Star Wars: Ahsoka: new release date, trailer, cast and more

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• Launching on August 22, 2023 in the US with a two-episode premiere. New episodes will continue to debut on Tuesdays in the US- Spin-off series fromThe Mandalorian- Developed by Dave Filoni andThe Mandaloriancreator Jon Favreau- Filoni acting as showrunner- Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eman Esfandi and Lars Mikkelsen head up the cast- Filming wrapped in October 2022- First official trailer was revealed at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in May, with a second following in July

Star Wars: Ahsokaputs the spotlight on one of the most important characters in George Lucas’s galaxy far, far away. Ahsoka Tano may not have appeared in any live-action movies (not yet, anyway…), but – as a key player in bothThe Clone WarsandStar WarsRebelsTV animated TV shows – Anakin Skywalker’s former Jedi apprentice played a pivotal role in both the Clone Wars and the formation of the Rebel Alliance.

With Tano now played by Rosario Dawson (reprising her role fromThe MandalorianandThe Book of Boba Fett), newDisney PlusseriesAhsokais set in the aftermath of the (supposed) demise of the Empire, some five years after the conclusion ofReturn of the Jedi.And as she tries to prevent her old Imperial adversary Grand Admiral Thrawn filling the power vacuum filled by the (apparent) death of Emperor Palpatine, she’ll be joined by a few familiar faces from her Rebel days, including ace pilot Hera Syndulla, Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren and – at some point – wannabe Jedi Ezra Bridger.

TheAhsokaTV show’s release date has just been brought forward by a few hours to 6pm (PT) on Tuesday, August 22 (Wednesday, August 23 In the UK). Before you set coordinates for the latestStar WarsTV shows on one of thebest streaming services, here’s everything you need to know about the cast, story and Ahsoka herself. You can also check out this guide to theDisney Plus shows you should watch before launch. And be warned – spoilers forThe Clone WarsandStar Wars Rebelslie in wait.

Star Wars: Ashoka release date: August 22 2023

It was announced at April 2023’s Star Wars Celebration in London that theAhsokaTV show will debut on Disney Plus some time in August 2023. That gave us confirmation that the series will be the first live-actionStar WarsTV show to emerge from that galaxy far, far away sinceThe Mandalorianseason 3concluded in April.

In early June,the exactAhsokarelease date was confirmed as August 23, though an announcement on the officialStar WarsTwitter feed revealed that we’ll be seeing the show a tiny bit sooner.

Thank you to all the fans who celebrated with us at our @AhsokaOfficial fan events around the world last night!We’re excited to announce that new episodes of #Ahsoka will now launch Tuesdays at 6PM PT, starting with our two-episode premiere on August 22, only on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/Z2XqAqBiICAugust 18, 2023

Star Wars: Ahsokawill now launch at 6pm PT (9pm ET) onTuesday, August 22– though viewers in the UK will have to wait until the early hours of Wednesday (2am BST) to lay eyes on the show.

According toStarWars.com, subsequent episodes will also debut on Tuesdays at 6pm (PT), a significant move that brings a Disney Plus big-hitter into primetime. (Previous high-profileMarvel Cinematic UniverseandStar Warsshows have tended to launch episodes at midnight (PT) or 3am (ET) on Wednesdays or Fridays.) Just to add to the adventure and excitement of theAhsokarelease date, the eight-part season will premiere with the release of two episodes.

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We first heard about theAhsokaTV show when it was one of manynewStar Warsand Marvel TV showsannounced at theDisney Investor Dayin December 2020. The officialStar WarsTwitter account confirmed that production began in May 2022, with filming wrapping a few months later in October.

Star Wars: Ahsoka trailers

Warrior. Outcast. Rebel. Jedi.

The firstStar Wars: Ahsokatrailer debuted at Star Wars Celebration 2023, and it proved to be something of aStar Wars Rebelsreunion. As well as featuring plenty of scenes with Ahsoka herself, the teaser gave us our first look at the live-action incarnations of several members of the Ghost crew: Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren, ace pilot Hera Syndulla and (very briefly, as a hologram) trainee Jedi Ezra Bridger. We also got to see – albeit from the back –Star Wars RebelsBig Bad Grand Admiral Thrawn, who’s returned from the far reaches of space to make life awkward for the nascent New Republic.

TheAhsokatrailer also introduced a pair of Dark Side Force wielders in the form of Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati, and confirmed returns for New Republic leader Mon Mothma and Huyang, the ancient droid who helped Padawan learners construct their lightsabers inThe Clone Wars.

The secondAhsokatrailer, released in July 2023, teases a little bit more about the show’s plot.

In the trailer, Baylan Skoll not only confirms that “We are no Jedi” – something we’d long suspected – he also announces that, “War is inevitable. One must destroy in order to create.” He also says that Thrawn’s return will lead to “power, such as you’ve never dreamed”.

That’s unlikely to be good news for the New Republic, now led by Mon Mothma, who seem strangely resistant to Hera’s efforts to prevent another war – though the sequel trilogy has already made it clear that her best laid plans will ultimately be unsuccessful, when the First Order rises from the ashes of the Empire.

