A new trailer has been unveiled for the upcomingStar Warsanimated seriesTales of the Jedi. The series will provide origin stories for two major characters in the prequel trilogy, Ahsoka and Count Dooku.
Tales of the Jediis written and created by Dave Filoni and Charles Murray, part of the creative team behind the long-running animated television seriesStar Wars: The Clone Wars. Filoni developed the concept while he was working on Disney’s highly successful streaming seriesThe Mandalorian, and it was officially revealed in May of this year.
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Disney’s annual D23 Expo is taking place this weekend, and unsurprisingly it is chock full of big reveals. One such reveal is thefirst trailerforTales of the Jediand plenty of new details about the show. We now know that the series will be divided into two parts that each follow a different character. The first half of the series will showAhsoka Tano becoming a Jediand training with Anakin Skywalker. The second half of the series will be about Count Dooku’s slow turn to the Dark Side, as well as him training his padawan, a young Qui-Gon Jinn.
Ahsoka Tano is a somewhat lesser known character in theStar Warsuniverse that first became popular inThe Clone Warsseries and more recently in the secondseason ofThe Mandalorian. She is currently scheduled to receive her ownStar Warsstreaming series on Disney+, entitledAhsoka. In addition to Ahsoka and Dooku,Tales of the Jediwill feature appearances from many of the most beloved characters in the prequel trilogy, including Mace Windu, Qui-Gon Jinn, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker, as well as Princess Leia’s father Bail Organa, a female Jedi of Yoda’s species named Yaddle, and the Cantina alien Ponda Baba fromA New Hope.
The series will be divided into 6 episodes, each one exploring a different period in the character’s life and running around 15 minutes long. Most of the major roles will be reprised by their original actors, including Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon, Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka, and Matt Lanter (fromThe Clone Wars) as the voice of Anakin. Liam Neeson’s son Micheál Richardson will voice the young Qui-Gon.
The series is being marketed as an anthology series, though so far it only tells two different stories. This makes one wonder if the show is expected to return for another season to tell the stories of even more Jedi. At this point we don’t know, but it seems likely. Dave Filoni is also the creator ofStar Wars: The Bad Batch, another animated spin-off show, whose second season releases on September 28.
