Ahsoka: Co-creator Dave Filoni Provides An Update On The Star Wars Disney+ Series

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Ahsoka Disney+ series is only one of the several Star Wars projects that are set to debut exclusively on the streamer. Played by Rosario Dawson, the live-action incarnation of Ahsoka Tano debuted in the second season of The Mandalorian, and in December 2020, the spin-off show was officially announced, with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau serving as showrunners.

The show is currently in pre-production, and filming is expected to start next year. Rosario Dawson will reprise the titular role, and Hayden Christensen is returning as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, the role he will also portray in the upcoming Obi-Wan series, in which Ewan McGregor returns as the titular character. It was recently announced that Natasha Liu Bordizzo joined the cast as Sabine Wren.

Now, here’s what co-creator Dave Filoni had to say about the upcoming show:

“It’s thrilling, I gotta tell you. It’s something you imagine doing for a long time. And then it’s kind of startling when you’re sitting there, and now you have to do it.”

“I thought of this adventure for Ahsoka for a long time, and it’s interesting to see how it’s evolved. Years ago, I never would have imagined that it was sprung from a branch of a tree that had anything to do with a guy [like] Din Djarin, or a child that looks like Yoda. It’s a great lesson for me on how, when you have other creatives like Jon Favreau, they can help lend such dimension and depth to what you’re doing.”

Dave Filoni for Empire

Ahsoka Disney+ series still has no official premiere date, but considering that filming still hasn’t started, it will be a long wait.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.