Executive producer Greg Weisman has today unveiled new details on Disney XD's upcoming science-fiction TV show Star Wars: Rebels. The latest animated project from the Clone Wars team will take place between the narratives of 2005's Revenge of the Sith and 1977's A New Hope, chronicling the creation of the Rebel Alliance and their first momentous battles against the Galactic Empire.
We'll see Rebels première in the Summer on Disney Channel with a feature-length episode ahead of a full season of thirty-minute instalments on Disney XD later in the year, but it seems that the production team have extensive plans for its future and its central plot arc. Here's what Weisman had to say (speaking to IGN) on the programme's premise and its intended trajectory:
- ON REBELS' TARGET AUDIENCE- "We're all very dedicated, and we know this show is going to be canon, so we take that responsibility very seriously. We know that on the one hand there's an audience who's going to be watching this that knows everything there is to know about Lucasfilm canon and knows beyond that tons of stuff from the Expanded Universe, which may or may not turn out to be canon once Lucasfilm decides what is official and what's not [in the ongoing production process of Episode VII]. So we want the show to work for that group, the most extreme fanboys out there. At the same time, we also have the responsibility that a certain generation of kids, this is going to be their first exposure to Star Wars. By the time this comes out next fall, their kids were young enough that they won't have seen Clone Wars. Forget the movies, they won't have seen Clone Wars! So this will be the first Star Wars thing they're seeing, and we take that responsibility very seriously as well."
- ON THE SERIES' OVERALL NARRATIVE ARC- "There actually is an endgame to Star Wars: Rebels, because this is about a finite period of time between Episodes III and IV. It starts about 14 and a half years after the end of Episode III and about 4 or 5 years before Episode IV. This is about how the Rebel Alliance came to be. So once the Rebel Alliance is, that's pretty much where the show ends. I don't know how many seasons that is. But if all goes well, that's the goal: we go from the origins of the Rebel Alliance to the point where the Rebel Alliance is, which would lead in essence directly into A New Hope."
Star Wars: Rebels débuts on Disney Channel this Summer and its first season airs on Disney XD this Autumn.
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