Star Wars Rebels – Inquisitor Consults With Darth Vader, Plus Other News.

What Is Thy Bidding My MasterYesterday, ABC aired Star Wars Rebels: Spark Of Rebellion with a brand-new scene at the beginning, featuring the talents of Jason Isaacs as the Inquisitor and James Earl Jones as Darth Vader. A low-quality recording of the clip has now been leaked online – make the jump to watch it and catch up with other news on the show.

 

 

 

 

In addition, Making Star Wars has a few interesting details on a few rumors relating to the show. According to an inside source, two voice actors who had recurring roles in The Clone Wars were apparently “deeply involved with the show” – Andrew Kishino and Sam Witwer. Whether they are reprising roles in The Clone Wars for Rebels or are playing entirely new characters is unclear at this time.

 

Nonetheless, it’s worth mentioning that Andrew Kishino’s character, Saw Gererra, was essentially the forerunner of the rebel soldiers that we see in the Original Trilogy (an in an ironic twist of fate, he was taught by the man who would become Darth Vader). Sam Witwer is a more interesting case, given that he has displayed quite a range in a number of Star Wars roles – not only did he play The Son of Mortis and Darth Maul in The Clone Wars, but he also played Galen ‘Starkiller’ Marek and Emperor Palpatine in The Force Unleashed. I’d personally guess that Witwer could be signed on to play our old buddy Sheev, given that he did uncanny impression of Ian McDiarmid (circa 1983) for The Force Unleashed, or that Disney may want to bring the character of Starkiller back in a revised version of that story; still, nothing is clear at this point.

 

From there, I’m going to directly quote MSW, as this next part is pretty specific, and I don’t want to misinterpret anything with my own speculation. We’re getting into spoiler territory for the remainder of the first season, so I’ll just post an unrelated picture to make a small break, and you can spoil yourself to Rebels at your own risk.

 

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Hera and Kanan are in contact with a man named Fulcrum. Fulcrum is a codename. The crew members of the starship Ghost do not know about Fulcrum and this leads to some trust issues down the road.

 

The interesting thing about Fulcrum is he is in contact with the various rebel cells throughout the galaxy. He is bringing them intelligence, supplies, and viable targets. It is not immediately clear if there is a connection between Fulcrum and Bail Organa at this point in the early stages of the Galactic Civil War or not.

 

This path takes the crew of the Ghost down a dangerous journey where they eventually learn about the Empire’s five year plan for the outer rim territories. The crew gets titillating information from a Rodian with a Lobot styled head device on which contains information on Ezra’s parents as well.

 

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I cannot confirm this final bit beyond the sources giving me tons of implication. It appears the rebels are given deeper purpose as the series moves on in Season 1. The story involves investigating and eventually trying to halt the development of a super weapon conceptualized during the Clone Wars if you can see what we’re getting at. The other interesting part is that this five year plan would run right into A New Hope.

 

I believe that, should this rumor be true, it would illustrate how Disney wants to create a sort of interconnected continuity. Nonetheless, I’m still hoping that they’ll show what happens to the crew after the events of A New Hope.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

27 thoughts on “Star Wars Rebels – Inquisitor Consults With Darth Vader, Plus Other News.

  • October 27, 2014 at 10:51 pm
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    Nice to have some new Vader material! I hope we get to see him in action!

  • October 27, 2014 at 11:14 pm
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    I’m glad I got to finally see this. In Georgia it was blacked out in favor of the Gubernatorial debate.

  • October 27, 2014 at 11:24 pm
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    Sam Witwer’s appearance in the series would be a nice fan serivce. Especially if he plays Starkiller… but it is impossivel. The Inquisitor already exists, another powerful character would foque the things up.

    • October 28, 2014 at 2:39 am
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      God, I knew that someday I was going to use portuguese instead of english. impossible*

  • October 27, 2014 at 11:28 pm
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    But wait a second…. they would steal the plans? And just five years later they would deliver to Bail Organa? If it is, it’s a bit forced.

    • October 27, 2014 at 11:41 pm
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      “Forced”? Pun intended?

      • October 28, 2014 at 2:37 am
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        uhauhahuauhauhauha no, it wasn’t.

