Warrior. Outcast. Rebel. Jedi.
Set after the fall of the Empire, "Star Wars: Ahsoka" follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.
Ahsoka stars Rosario Dawson as the former Padawan of Anakin Skywalker in the new Star Wars show. The new show also features the live-action versions of characters from the Star Wars Rebels cartoon - Hera Syndalla played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger and Lars Mikkelsen as Grand Admiral Thrawn. They are also joined by Ray Stevenson, David Tennant, Eman Esfandi, Genevieve O'Reilly, Diana Lee Inosanto and Hayden Christensen.
The episodes are directed by Dave Filoni, Steph Green, Peter Ramsey, Jennifer Getzinger, Geeta Vasant Patel and Rick Famuyiwa. Dave Filoni is the head writer and executive produces along with Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, Colin Wilson and Carrie Beck. Karen Gilchrist serves as co-executive producer.
The show hits Disney+ on 23rd August 2023.
Set after the fall of the Empire, "Star Wars: Ahsoka" follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.
Ahsoka stars Rosario Dawson as the former Padawan of Anakin Skywalker in the new Star Wars show. The new show also features the live-action versions of characters from the Star Wars Rebels cartoon - Hera Syndalla played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger and Lars Mikkelsen as Grand Admiral Thrawn. They are also joined by Ray Stevenson, David Tennant, Eman Esfandi, Genevieve O'Reilly, Diana Lee Inosanto and Hayden Christensen.
The episodes are directed by Dave Filoni, Steph Green, Peter Ramsey, Jennifer Getzinger, Geeta Vasant Patel and Rick Famuyiwa. Dave Filoni is the head writer and executive produces along with Jon Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, Colin Wilson and Carrie Beck. Karen Gilchrist serves as co-executive producer.
The show hits Disney+ on 23rd August 2023.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:01 - Always two there are.
00:05 No more, no less.
00:08 A master and an apprentice.
00:12 - Star Wars always has these great master-apprentice
00:15 relationships.
00:16 - Remember, a Jedi can feel the force flowing through him.
00:20 - It's very much the idea of apprenticeship,
00:23 the need for those two groups to come together in order
00:25 to pass down the knowledge and to help save the world,
00:28 in the case of Star Wars.
00:29 - When I left you, I was but the learner.
00:31 Now I am the master.
00:33 - Only a master of evil, Darth.
00:36 - All of that wisdom gets passed down over those generations.
00:39 We have Qui-Gon Jinn, who's the master of Obi-Wan,
00:42 who's the master of Anakin Skywalker.
00:43 And by being trained by Anakin, Ahsoka
00:46 is part of that legacy as well.
00:48 - Ahsoka is a character that Dave Filoni
00:54 created and worked with George Lucas on in the Clone Wars.
00:58 Originally, we didn't know exactly what the Clone Wars was
01:01 going to be.
01:01 And there was a Jedi, and there was a Padawan,
01:04 and thought we'll put them on adventures.
01:05 But George had other ideas.
01:08 He says, well, let's give Anakin Skywalker a Padawan.
01:12 And I was like, Anakin doesn't have a Padawan.
01:15 And he just looked at me and said, Anakin has a Padawan.
01:19 And that was basically it.
01:20 That's how Ahsoka came about.
01:24 - We cast Ashley Eckstein to be the voice of the character.
01:27 And she's fantastic.
01:28 And the Clone Wars and Rebels--
01:30 - For a character that has such depth and complexity,
01:32 to bring that to live action made
01:35 a tremendous amount of sense.
01:36 - Rosario Dawson is such an incredibly powerful actress.
01:39 And she loves this character.
01:43 - I'm playing someone who is an absolute expert.
01:45 I really wanted to be able to physicalize that
01:48 as much as possible.
01:49 - There need to be a lot of lightsaber fights.
01:51 And they have to be good, because our fans
01:52 know the difference.
01:54 - No matter how tired I was, I was like,
01:56 sign me up for some more.
01:58 Sign me up for some more.
02:01 - When you step into Star Wars, you are part of a legacy.
02:04 And we had to uphold that history,
02:06 and yet do this completely new and different thing.
02:11 From the beginning of this series,
02:13 Ahsoka is out there on the fringe of the galaxy.
02:17 When she hears whispers of this warlord's return,
02:20 she decides to enlist her friends' help.
02:23 - This is about preventing another war.
02:26 You know who could help?
02:27 Sabine Wren.
02:28 - I'm not sure she'll want to help.
02:30 - I'm telling the story about this mentor-student relationship
02:34 that passes from Anakin to Ahsoka to Sabine.
02:38 - There is nothing easy about being a Jedi.
02:42 - It's quite extraordinary.
02:43 I bring this to life.
02:44 - When the stakes are this high, we have to do what's right.
02:53 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:56 (dramatic music)