Star Wars Rebels: Thrawn Explained, Two New Clips.

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Integrating Grand Admiral Thrawn into Star Wars Canon after Legends was deemed an alternate continuity is absolutely a big deal to the fans. Along with an article featuring a brief interview with series creator Dave Filoni, Entertainment Weekly has just released a new clip showing Thrawn encountering Hera in disguise.

 

From Entertainment Weekly:

Filoni says this speaks to why Thrawn remains such a compelling bad guy. “He really stuck out because he was through and through an Imperial officer. He was not facing doubt, he didn’t have these abilities that make all the big arch villains up to that point arch. He wasn’t inept so much like Piett, he wasn’t playing politics like the rest of the Imperial officers, he was purely a military strategist.”

Also, he had savoir faire. Sophistication. He was like a Bond villain in a Star Wars movie. “His love of art, his study of that was something that really stuck with me,” Filoni says. “That’s really smart because he is getting to the root and tendencies of people, and I never heard of anybody attacking it that way. He stars to remind you of people like Patton, very into history and poetry.”

“I needed an actor that could bring this kind of marvelous intellect and I wanted a voice that wasn’t just another British officer,” Filoni says. “He’s this really evil character that is just dripping with intellect and you’re like, ‘Wow, he’s going to see right through me.’ But Lars [Mikkelsen] couldn’t be a more fun, happy guy to be involved with Star Wars. He’s so excited about it and he will do it again and again, and he wants to get it right. I love that in an actor, when there’s that enthusiasm.”

The full interview can be read on EW’s website. Here’s the clip showing Hera’s infiltration intercepted by Thrawn:

 

 

 

 

And here’s yet another new Rebels video shared by Disney XD (via our buddy Alex):

 

 


 

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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.

13 thoughts on “Star Wars Rebels: Thrawn Explained, Two New Clips.

  • September 21, 2016 at 11:02 pm
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    Ooh, Ezra’s wearing a Biker Scout outfit.

    • September 22, 2016 at 12:33 am
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      Awesome, eh? They were always my favourite of the imperial armour types as a kid.

      • September 22, 2016 at 10:33 pm
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        You must be excited for the new Shore Troopers then. They have that sort of look.

  • September 21, 2016 at 11:48 pm
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    I’m 100% confident in saying that a big part of the action happens in Lessu, the capital of Ryloth, and that’s cool. But also, wonderful, there will be at least one other episode on Lothal.

  • September 22, 2016 at 12:07 am
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    Love the mix between PT and OT imagery, that’s Star Wars in all it’s splendor, love that!
    I would like to see an “old” Eta-2 fighter in post-clone or post-empire era…

    • September 22, 2016 at 12:36 am
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      While I’ll never be as much of a fan of the PT as OT, the bridging that this trailer suggests is welcome and long overdue. Battle Droids with classic Troopers, AT-DTs mixed in with ROTJ-style Speeder Bikes and that AT-AT clip at 00:30 is very reminiscent of ‘that scene’ in the first Rogue One trailer.

      Good work Disney/Lucasfilm peeps!

  • September 22, 2016 at 1:04 am
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    Cool imagery. I hope they don’t go too nuts with the holocron stuff.

  • September 22, 2016 at 1:05 am
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    They may start working in Rogue One stuff… especially as we get closer to the release date and especially later in the season after the movie comes out.

    • September 22, 2016 at 1:15 am
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      Maybe. I think the Rebels timeline is still about a year away from the R1 timeline.

      • September 22, 2016 at 10:32 pm
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        I think I hear we are 2 years away now… too close for my liking given the amount of Force users running around considering ANH made it clear Vader was the last of his kind for some time now. I also don’t think many people realized the Emperor was a Force User, either. But I digress.

        More to my point, they can work in characters, planets, ships, other stuff we see in Rogue one. I didn’t mean a direct tie in leading to the events of Rogue one.

  • September 22, 2016 at 1:12 pm
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    Darktrooper project at 0:12 ??

    • September 23, 2016 at 1:29 pm
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      Yeah. Odd thing to make canon but cool non-the-less.

  • September 23, 2016 at 3:02 pm
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    If Ezra or Kanan end up being the ones to kill Maul, then Dave filoni completely fucked up his legacy. Would be a huge mistake, Maul deserves better than that.

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