UPDATE 2! Star Wars Rebels: Three Characters Slated to Appear in Season 2 Premiere?
Great news for fans of Rebels, the Original Trilogy, and The Clone Wars: two characters from the movies and one from the previous cartoon series are slated to make appearances in the next season premiere for newest animated series. One of them even reprises their role from the movies once again!
From MakingStarWars:
Back at the Marvel Comics event I attended at Comics FTW recently, I overheard exactly who was in the opening of Star Wars Rebels Season II by someone from Lucasfilm (not the creators speaking at the event). Apparently they didn’t know who I was… After being the Fletch of Star Wars news reporting, I took the information to my sources. They couldn’t believe it. How did I know this? When I told them they were shocked. It was pretty funny. That was when it was confirmed for me. Since then I’ve had it confirmed solidly again.
Who are these three characters that Jason Ward heard about, you might ask? We’ll start with the two from the Original Trilogy, because they aren’t spoilers – they’re standing up there in the image above. Emperor Palpatine is going to show up alongside Darth Vader. According to Jason, Darth Vader will be voiced by James Earl Jones once again, who recorded his lines in advance. Palpatine, on the other hand, is a more complex story – both Ian McDiarmid (Palpatine’s actor in the movies) and Tim Curry (Palpatine’s voice actor for The Clone Wars, following the untimely death of Ian Abercrombie) are said to not be taking up the role for the show. My guess as to who they’d pick to play dear old Sheev would be Sam Witwer, who is already “deeply involved” with the show, and is capable of doing a fantastic Palpatine impression circa 1983.
Spoilers after this point!
The third character, as I’ve mentioned, is from The Clone Wars. No, it’s not Hondo Ohnaka, who will be appearing on the show eventually. It’s that other character – the one we keep talking about. Ahsoka Tano is back, voiced by Ashley Eckstein once again – and yes, we have evidence aside from Ward’s word suggesting that she’s Fulcrum. According to a French website chronicling the roles of voice actors and actresses for French cartoons and French dubs, Ahsoka’s French voice actress is back in a role quite literally described as “Ahsoka Tano disguised as Fulcrum” when translated into English (thanks to Rebels Report for making the find). That’s a pretty cut-and-dry answer for the identity of the user of a codename. I’ll chalk the finding of this surprisingly decisive answer to the biggest question in Rebels up to the will of the Force and leave it at that.
I should note that, with three to five episodes left until the first season comes to a close (based on Simon Kinberg’s comments that the first season would be 16 episodes long, and factoring “Spark Of Rebellion” as two episodes strung together or its own thing), some of these characters might pop up a little before then. If they do, it would be most likely in the season finale. An official airdate for the next season has not been announced, even as the current season comes to a close. Also worth noting is that this episode will be shown at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim; I’ll be going there, and I look forward both to seeing the episode and meeting with some of you guys!
UPDATE!
The Bearded Trio reports that another Original Trilogy character will be making an appearance later in the second season.
Our source has told us that a certain actor who we won’t mention at this time has been considered for a role in the second season of Star Wars Rebels and that role is Han Solo. The actor has been associated with playing the character previously.
We were told by our source “It’s not concrete yet but he is in talks to do the cameo of Han Solo in season 2.”
Harrison Ford may be too expensive for the show, so they will most likely be going with one of the previous voice actors from Star Wars video games. But still, seeing the good captain in animated form is bound to be interesting.
UPDATE 2!
And a visual proof that Ahsoka is Fulcrum:
The CV on actress Olivia Luccioni’s official website #Fulcrum The Loth-cat appears to be out of the bag pic.twitter.com/T3vaZOuIW6
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) February 8, 2015
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Great to see some familiar faces! I think it’s really something this show needs right now to give it much more depth to it. But still, what’s up with the silly looking lightsabers in this show? Am I the only one bothered by this?
The stated reason was they wanted to display them how they were originally concieved: very narrow, rapier-like. Personally, I like them.
Definitely you are not the only one, and how come and official padawan of the Jedi order chooses to use to use a laser gun over the light saber 90% of the time?????…Plus the more deep the story gets, the more it grows apart of the original story….sad, just another cash grab….really sad
Because he has been trying to keep people from identifying him as a Jedi, as much as possible.
