Kevin Kiner Has Finished Scoring The Last Few Episodes Of Star Wars Rebels

Star Wars Rebels is nearing its end, and while we still don’t have a return date for the series, Dave Filoni has given us an important status update regarding the production of the series – the score for the remaining few episodes have been completed.

 

 

Filoni has just revealed that Kiner has wrapped up work on the show’s score. More than that, however, is the revelation that at least part of the score will be done with a live orchestra:

 

 

 

This signifies that post-production on the last few episodes of the series is almost complete. There are still no air dates for “Allegiance”, “One Giant Step Ahead”, “Call Of The Spectre”, and the other 4 episodes that will be released after the show returns. The earliest that Rebels could return would be late this month (like what happened with Season 2) – but no matter the when the mid-season premiere happens, the series will presumably wrap up before Solo: A Star Wars Story hits theaters, which gives them plenty of time to figure out how the last 7 episodes are going to be scheduled. We might even go back to the “one per week” format that we saw prior to the first half of this season.

 

 

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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.

57 thoughts on “Kevin Kiner Has Finished Scoring The Last Few Episodes Of Star Wars Rebels

  • January 7, 2018 at 7:10 pm
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    It’s like a little Star Wars movie production with live orchestra etc. Which makes me wonder what Dave Filoni’s next move will be…….

    Personally I’m hoping for a live action TV show. If he’s heading it, I’d have more faith in that than the trilogy series at the moment !

    • January 8, 2018 at 1:38 pm
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      I’d love to see him write and direct one of the anthology films.

  • January 7, 2018 at 7:13 pm
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    I know they performed with real orchestra only TCW’s final Ahsoka’s theme, not informed on how did they score Rebels.

    Also, good. When do we adtually get the episodes though?

  • January 7, 2018 at 7:16 pm
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    It would be nice if some of these characters transitioned to the Big Screen, maybe in a Obi-Wan Movie?

  • January 7, 2018 at 7:49 pm
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    Are they also going to officially release that score?

    • January 7, 2018 at 8:07 pm
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      That reminds me, we still haven’t got the Season 3 soundtrack.

      I want a proper full release of Thrawn’s theme so much!

      • January 7, 2018 at 8:31 pm
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        Didn’t know that existed, looked it up on YT – they caught his character perfectly in the music!

        • January 8, 2018 at 1:15 am
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          Indeed it does. Plus I’m a sucker for some good organ-based themes.

      • January 7, 2018 at 8:35 pm
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        Thrawn theme is on youtube

        • January 8, 2018 at 1:03 am
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          True, but nothing beats an official release for sound quality. Plus I want to support Kiner’s work if possible.

    • January 8, 2018 at 6:31 am
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      The mid-season finale was so underwhelming… I think the existence of the series hasn’t even crossed my mind since I finished that last episode. And that’s coming from someone who has overall enjoyed the series.

    • January 8, 2018 at 6:31 am
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      The mid-season finale was so underwhelming… I think the existence of the series hasn’t even crossed my mind since I finished that last episode. And that’s coming from someone who has overall enjoyed the series.

      • January 8, 2018 at 6:45 am
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        ditto. if this wasn’t the last season i’d probably have stopped watching already, but i’ve come this far, might as well see it through.

  • January 7, 2018 at 11:25 pm
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    There has been a few good episodes especially when we now have x wings and the maul / Ashoka finale. But why do they all constantly resist giving us more of the good stuff? Same in clone wars etc.. most people could reel off a list of things which would be great but instead we constantly get drawn out filler episodes.
    E.g. would like;
    Complete arcs, they get so drawn out and ambiguous we forget what’s they were and tired of them.
    The underworld
    Black sun
    Bounty hunters
    The Hutts
    Imperial battles
    Jedi and sith artifacts
    Just Star Wars stuff!

    • January 7, 2018 at 11:38 pm
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      whatever happened to the inquisitors? i remember buffy saying in season two that she and the meathead she worked with were part of larger group that were hunting kanan and ezra. but after season two that plot line was completely dropped. did i miss something?

      • January 7, 2018 at 11:58 pm
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        There is a comix explaining how they form the group, so i dont know if they will explain also what happens to them after.

      • January 8, 2018 at 3:30 am
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        Rebels has a weird thing with dropped plot lines. They set up Ezra turning to the Dark side and then took the Sith Holocron away from him and forgot all about it. Freddie Prinze Jr. (voice of Kanan) said that the series would probably go for up to six or seven seasons, so it sounds to me like Disney canceled the series and told Dave Filon and co. about it early so that they could hurry and wrap things up.

        • January 8, 2018 at 6:01 am
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          plus they completely forgot about ahsoka and vader as well. the season two finale seems like the great dividing line of the show. up to that point it seemed like they had preexisting idea of where the show was headed. but afterwards it went in a different direction in which most of what was built in the first two seasons was quietly dropped. this might be disney cutting it off at the knees or maybe filoni leaving to work on the new show or maybe some combo of the two.

