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A spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created for the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (voiced by Ashley Eckstein), and made her live-action debut in the second season of The Mandalorian. Ahsoka is a Lucasfilm / Disney+ series created by Dave Filoni, developed by Filoni and Jon Favreau. The series is also written by Dave Filoni, who is also directing multiple episodes, including the first, with Peter Ramsey also directing at least one episode. Executive producer by Carrie Beck, Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Kathleen Kennedy. Made by Lucasfilm, filmed in Los Angeles under the working title Stormcrow, with Eric Steelberg and Quyen Tran as cinematographers. (courtesy First Showing)
My enduring love affairs with the Star Wars universe began in a small one-room cinema in the coastal town of Ballina on the Far North Coast of NSW (Australia) way back in 1977 and it is kept alive by series such as Ahsoka which is due to hit our streaming screens later in the year.
It’s exciting to see this character, whom I first encountered on The Mandalorian – and no, I have not yet had the time to watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars (too much content, too little time alas) – get her own show, and much deserved too because Rosario Dawson is just so damn good in the role.
Her performance, and the writing that underpinned it in Episode 13: The Jedi is all the more impressive because it allowed people like me who hadn’t watched every last Star Wars property out there, and there are, excitingly a lot, to really get to know the character very quickly and fulsomely without detracting the emotionally flow of what is an exceptionally good episode of The Mandalorian.
It’s exciting to see where they can take the character next, rich as she is with integrity and the power to add real life muscle to it, in a narrative universe that offering so much imaginative scope and storytelling possibility.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars begins streaming on Disney+ in August 2023.