“just another cash grab”
It hasn’t cost me a penny so far. How much are you paying?
You get a cable bill don’t you? So yes it has if you are watching it legally.
I guess you watch Dancing with the Stars and all matter of MTV ilk.
Cable is the enemy.
I agree. That’s why I don’t have cable and as a result, haven’t seen the show yet.
Did you never play the Jedi knight games?
there is also a video on rebels recon explaining this. If I remember the light sabers are rapier like/ weak and broken light due to the lack of force users as well. With that being said I like the “broken” thin light sabers
Now let’s hear their in universe explanation as to why it’s a cartoon instead of live action. Come on! Not everything needs to be explained. It’s a style choice just like the cartoonist depictions of the characters. My advice to anyone sweating the small stuff like this: Don’t read too much into it.
I watch Rebels with my daughter and at first I was worried that it was a dud… But as the season has progressed, I have found it getting better and better. I am looking forward to the second season especially with the appearance once again of a Jones voiced Vader!
I’m only seeing this show aired here in time for the season to end. So I guess I was already out of the spoiler-free zone.
These are great ideas. I hope it works out well on the show. Would be nice to see young Vader developing his choking skills. Maybe even show him whip out the lightsaber.
DisneyXD should play the trailer once in awhile as part of the commercial breaks. I’m sure there are those of us demented fans that are still watching the mf. Might as well put it on tv too.
Vader could already force choke in ep 3. He used it on his wife on Mustafar.
And I thought he used it on some of the separatists on Mustafar
Anakin used the Force choke once or twice in the Clone Wars.
And in The Phantom Menace to cheat at pod racing. 😉
Stay thirsty my friends…
I meant like the Imperial officers and establishing himself and developing choking as Vader’s “thing”.
Of course he could do it early-on, that wasn’t what the fuck I meant.
I just wish the 3d model will be awesome: both tarkin and bail organa are deeply inferior in the series. I keep my hope as Hera is outstanding.
Yes i love Hera. Loved her in odiot’s array.
Ahsoka Tano…..perfect!
I thought there was only one episode left of Rebels this season?
Simon Kinberg said there would be sixteen. How he counted that isn’t quite clear, given that the four shorts are labeled as an episode in the production code, and that the movie is labeled as two.
In regards to the actual show, ten episodes have aired so far, with the next one released on an app. So once that episode is broadcasted, we’re looking at between two and five more episodes airing before the season ends. I think that it’ll most likely be three, since the movie was explicitly stated to be “the first two episodes” by Kinberg before they decided to turn them into a TV movie.
The other guest I expect from Clone Wars is Darth Moul.
Fight withVader will be awesome
I hate to say that but… I feel Vader would be actually inferior to Maul!
Star Wars fights are like pro-wrestling matches. The one that wins will remain constant; the one that looses will become a blithering idiot when it’s time to die (like Maul did in TPM just standing there watching Obi-wan flip over him and cut him in two.) Dumb! Or Boba Fett’s Rocket pack misfiring because it got bumped a little. Or Stormtroopers being competent fighters against rebel soldiers and keystone cops against the main cast. So if Maul fought Vader, Maul would get his shots in and then become a blithering idiot for no apparent reason so Vader to cut him down. Or Vader would get the prequel treatment and start flipping and other gravity defying maneuvers with the retcon explanation that he was just taking it easy on Luke because he wanted Luke to join him against the Emperor.
Jimmy Mac of RebelForce Radio pretty much already proved Ashley is the voice of Fulcrum by pitching up the audio.
That’s in the article that I linked to (which I also wrote). It’s just that actual, written proof goes a bit further in confirming the character’s identity.
Just meant that there is pretty much no doubt at this point with all the evidence.
And the pitch change you mentioned was Rebels Report’s version, not Jimmy’s. They acknowledged Jimmy in one of their articles though.
An older Captain Rex would be nice to see.
Nice! Finally lol
What do you mean it’s not a spoiler because it was in the picture?! So if you chose a pic of Ahsoka, you would then NOT consider it a spoiler? What kind of site are you running here?!
Relax, Jason
Palpatine already “showed up” in the form of an image in “Empire Day”. This show takes place in an era where he is still alive, so it’s not really a spoiler to say that he might be showing up. And Darth Vader’s already made an appearance early on – to say that he might return isn’t surprising in the slightest.