          • January 8, 2018 at 6:19 am
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            Probably both. Disney alerted them that a cancellation was imminent so they hurried and finished the series and sent Dave Filoni to work on the next series. That’s what I’d assume, anyway.

            EDIT: Also, you can kind of notice it in the pacing the series now. In earlier seasons they had a full episode designated to the origins of the B-Wing and a full episode for the retrieval of the Y-Wings and Hammerheads used by the Rebels in Rogue One. And yet, the X-wings get completely glossed over in Season 4; they literally just appear in an episode with no explanation. Why? Because Filoni and the crew have to hurry and tie up all loose ends. It’s the same reason that Maul’s quest to destroy the Sith suddenly disappeared; they didn’t even have time to tell that story. Part of me feels bad, but the other part of me feels like they would have been able to tell all the story they wanted if they had skipped the fucking Singing Droid Filler episodes.

        • January 9, 2018 at 7:56 pm
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          Agree. Everything seems so circular in Rebels. Kanan is blinded… but he can still see just fine. Ezra goes to the dark side but he still ends up the same old goody Ezra. Sabine must leave to help her family for honor… but she’s back!

          • January 9, 2018 at 9:21 pm
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            Yep. They can’t commit to any of their big “twists”. Maul is back…but his motivations have changed suddenly and now he’s dead. When the Clone Wars did something to its original characters, it committed. Ahsoka never returned to the Jedi Order. Maul got an arc. Rebels is just too afraid to really change its own status quo.

          • January 10, 2018 at 9:37 pm
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            Which is why I grew tired of watching this show. No real consequences, no real “twists.” I’m looking out for the Luke Skywalker show post VI that I hope to god they’re working on.

      • January 8, 2018 at 10:42 am
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        I remember there was an interview, where they stated that Kenan and Ezra over time became stronger than the Inquisitors, that’s why they killed three of them. We do not know, what happened to the other (five?). But it is more likely that Vader will handle Kenan and Ezra himself, as he did at the end of season one.

      • January 8, 2018 at 1:54 pm
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        One of them is already dead, having been killed by Ahsoka before the events of the series (in the book ‘Ahsoka’). It’s his kyber crystals she purifies to get the white-bladed lightsabers we see in ‘Rebels’. The others’ fate remains a mystery at this point.

      • January 8, 2018 at 1:54 pm
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        One of them is already dead, having been killed by Ahsoka before the events of the series (in the book ‘Ahsoka’). It’s his kyber crystals she purifies to get the white-bladed lightsabers we see in ‘Rebels’. The others’ fate remains a mystery at this point.

  • January 8, 2018 at 12:00 am
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    Wondering when do we get release date for Rebels. Was thinking they will start right after holidays, but am surprised now that is not starting and we even don know when it will continue.

  • January 8, 2018 at 1:14 am
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    Is it possible to get the Clone Wars story reels on DVD and/or Blu Ray?

    • January 8, 2018 at 3:28 am
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      They’re free on Starwars.com and they’ve been uploaded to YouTube in full quality.

    • January 8, 2018 at 3:28 am
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      They’re free on Starwars.com and they’ve been uploaded to YouTube in full quality.

      • January 8, 2018 at 8:18 pm
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        Yes, but I ‘d like to have an official DVD.

      • January 8, 2018 at 8:18 pm
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        Yes, but I ‘d like to have an official DVD.

    • January 8, 2018 at 2:20 pm
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      Like TUD said below, youtube or starwars.com is your best bet to check them all out. However, I own the Clone Wars: The Lost Missions (Season 6) Blu Ray and the four-part “Utapau” story reel is included with it. No “Bad Batch” arc though.

      • January 8, 2018 at 8:18 pm
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        Okay, I own that as well, just haven’t dived into it yet. I wish I could get the Bad Batch on DVD.

        It’s really too bad that they never continued to finish the various story arcs with straight-to-DVD movies at least.

    • January 8, 2018 at 10:57 pm
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      Not from a jedi.

      • January 8, 2018 at 11:01 pm
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        Brilliant! lol

  • January 8, 2018 at 9:33 pm
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    It seems we’re getting closer to the end of the intermission since november; shouldn’t be long until we at least see a trailer for second half of the final season of the show.

  • January 9, 2018 at 7:52 pm
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    I wonder when they will be announcing the next animated tv show….

  • January 9, 2018 at 7:52 pm
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    I wonder when they will be announcing the next animated tv show….

  • January 9, 2018 at 9:41 pm
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    I really enjoyed Clone Wars, but never watched Rebels after the first few episodes. The Sabine character was just way too silly for me.

    How did it turn out? Would this be worth revisiting? How does it compare to The Clone Wars?

  • January 10, 2018 at 5:00 pm
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    Super excited

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