Every upcoming Star Wars movie and show, ranked by hype

6. Tales of the Jedi

Disney announced another new series at the most recent Star Wars Celebration: Tales of the Jedi, an anthology series that will follow the adventures of various Jedi from the franchise’s past. We even know of several who will show up, including Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, Ponda Baba, Count Dooku and Qui-Gon Jinn. The latter will be voiced by Liam Neeson, who up until recently had been saying he’d only return to his Phantom Menace role if it were for a proper movie. He is a fine soldier for Disney.

And yes, I said “voiced by.” Tales of the Jedi will be an animated series, not a live-action one; that should make things more reasonable when it comes to programming the adventures of various Jedi separated by vast oceans of time and space. That flexibility also extends to the tone, as Star Wars head honcho Dave Filoni explained:

"We had a fun time, but these aren’t just fun, happy stories. It gets rough at times,. You wouldn’t be happy unless you overcome something possibly tragic along the way. Some of these are dark. Some of these I watched later and was like, ‘Wow, what was I doing?’ And I was in lockdown like everyone else, so that explains that. But this Dooku one, which I don’t know if you know, doesn’t end up so good for him, I was like, ‘This is surprisingly tragic.’"

Anakin Skywalker’s one-time padawan Ahsoka Tano will also feature in several of the episodes, but we’ll talk more about her later.

As for Tales of the Jedi, we don’t have a release date for it yet. But if it’s Star Wars animated action you want, there’s plenty of it coming round the corner. – Dan