Dave Filoni Reveals New Sketch Teasing ‘Ahsoka’ Season 2
Ahsoka will officially be returning for a second season, Lucasfilm has formally announced – and now, a new illustration has indicated where the story is headed.
The renewal was pretty much inevitable, considering how much of the future of Star Wars storytelling in the New Republic era hinges on this show and showrunner Dave Filoni’s recent appointment as Chief Creative Officer at the company. While previously mentioned in the fine print of a report confirming that Jon Favreau would be taking The Mandalorian and Grogu to the big screen, Lucasfilm took today to make a clearer announcement for the show’s second season, complete with a new sketch from Dave Filoni showing where the series might go now that the title character has been left to explore Peridea with her Padawan Sabine Wren:
The story continues.
Ahsoka Season 2 now in development with Dave Filoni. pic.twitter.com/cqgt1phU3P
— Star Wars (@starwars) January 10, 2024
There was some speculation that the show was not formally greenlit yet but was merely “in development”, but this update suggests that Lucasfilm is all-in on continuing the series. Trade stories from earlier this year suggested that a second season would depend on the show’s numbers on Disney Plus, a line that echoed 2020’s reports about Ahsoka’s involvement in The Mandalorian season 2 being treated by Lucasfilm as a test for the character’s own series. Just a few days after that episode aired, Kathleen Kennedy announced the show was officially in the works, which suggested everyone at the company was bullish on the episode and the subsequent spin-off series even before Chapter 13 aired.
The same applies here, but on a bigger scale. A storyline seemed to be in place for the new season of Ahsoka (something that Rosario Dawson even confirmed herself to Vanity Fair), so unless the numbers were disastrous, Dave Filoni would be given another batch of episodes to continue his story. With this, he and the entire audience will get ready for the climactic theatrical event that will culminate the storyline of all of these shows, including The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and supposedly Skeleton Crew, which also has larger-universe tie-ins.
With the WGA strike now over, Filoni has a green light to start typing away his next scripts, which depending on when the “Go” was given by the studio, could even fall under the previous WGA contract. Either way, if Filoni wants to write all of them by himself, he is allowed to do so. (Under the new contract, though, if he wants to bring just one other writer, he will immediately be forced to hire four more scribes for the writers’ room if the second season is also eight episodes long.)
No date has been set for either the second season of Ahsoka (which would hit in 2025 at the earliest) or Dave Filoni’s Star Wars movie – since Disney has reserved two 2026 dates for Star Wars, it seems reasonable to expect The Mandalorian and Grogu then. Although pushing the December 2026 date to May 2027 and having it come out on the 50th anniversary of Star Wars doesn’t seem like the craziest idea either, or using the already-reserved December 2027 date for Filoni’s big event.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as movies from Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
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