UPDATE! First Two Episodes of Star Wars: Rebels Season 3 to Be Screened at Celebration Europe and More
Earlier today we shared a tweet in our Weekly Social Buzz article with this news. It appears that it was accidentally posted earlier on some of the international Star Wars sites and it was taken down. Now comes the full press release, officially released by Disney and Lucasfilm…
Still recovering from the epic Star Wars Rebels Season 2 finale? Feel like you have more questions than answers about what the future holds for the crew of the Ghost? Fear not! Star Wars Rebels Executive Producer and Supervising Director Dave Filoni is headed to Star Wars Celebration Europe in London this July. Filoni (and special guests) will share highly guarded sneak peeks at what’s to come in Star Wars Rebels season 3 including a screening of the first two episodes!
A long-time Star Wars fan himself, Filoni’s direction has added depth and resonance to the universe and characters with the critically acclaimed Star Wars: The Clone Wars and the Rebels animated series. Fans at Celebration are in for great programming, and some unforgettable Q&A sessions, whenever Filoni takes the stage.
Don’t miss Star Wars Rebels at Celebration Europe!
That’s great news for all attendees of the highly anticipated Star Wars event taking place in London from July 15-17.
In the past Filoni teased that they have found a way to bring a fan favorite character in season 3. Do you think we will see that character in the first two episodes? Or maybe they will keep the surprise for a later time? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
UPDATE!
And here’s another hint about this Legends character from Dave himself:
I’m looking forward to seeing you all at #SWCE 2016! And remember, there’s always a bit of truth in legends. pic.twitter.com/auc6HDDAx1
— Dave Filoni (@dave_filoni) May 28, 2016
POTENTIAL SPOILERS
As rory lustermans pointed out in the comments, the picture that Filoni used in his tweet does look like it’s from Heir to the Jedi. The first two name that come to mind from Timothy Zahn’s trilogy are Admiral Thrawn and Mara Jade. Making Mara Jade canon would be very hard, considering her relationship with Luke. Thrawn looks like a much more plausible candidate. And this would also match with Making Star Wars’ rumor from a few months ago that Thrawn will make an appearance in Rebels. Makes perfect sense, right? 🙂
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If I had to go to a convention it would be SW Celebration.
I was able to attend Anaheim last year and it was an amazing experience.
I am going to Orlando next year. Super happy.
Cool. I hope you have fun.
I went to Anaheim Celebration and it was pretty fun.
However, I think I would have enjoyed Comic-Con even more because the TFA panel seemed amazing and they got Harrison Ford there. The TFA panel in Anaheim was great though too, and I’ll never forget it because I saw the trailer live for the first time with everybody in the building going nuts.
Comic-Con you get more variety in material to where it’s not purely just Star Wars stuff, which even though you might like just the Star Wars stuff, you’ll be around people who just like star Wars stuff too and that’s kind of limiting.
It’s the point though. Star Wars stuff.
I’d recommend getting to a Celebration. They are an amazing good time. I won’t be able to make it back to London for the next show, but I’ll be heading to Orlando next year.
Is it going to just one showing? Or is it repeated over the whole weekend?
I want to go SO BAD!
Sorry, but you’re just going to have to hold it a bit longer.
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Sounds fun; looks like SWC Europe is getting a taste of Season 3 early. ^_^
too bad that by the time I was going to buy tickets they were sold… and I don’t live too far…
The cover of the book seen in Filoni’s tweet is from Heir to an Empire! I’m hyping for Thrawn!
Can you give me a link to that cover? I can’t seem to find one that looks like the picture.
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/SRYAAOSwA4dWN2~A/s-l300.jpg
It’s the top one, the paper flip cover has been taken off!
It’s obviously Ghent. I mean, come on!
😉
And/or Mara Jade. I hope it’s Thrawn, though. I really do think Thrawn will be in Ep 8, too.
OMG, Dave Filoni is coming to Celebration! Was there ever any doubt that he wouldn’t?
