including Nastahsa Liu Bordizzo’s Sabine Wren, Man Esfandi’s Ezra Bridger, Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s Hera Syndulla, Chopper and Lars Mikkelsen reprising Grand Admiral Thrawn. The story kind of evolved since I worked on Rebels.


Even visually, that changed the way I could execute certain things in Rebels. Rebels is a different style than Clone Wars. When EW asked Filoni if he sees Ahsoka as just Star Wars Rebels Season 5, he first admitted that this is “one way of looking at it” because of the epilogue at the end of the animated series, and that “efinitely all signs are indicating that there's a continuation.” However, he then said this:įor me, when I'm telling those stories, I don't limit things like, 'Oh, well, I did it an animation, so I would do it distinctly different in live action.' There's just the story that it is, and I was telling it in one medium. Filoni created Ahsoka Tano for The Clone Wars more than 15 years ago, and following her brief appearances in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, he wrote all of the episodes for the character’s own show, which he executive produced alongside Jon Favreau.