Ahsoka’s fate, on the other hand, has been ambiguous ever since The Clone Wars ended. (I would argue that it’s been ambiguous since the series *started*, given that she was not mentioned in Revenge Of The Sith.) Her involvement in the series itself would be a spoiler because Dave Filoni has not made it clear as to what happened to her after she left the Jedi Order, and whenever that information would come out, it would constitute as a spoiler. In addition, Fulcrum’s identity would in itself be a spoiler because it’s a secret. Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine appearing in the era are not.
I did not say that Annie and Sheevy showing up in the above picture makes them no spoiler. What I was saying was something to the effect of “Hey, you know those two guys in the picture above? They’re in the show!” If that wasn’t clear to you, I apologize for your confusion, but with all due respect, I think you might need to chill out.
Thanks for being a voice of reason Pomojema. I mean for God’s sake people. This is entertainment … we should be having fun and civilly discussing things, not at each other’s throats.
“Great news for fans of Rebels, the Original Trilogy, and The Clone Wars: two characters from the movies”
If one thinks really hard, one might remember Palpatine was in the prequels a well. Darth Vader was in ’em too, come to think of it. So this might be great news for fans of those movies as well.
Yeah, I would say so (I’m a Prequel Trilogy fan myself). But as far as the actual characters appearing as we know them, they are much closer in appearance to what they looked like in the Original Trilogy than the Prequel Trilogy. Palpatine was in them a lot more, but he wore a different robe when dueling Yoda, and Darth Vader’s iconic suit was only shown on-screen for about four minutes. That was my reasoning in writing the article that way, anyway.
Fair enough. Keep up the good work.
And here is Vader and I when we arrived on board the Imperial star liner, I never noticed it was named after me until Vader mentioned it. I take him everywhere with me but does he ever lose than so serious face…no not even on a holiday.
Why would Ashoka want to fight the Empire?
Just because she lost her trust in the Jedi, doesn’t mean she will have any love for what the Empire has turned into.
I have kinda hoped Ashoka would have joined forces with her old master and hunt down Jedi. Maybe track down Obi-Wan, who is then forced to kill her to keep the secret of Luke from Vader.
thats a pretty cool arc but a “new” character cannot possibly make it that far into the canonical story and disappear like thin air( even though she was made up much later).
Not mention it’s a CARTOON character….. 🙂
Because the Emperor is an ass.
Am i the only one thinking that the “big” characters within the SW universe are reintroduced way too quickly in Rebels?
Think about it, in the first season we’ve already seen C3P0, R2D2, Tarkin, Yoda (in a sparkly way) and Lando. All on Lothal.
What are the odds of that? It makes the universe look so friggin’ small that way. Atleast spread these character appearances out more on different planets instead of burning through them that quickly! At this rate we will have seen the entire cast by the time they (FINALLY!) leave that dull planet. Everything happens on Lothal, i’m getting tired of it…
If it makes you feel better, I feel like they said something to the effect that they wanted to spend the first season primarily dealing with one planet before going onto many others in subsequent seasons, like in The Clone Wars. I’m getting a little bit of Lothal cabin fever myself, though I feel like the Tarkin episode has made the time invested on re-using that specific planet worth it.
i have said this before, and i restate the question: Why aren’t some clone troopers present? Even at double the advanced aging, that would mean they are only in their 60s-70s…surely someone of Rex’s caliber not only survived this long, but would either be training new cadets, or would have transferred and be in command of a Star Destroyer in this time period.
It could be any number of reasons. Perhaps after Order 66 was all said and done, the clones simply began to feel regretful and even angry that they turned on their Jedi friends. In all their confusion, they probably slowly directed their aggression towards the Empire and Palpatine – as a result, the Empire / Palpatine would have ultimately expelled clones from military service, driving them to disperse across the galaxy.
Maybe there just aren’t any stationed on Lothal.
It has been made ABUNDANTLY clear by the show makers that Stormtroopers were not Clones (Watch some rebels recon and Rebels “Breaking Ranks”) and that the Clones did not commit order 66 by choice but by genetic manipulation, see Clone Wars Season Six Lost Missions
yeah…we are not talking about clones being under the armor, but being in command in their older age and why they aren’t any being shown as such. as far as being regretful, whether by choice or not i imagine some at least would be regretful. is that ABUNDANTLY clear?