    • October 28, 2014 at 2:52 am
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      Five years sounds like a long fuckin time to be carrying around the plans. Hopefully they’ll do some shit that makes sense. I guess it would b cool if these characters have a hand in getting the plans to Leia.

  • October 27, 2014 at 11:40 pm
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    Pls someone give me link for Full episode!

  • October 28, 2014 at 12:16 am
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    I think I remember seeing somewhere and it might have been someone just talking to talk but, the show is to end with the crew on Alderaan.

    • October 28, 2014 at 12:56 am
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      oh shit! that would be cool

  • October 28, 2014 at 12:25 am
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    The opening pan-up shot is artsy-fartsy with the merging triangle shapes, but it ends up seeming a little weird, logistically. The first two star destroyers are heading in the opposite direction of the Inquisitor’s destroyer, which gives the impression that they’re on a collision-course with the other two destroyers following behind the Inquisitor’s ship. If this is supposed to be an armada travelling together, then why aren’t the ships all travelling in the same direction?

    • October 28, 2014 at 12:28 am
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      They are emptying their garbage like in Empire Strikes Back. 🙂

    • October 28, 2014 at 2:52 am
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      To give style to the fleet :v hehehehe. Or the Imperials are drunk and driving crazy.

    • October 28, 2014 at 2:54 am
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      No because Inquisitor is lame so Vader won’t allow him to fly in the same direction.

  • October 28, 2014 at 3:17 am
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    Nit-picker Mode:
    Is it just me or does Vader sound a little … off? Even with poor quality audio considered, something about the way Vader speaks like the voice tone and even the wording just sounds a little strange.
    I don’t blame anyone, Jones is recording with a different voice-director, and getting Vader-talk right has got to be hard (for the director)
    Still, it just feels like a detail that could have been a little more perfect,

    • October 28, 2014 at 6:58 am
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      It’s probably just because he’s getting old.

  • October 28, 2014 at 3:21 am
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    “The Children of the Force” I think that would make a great title for episode 7.

  • October 28, 2014 at 9:55 am
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    Yeah I thought something was strange about his voice as well. Found it really hard to understand.

  • October 28, 2014 at 1:41 pm
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    Yeah, I agree. The voice was off. It sounded like he was retarded or something. Still, definitely awesome to have new Vader material.

  • October 28, 2014 at 3:46 pm
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    The man is 83 years old. Voices change over the years and 30 years is a long time. If you have seen interviews or films with Hamill, Fisher, and Ford then you know what I mean. When episode VII is released, we should expect our heroes to sound a lot different from the way we remember them. I loved this scene as an honorary homage to Jones, but I expect that for future appearances of Vader, the show’s creaters will use Matt Sloan or someone else who can closely match the tone of the original Vader. It will always sound a little “off” to us though, I think. As close as they may get to that sound, I think we have to accept that the Vader our ears remember perished in 1983 on the second death star. May he RIP. I’m glad the character is back though 🙂

    • October 29, 2014 at 12:55 pm
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      Nit-picker mode: Yeah but even with his age the pacing and wording and tone-decisions were off, that stuff isn’t age dependent.

  • October 28, 2014 at 4:19 pm
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    milkin that star wars cash cow till dust squirts out the udder

    • October 29, 2014 at 1:32 am
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      Ken, you’re such a troll. Do something more useful with your time.

    • October 29, 2014 at 12:58 pm
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      They’re not milking the cow; they’re pulling out a calf.

  • October 29, 2014 at 6:57 am
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    you tell that slime ridden piece of filth he’ll get no such pleasure from us! (right chewie?)…Raughhhh!….I have been a star wars fan since sitting atop my dads truck wathcing a new hope at the drive in back in 1977…not trying to be a ‘troll’ but the way disney wiped out ALL of the star wars eu coninuity like it never happened is really bothering me and i dont like it.

  • October 29, 2014 at 7:00 am
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    Xisor,Grand Admiral Thrawn,The Noghri,Rouge sqaudron,there was alot of good stuff,some crap too but still…the storys of what happened between the original trilogies has been told,it makes me sick how disney is milking this bloated cash cow…use this money and time and talent to tell new stories…not what happened between a new hope and empire for the 1000 time ok

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