Future STAR WARS REBELS Episodes Could Feed into Future Movies
It’s always fun to watch Star Wars Rebels and see it cross over with storylines and characters from the films that we all grew up with. According to to producer Simon Kinberg, we might be seeing more of that in season three, and some of those elements could end up connecting to future Star Wars movies. While talking to Moviefone, Kinberg teased:
“What’s lovely is, obviously, we’ve brought in characters from Clone Wars in the second season, and we keep sort of bringing characters from the original movies and sort of deepening the relationships between our core characters, the Ghost crew. So it’s trying to balance the two different things, like the original cast from the first season with Clone Wars, with characters from the original movies, and maybe even feeding into future movies.”
It’s pretty exciting to hear him say that some of the things that are coming up could feed into the future films. He obviously didn’t go into any detail on what that might be, but seeing certain characters crossover is a strong possibility. After all, the character Saw Gerrera from The Clone Wars is appearing in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and he’s being played by Forest freakin’ Whitaker.
I guess fans will have to keep a look out while watching these upcoming Star Wars movies because you never know when something might pop up that you’ll recognize from the animated series. Who knows, some of the unknown characters being played by actors like Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro could eventually appear in Rebels. We'll just have to wait and see how it all plays out.
We'll learn more about Star Wars Rebels season three when Lucasfilm shows it off at Star Wars Celebration London in a few weeks. A trailer and premiere date are expected to be released and announced then.