Filoni…..blahhhh
Please don’t be Thrawn.
Save Thrawn for Episode 10.
I think they should keep Thrawn in legends. No point ripping of books they already decided should go.
I don’t understand this sentiment at all.
Fortunately I have a video that explains my position completely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Ufm6frINI
Cry about it.
Yeah. I don’t get it. The whole point of Legends is that they can integrate pieces of the old while creating the new. It’s in the name. Legends are often half-true. I think it’s really cool what they’re doing with Legends. We can still get some of our favorite characters, events, technology, etc. from the EU while still being surprised by how they are used in new stories. I am much less comfortable with the “alternate reality” model of Legends vs. Canon, especially since Legends isn’t really a consistent universe anyway. It just feels better, IMO, if some of those old EU stories we read were half true, oral histories and now we’re getting the “real” story.
interesting video…certainly agree with the thought process. But, of course being a EU fan…I think they could have mainstreamed the great ideas from the original EU into film and brought in a lot of new fans and kept the continuity that had been established for 35 years. I think the future of SW is in the Old Republic…they have a whole playground to set up with no issues and can be as original as they want (if they want to even be original)
They won’t. But let’s hold on to hope. 😉
That’s a really nice Commander Wolfe helmet that Filoni is holding . Hoping we might see Boba Fett in the new season, but as far as Thrawn why not I suppose , would be silly though for his character to die though in Rebels considerng when the books take place even though they aren’t canon. Dark Empire and the Thrawn triology are what renewed interest in Star Wars back in the early 90’s.
I highly doubt they kill him off in Rebels. In fact, I’m pretty sure Chuck Wendig is putting him in his trilogy. He has some mysterious Grand Admiral running around with a taste for fine art. Who else could it be?
I have doubts in this being an heir to an empire. It makes a lot of sense that it would be an old republic book, especially with the holocron in Ezra’s possession. “Bringing in” a legends character could simply be mentioning a character in a story told through the holocron in a single episode.
THRAWN! THRAWN! OMG IT’S GONNA BE THRAWN!
My life finally has a purpose.
Your life’s purpose was to watch a Star Wars cartoon with the most over-rated EU character yet devised? Hmmm. Well, I supposed it beats “Finally, Ädmiral Daaaaaaala…(aa?) in a Star Wars cartoon show! My life finally has a purpose!”
Yes.
TUD gets it. An on-screen Thrawn has been my dream since my early teen years reading Heir to the Empire.
cartoon Thrawn is lackluster, especially coming from Filoni imo. He should definitely be in Rogue one….
Let’s see him first before we call him lackluster. That said, he deserves a film presence and Rogue One would have been perfect. Oh well… I still have hope he’s in Ep 8.
You know, while I read them as they came out and enjoyed them, I never felt a need to see a live-action Thrawn movie.
Dude, and I say this as an anonymoose poster on a SW internet site, you need to go outside and play more.
What are this “outside” that you are spoken of right now?
Waaaaaait a sec….possibility no one has brought up. Fledgling Rebellion, in desperate need of supplies and intel?
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Talon Karde.
Love Thrawn, but also loved Talon Karrde. I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for either or both. Benito would make a good Karrde in EP8 but not sure on that one hehe
I thought of that, too. It very well could be any and/or all of the aforementioned characters. I still think it’s Thrawn or Jade based on Filoni’s past comments on it. He said something to the effect that he didn’t know if they were going to be able to figure it out at first, but found a way to include this character more recently. That sounds like either (1) Mara Jade because of the whole “married to Luke” thing, or (2) Thrawn, because they didn’t know if he was being used for Ep 8. Karde seems like he would be much easier to throw into Rebels without any consequences. Who knows?
How can we assume that the STAR WARS logo is from that specific book? It could be from any old legends novel without the slipcover on it. Unless those books have been confirmed to indeed be Dave Filoni’s set of the Thrawn Trilogy, I see no reason to believe that the logo is from Heir to the Jedi. Just playing Devil’s advocate here =)