When do we get season 1 part 2 of Rebels in the UK????
Hi, we are due to get the rest of ‘Rebels’ season one running on Disney XD on SATURDAY February 21st at 9:00am! : )
AHSOKA
I hope that Ahsoka Tano shows up with 2 associates named Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos.
thats a pretty cool arc but a “new” character cannot possibly make it that far into the canonical story and disappear like thin air( although she was made up much later).
Why not? She left the Jedi order. What did she do after she left, to support herself? I don’t know, maybe she waitressed for a while, maybe she did some adjunct teaching, maybe she drovdrove or worked on a farm. Who knows, or maybe we’ll see. then, when she saw the injustice of the empire, she became a rebel. Nothing inconsistent about that.
Anthony Ingruber PLEEAASE for Han Solo’s voice!!
I don’t get the fuss about his impression. I mean, he did an alright job, but I think most people were sucked in because he LOOKS just like Harrison. The voice, however, wasn’t so close.
I agree…and it LOOKED like an impersonation…a copy…which made it not work for me. Something about it didn’t look natural…like he was trying too hard to be exact, and it came across as “acting” insteal of natural and real.
He’s playing the young Harrison Ford in in ‘Age of Adaline’. Also, let’s not forget those Ford youtube impressions were from 7 or 8 years ago. He’s improved immensely ( as an actor ).
Ross Marquand does an amazing Harrison Ford impression and he recently voiced Han Solo in Phineas & Ferb’s Star Wars special.
He’s also been picked up recently as a live actor for The Walking Dead.
Am I the only one who doesn’t want Han Solo to show up? Especially if it turns out the character contributes ti the overall story/arc. That would degrade the character in A Nee Hope big time, because it takes away thr mystery of that character.
More Han Solo could be nice, but then make it a la the Han Solo trilogy of novels. Self contained stories.
Lobbied. No Han Solo please.
You aren’t the only one. But expect Disney to milk all the big characters big time. It will sure degrade those characters, but you can always choose your own canon and the garbage just left in DU box (Disney Universe) 🙂
Regarding novels, comics, video games and such I agree, just take what you like (like it always used to be).
However, because we’re talking movies here, I think that’s a little harder to do. The movies after all, are the core of Star Wars.
Current Star Wars universe = Sesame Street. “Wow look who it is! Everyone’s related some how!”
I’ve been having the same problem with the SW universe since it turned out that Baby Darth Vader built Threepio. The “small galaxy” thing just kept on rolling from there, and I sure wish they’d get off of that kick. (At least Lucas didn’t end up doing the “young Han Solo raised by Wookiees” thing he was planning for ROTS.)
It WOULD have explained why Han is able to understand the Wookie language, which I suspect would be extremely hard to pick up later in life …
Lando Calrissian himself B.D.Williams told us yesterday he had ‘already recorded alot more for future Rebels episodes’ on whether Finn from TFA was his son he said I probably know more about it than he does. Which is Sad.
Also one of the Lucasfilm artists also confirmed through Disney now. Told me they had 8 people specifically working for them throwing out red herrings on TFA. Won’t give his name but reminded him that I heard the non disclosures expired in Feb….lol Back to Lando- had him sign my old Lando figure on cape. 8×10 I had already signed Jeremy Bulloch and David Prowse…and package of a sealed 90’s figure.
I also got marvel cover artist of #38 SW to do a drawing etc….Here are photos from yesterday for those interested.
Princess Leia original drawing
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img908/3360/nUyJ6Z.jpg
Star Wars #38 cover
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img538/5190/D4fv6X.jpg
My trading card drawing I did of Lando signed.
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img901/8113/wFmBRR.jpg
My childhood Lando figure signed
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img540/3829/PN8uPG.jpg
Us and Billy Dee
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img901/8783/uimIhS.jpg
DEKKA129 February 08, 2015 at 20:40 PM
Did you know that the ‘Vader build C3PO’ thing as wrote way before the prequels?
Read SW SOTME
Lucas did write in-universe backstories, from the point of view of certain characters.
However, I believe it was just a child who built C-3PO, not Vader per se.
Which means there was plenty of time to UNTHINK that.
