“At all times two, there are!”
With only one week to go earlier than the two-episode premiere of Disney+’s “Star Wars: Ahsoka” TV miniseries on Aug. 23, and with the mixed Hollywood strikes stopping its writers or stars from promoting the present, there appears to be an plain absence of selling momentum surrounding this contemporary solo sequence.
So it is with nice fanfare that we share “Grasp and Apprentice,” a dynamic new seven-minute, behind-the-scenes “Ahsoka” featurette that simply dropped from Disney and Lucasfilm, injecting a much-needed dose of promotional adrenalin into this second spinoff spawned from “The Mandalorian” after “The E book of Boba Fett.”
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This new video brief consists of “Ahsoka” creator Dave Filoni, govt producers Jon Favreau and Carrie Beck, and sequence star Rosario Dawson explaining the sacred bond between grasp and apprentice within the “Star Wars” universe and the necessary technique of passing down information by way of generations with examples all through “Star Wars'” 45-year historical past.
Of explicit curiosity is the origin of the Ahsoka character, filtered by way of the thoughts of George Lucas, who acted as Filoni’s personal grasp navigating the huge territory of “Star Wars” and its far-reaching legacy.
“Ahsoka” unspools 5 years after “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” and proper after the occasions of “The Mandalorian” Season 2. Rosario Dawson takes the highlight right here reprising her function from “The Mandalorian” because the “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” character first delivered to life and voiced by Ashley Eckstein.
Its plot, nonetheless shrouded in semi-secrecy, blends a number of narrative forces realized in “Star Wars Rebels,” “The Mandalorian,” “The E book of Boba Fett,” and the aftermath of “Return of the Jedi.”
Co-starring Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Mandalorian Sabine Wren, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as house pilot Hera Syndulla, Eman Esfandi as Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger, and Ray Stevenson as Jedi Baylan Skoll, Ahsoka will spend its first season with the decided Jedi trying to find the blue-hued “Inheritor to the Empire,” Grand Admiral Thrawn, performed by Lars Mikkelsen. David Tennant is again to voice the lightsaber-making droid named Huyang and Hayden Christensen has been introduced to revive his function as a dueling Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
“Star Wars” luminary Dave Filoni (“The Clone Wars,” “Star Wars Rebels,” “The Mandalorian”) is aboard as Ahsoka’s head author and govt producer alongside co-executive producers Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, Colin Wilson, Carrie Beck and Karen Gilchrist.
‘Star Wars: Ahsoka” premieres on Aug. 23, 2023 solely on Disney+.
