Dave Filoni talks writing the Ahsoka Tano series: “It’s thrilling”
By Dan Selcke
Ahsoka Tano is finally getting her own live-action Star Wars TV show! We now know who’s playing Sabine Wren. Can Thrawn and Ezra Bridger be far behind?
After the success of The Mandalorian, Disney got down to business planning several other Star Wars TV shows. The Book of Boba Fett comes out next month, there’s one about Obi-Wan Kenobi, one set in the distant past called The Acolyte, and one about Ahsoka Tano, the young Jedi introduced in animated form in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and finally brought to life by Rosario Dawson in The Mandalorian season 2.
Ahsoka has been a fan favorite for years, so it was only natural that longtime Star Wars TV producer Dave Filoni would want to bring her into live action. When last we checked in on her, she was hunting for Grand Admiral Thrawn, an antagonist from the animated series Star Wars Rebels. Will her own live-action miniseries bring her back into contact with him?
“It’s thrilling, I gotta tell you,” Filoni told Empire about writing the show. “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."
Filoni is bringing some of Ahsoka’s animated compatriots into live-action as well. Deadline reports that Natasha Liu Bordizzo will join the new series as Sabine Wren, a Mandalorian warrior last seen setting out with Ahsoka at the end of Star Wars Rebels to look for their friend Ezra Bridger. We can probably expect casting announcements for Bridger and Thrawn before too long.
There’s no release date for the Ahsoka Tano show as yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it premiered sometime next year. And there will be plenty of Star Wars TV to enjoy in the meantime.
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