For this writer, I'm glad to see them pushed out. But as Filoni puts it, "continuity puts you in chains sometimes" so he's hesitant to talk about whether or not fans will see more Inquisitors. If Star Wars Rebels was its own standalone thing, not a part of the film canon, but a Legends-branded tale like the old Extended Universe novels and game stories, the Inquisitors could live on and their lore explored more. Philip, he did a great job as the Inquisitor, but his number was up. You never really enjoy this when it happens, taking out these characters, but it was right for the story. She was like, “Ah, you’re taking me out,” and I was like, “Yeah… Sorry!” I felt bad, because she was really enjoying portraying that character. Still, they were interesting characters that I know a lot of people were getting into. It was something we had to do, and we had to do it kind of quickly. You know, you don’t see these guys in A New Hope, either, so I had to start eliminating them. The show would be contradicting the story needs of the Anthology movies - and potentially, the larger Star Wars universe - otherwise.ĭave Filoni on the "we had to do it" death of the Inquisitors: These game-changing plot happenings of the season 2 finale of Rebels, as Filoni tells IGN, needed to happen. The two familiar Inquisitors of the episode, and a third new one, were all killed off in this week's episode, and Ahsoka Tano's (the apprentice of Anakin Skywalker) fate is left up in the air as she's seemingly written out of the show. Even Darth Maul, who made a return appearance, ran off on his own by the end. There are no Jedi in Rogue One although Darth Vader will play a role. This is a problem for Star Wars Rebels - which literally featured eight (8!) force-using, lightsaber-wielding characters in its season 2 finale, in an era where the Rebellion is growing against the Empire, an era where we've always been told these characters didn't exist, and it's something the Star Wars Rebels season 2 finale seemingly made a concerted effort to partially address.
And in Rogue One, Edwards explicitly announced at Celebration that "it's set in an era where there are no Jedi, or they're but extinct." He continued, "it comes down to a group of people who don’t have magical powers who band together to bring hope to the galaxy." And outside of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, no other surviving Jedi have been mentioned either. In the movies, there are no Jedi-hunting Inquisitors, let alone a mention of them. Making Star Wars Rebels Fit The Sagaīut Rebels also includes characters, designs, and ideas that arguably don't fully mesh with the movies - things that never appear in films or at first glance, don't seem like they ever could. It's another type of Star Wars story within the larger film universe but one that's stylistically and aesthetically different.
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When showrunners and executive producers Dave Filoni, Greg Weisman, and Simon Kinberg first began discussing Rebels as a followup series to Clone Wars, it was described as another story in the Star Wars universe that could offer something for all audiences. It's a little different than Clone Wars but those fans will find a lot of familiarity, and for old school saga fans, the show would be exploring iconic elements of the original trilogy too. So, for them to fit together and for Star Wars Rebels to actually feel as if it's a legitimate piece of the canon, changes needed to be made. What that series depicts and how - even though the series is in-canon - is very different from what the films do, especially with what's planned for Rogue One. Disney XD's successful Star Wars Rebels animated series has been exploring the origins of the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire for two seasons, the second concluding this week. It takes place between the events of the original and prequel trilogies, but closer to the film that started it all ( Episode IV - A New Hope).įor consumers of all things Star Wars, stories about the young Rebel Alliance are nothing new. Rogue One is directed by Gareth Edwards ( Godzilla) and tells the tale of the young Rebel Alliance stealing plans for the first Death Star.
At the time, these spinoffs were going to be labeled as "Anthology" movies but they've since been re-branded as "Star Wars Stories," and the first of them opens in theaters this December, titled Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. At Star Wars Celebration 2015 in Anaheim, California a year ago, Lucasfilm unveiled concept art and story details for the first non-episodic Star Wars spinoff film - a concept Disney and Lucasfilm execs had been teasing ever since Disney acquired Lucasfilm.
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