Not sure how I feel about a Han Solo appearance. But if they do, they’ll probably show him winning the Falcon from Lando.
Pablo Hidalgo said that Lando already lost the ship at this point. It’s why he needed the Ghost crew’s assistance in “Idiot’s Array”.
Oh, gotcha. Thanks.
On one hand Han Solo and Darth Vader appearing in the show is lame and a cash-grab.
But if I were a seven-ten year-old kid and I was watching a Star Wars cartoon, I’d feel ripped off NOT seeing Darth Vader periodically.
Kids need their heroes to pop over sometime to give the show a sort of seal of approval. A way to know that this is indeed Star Wars.
*won’t somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!!!!!*
Don’t mean to exagerrate, but if ya’ll were ten when this show came out, you’d be defending it right now. Just saying…
I don’t like the tieing in, but they kind of have to do it, it comes with the package.
Asokha disguised as Fulcrum could mean that she’s working for Fulcrum and that Fulcrum is more behind the scenes. It suggests that she = Fulcrum, but doesn’t prove it.
Asokha + Bail Organa= Fulcrum maybe?
I read that as “Ahsoka using Fulcrum as an identity”.
I guess it’ll be cool to have her in Rebels, I’m not sure. She always seemed a bit annoying and lame in Clone Wars but maybe that was just because she was a young brat or whatever. Maybe they can portray her as a mature bitch or something in Rebels. I wonder if they’ll age her properly or will they giver her the same weird aging process Obi-wan and Anakin suffered from.
So um IF Asoka is fulcrum why the $*%3 was Kanan looking for a Jedi master for Ezra?…
IF Asoka is Fulcrum this show just got really bad. Not bad meaning good, but bad meaning poorly written. I don’t have anything against Asoka in fact I want to see her in Rebels but not as Fulcrum, not as a plot hole.
How reliable is this french site? Is it like imdb, open to editing?
I don’t think Kanan or Hera knows who Fulcrum actually is.
I’m pretty sure Asoka could ensure she wasn’t found out as a Jedi. Hell, the Emperor can’t even tell that Skywalker had two twins, one growing up IN THE REPUBLIC under one of the more influential senators and one growing up next to Obi-Wan Kenobi!
Why would Asoka hide herself from Kanan and Hera? That makes no sense.
Because the more people know each other, the more they are vulnerable to DARTH VADER, THE EMPEROR AND TARKIN finding out who they are and killing them. Death is bad (contrary to what Yoda says in III, lol).
To paraphrase the obviously immortal Nick Fury: ‘If nobody knows everything, then’s its safe.’ [or something along that order].
I wonder if Aaron Paul is going to voice Han Solo…
Wild guess but what if Fulcrum is Markus?
You do need someone on the inside close to all the bosses.
Ok Ahsoka is a really great inclusion but question: Will she know this Darth Vader guy taking out Jedi for the Empire is Anakin? I mean, there’s no reason for her to know really (given Organa doesn’t know and she hasn’t mingled with Obi-Wan or Yoda post ROTS) and dramatically her finding out over the course of Rebels could be quite the story arc right? From her certain point of view Darth Vader hunted and killed the Jedi for the Emperor. Pretty solid reason to get involved with a Rebellion if you were Ahsoka right?
“Ahsoka I am your Master!”…
“No, thats not true. Thats impossible”
Even if she knew Anakin went Dark Side via Organa’s knowledge of the events, that’s still no reason that she would then know he went on to become Darth Vader. In fact, if she’s going on Organa’s version of events Obi-Wan killed Anakin. I think Anakin being corrupted by the Emperor is more than enough of a reason for Ahsoka to get involved with a Rebellion. Finding out he’s Vader will just add that extra sucker punch for Rebels to deliver.
Even if she knew Anakin went Dark Side via Organa’s knowledge of the events, that’s still no reason that she would then know he went on to become Darth Vader. I think Anakin being corrupted by the Emperor is still enough of a reason for Ahsoka to get involved with a Rebellion.
Anthony Ingruber for voice Han Solo.
D.V.: Ahsoka Tano, it’s been a long time, hasn’t it?
A.T.:(eyes narrow) Do I know you?
D.V.: Could you forget about me so easily… Snips?
A.T.: (eyes widen, gasps) No! You?