Star Wars Young Adult Novel Featuring Fan Favorite Ahsoka Tano Announced
The Star Wars Rebels season two finale “Twilight of the Apprentice” aired on Disney XD last night with a spectacular ending that will be talked about for months. Many fans have been left wondering what happened last night and about some of the back story we still need to find out about a certain character.
With a game changing finale and fans having so many questions left unanswered, a new novel starring Ahsoka Tano, the breakout star from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and a central and pivotal character in Star Wars: Rebels season 2, was announced by Disney-Lucasfilm Press.
It seems fans are finally getting the Ahsoka Tano story they have been waiting for.
From Nerdist.com
Ahsoka Tano, fan favorite character from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, will be the star of her own young adult novel from Disney Lucasfilm Press this October 11, 2016! Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone Wars, and before she re-appeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally, her story will begin to be told. Following her experiences with the Jedi and the devastation of Order 66, Ahsoka is unsure she can be part of a larger whole ever again. But her desire to fight the evils of the Empire and protect those who need it will lead her right to Bail Organa, and the Rebel Alliance….
“Ahsoka has a long history, and there is much more to it than the fans know,” says Dave Filoni, Executive Producer/Supervising Director [of Star Wars Rebels and The Clone Wars]. “I have always worked on her story, even parts that I know we will probably never see on screen. By broadening her story from the animated series to the written page, I feel we have a real opportunity to provide fans with details about her character that they would not know otherwise. We are also responding to the strong fan support that we have seen Ahsoka receive over the last eight years. The fans want more Ahsoka and we are going to give it to you, and since I’ve been there since the beginning I am dedicated to working with publishing to help make this book as authentic a part of her story as if we filmed it for the series.”
Author E.K. Johnston has been tapped to pen the novel to bring Ahsoka’s untold story to the many fans who have been wanting it for years.
“Writing for Ahsoka is tremendously exciting. She has a blank spot in her story that I know a lot of fans (including myself!) want to see filled in. And being able to help tell her story is a dream come true.” Johnston said.
Johnston has also wrote A Thousand Nights for Disney Publishing.
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I hope they use the unused stories from the clone wars aswell in this. So cool!
Yes I hope the same. Like Dark Disciple, based on unrealeased Clone Wars Scripts
Me too. I want to see the Siege of Mandalore.
Really looking forward to this book. It’ll be nice to finally learn what Lady Tano was doing in those missing years.
This is great news only slightly dampened by the fact it will be a young adult book.
Ashoka always appealed young and teen audience most.
So what did you expected ? Porn ?
An adult novel. 😉
Teens read adult books all the time. If a book is labelled young adult it usually means it will have certain beats and themes that are common in that genre. Fitting in, a school setting, sickly romance and boring “project onto me” characters. By making it a young adult novel Lucasfilm are insulting their teen audience. They are basically saying “hey we’re going to write a book about Ahsoka but don’t worry we’ll apply a formula you’re tiny adolescent minds can understand.”
I really hope I have to eat my words though.
Lost Stars was YA and it was one of the best books in the new canon. Featuring one and only sex scene in Star Wars. YA doesn’t mean bad or children’s book.
Lost Stars is actually my favorite book so far from the new canon.
Mine too.
True. Although Shattered Empire and Lando both had a moment where their main characters basked in the afterglow. Lol. 🙂
2, actually.
Looking at the summaries for the other books E.K. Johnston has written, she’s not writing for an audience of elementary school kids. There’s *NO* reason to think this Ahsoka book will be light or fluffy or sugarcoated crap.
No but it could be formulated crap like Lost Stars.
YOU DIDN’T LIKE LOST STARS?!
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Young adult doesn’t have that reputation. Young adult has the reputation of being shite.
Lost Stars was young adult and the story had some dark parts and themes, so I’m not worried about this.
It’s not that young adult books can’t go dark that I’m worried. I’m worried because young adult books almost always deal with the same themes and have the same story beats.
This sounds really cool; I was expecting some kind of Ahsoka announcement after the finale last night. I wonder if they’ll use the story about Ahsoka going after Maul around the same time as the opening of ROTS that Filoni has referred to…
Very pleased with this news. It looks like Ahsoka’s story is not over. ^_^
Shame a lot of fan won’t give this a chance due to being YA. I’m not familiar with the author but I’ll take even a mediocore young adult novel over more shit like Heir To The Jedi or Aftermath.
I enjoyed Aftermath, and I’m looking forward to it’s sequels. Heir to the Jedi was rough though. Honestly, I wasn’t a fan of Lost Stars either.
You are the first person on this sire to admit that. It’s the only real example in the new EU that most fans can usually agree on.
If this book is “Young Adult” in the same way that Lost Stars was, I’m all of it.
I wish I could watch this show, but alas, I have a heavy work month and the show comes on at inconvenient times for me.
The episodes get posted to the Watch Disney XD app right after, s o you could watch them there.
This will be quite appealing if it’s handled anything like the recent Lost Stars novel. With Ashoka indicating that she may not be as Jedi-like as she once was, it will be necessary for them to be willing to sully her slightly in a way that can easily build to that. And if they take inspiration from how Lost Stars was handled, it will be a thrilling story to tell.