We also see Ahsoka recruiting Sabine – who’s “still as stubborn as ever” – to rejoin the fight, and hints that the Mandalorian will become her new apprentice, despite some obvious tension in their relationship. Sabine even gets to wield a lightsaber – could she have some latent Force powers we didn’t know about before?

This being aStar Warsproject, actual concrete plot details are thin on the ground, though fans will surely enjoy their first proper look at the live-action Grand Admiral Thrawn, Sabine standing in front of a recreation of the mural from the end of Rebels, and Hera reminding us all that, “Once a Rebel, always a Rebel.” Like we didn’t know…

Who is Ahsoka Tano?: the Jedi’s backstory explained

“When gone am I, the last of a Jedi will you be,” a dying Yoda told Luke Skywalker inReturn of the Jedi,but – in a long-standingStar Warstradition – the wise old Jedi Master was only correct from a certain point of view. Ahsoka Tano isn’t technically a Jedi – she left the Order before passing the relevant trials – but, in every other regard, she posesses the necessary qualifications.

So, who is Ahsoka Tano? She made her first appearance in 2008, in the animatedClone Warsmovie that set up the long-running TV show. (See how it fits into the overall chronology inour guide to watching the Star Wars movies in order.) The Togruta teen went on to serve as Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan apprentice throughout the eponymous conflict.

A highly respected commander in the Republic forces, she fought with a distinctive two-lightsaber style, and was nicknamed “Snips” by her master, owing to her supposedly snippy attitude. In return, she referred to Anakin as “Sky Guy”.

Ahsoka went on to play a key role inthe formation of the Rebel Alliance inStar Wars Rebels, set more than a decade later during the run-up toA New Hope.She then made her live-action debut inThe Mandalorianseason 2 episode 5, ‘The Jedi’, and has since shown up inThe Book of Boba Fett’s sixth episode, ‘From the Desert Comes a Stranger’. Her voice can also heard among the choir of Jedi giving Rey a pep talk when she faces the resurrected Emperor inThe Rise of Skywalker’s denouement.

Star Wars: Ahsoka cast

Here’s what theAhsokaTV show cast currently looks like:

Although Ashley Eckstein voiced Ahsoka throughoutThe Clone WarsandRebels, Rosario Dawson (Sin City,Daredevil) has played the character in live-actionStar WarsprojectsThe MandalorianandThe Book of Boba Fett. Dawson returns as the Jedi in the new Disney Plus series.

Dawson will be joined by Natasha Liu Bordizzo, replacing Tiya Sircar who voiced graffiti-loving Mandalorian explosives expert Sabine Wren across four seasons ofStar Wars Rebels. The show’s Star Wars Celebration 2022 panel in Anaheim also announced the return of surly astromech droid C1-10P, better known as Chopper. Then, in September 2022,The Hollywood Reporterconfirmed Eman Esfandi will play aspiring Jedi Ezra Bridger, a role originated by Taylor Gray inRebels.

Additional members of the cast were announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London.

Birds of Prey’s Mary Elizabeth Winstead will play Hera Syndulla, who captained the heroes’ ship, the Ghost, throughoutRebels(where she was voiced by Vanessa Marshall), and has since been promoted to the rank of general in the New Republic.

Following the confirmation of Hera’s return, the only surviving member ofRebels’Ghost crew who isn’t definitely returning to action inAhsokais Lasat muscle Zeb Orrelios. But, seeing as he turned up inThe Mandalorianseason 3, we’ll be extremely disappointed if we don’t get a full-onStar Wars Rebelsreunion somewhere down the line. (Fugitive Jedi Kanan Jarrus sacrificed himself to save his friends during the final season ofRebels,so is unlikely to appear.)

The Dark Side of the Force will be represented byPacific Rim: Uprising’s Ivanna Sakhno andPunisher: War Zone/Black Sailsstar Ray Stevenson as Dark Siders Shin Hati and Baylan Skoll, respectively. Sadly, Stevenson passed away in May this year.

Arguably the most exciting piece ofAhsokacasting news – forStar Wars Rebelsfans, at least – is the identity of the actor playing Grand Admiral Thrawn, the blue-skinned Imperial mastermind who first appeared in Timothy Zahn’s much-loved series of (now non-canonical) 1990s novels, starting withHeir to the Empire. While fellowRebelsveterans Ahsoka, Sabine, Hera and Ezra have all been recast, actor Lars Mikkelsen is following in the footsteps of Katee Sackhoff (the voice of Mandalorian Bo-Katan Kryze) by taking a character from animation to live-action. This is great news for theAhsokaTV show – not only was Mikkelsen suitably chilling inRebels, he also has a track record playing memorable villains thanks to his appearance inSherlockseason 3 finale ‘His Last Vow’.

TheStar Wars: Ahsokatrailer also confirms a return for Diana Lee Inosanto, who played Thrawn acolyte Morgan Elsbeth inThe Mandalorianseason 2. Other actors reprising their roles from previousStar Warsprojects includeAndor’s Genevieve O’Reilly as former Rebel and New Republic Chancellor Mon Mothma, andDoctor Whostar David Tennant voicing ancient droid/Jedi ally Huyang.

And after persistent rumors – and plenty ofevasive maneuvers from Rosario DawsonandAhsokashowrunner Dave Filonito dodge the subject – it seems that Hayden Christensen really is set to follow up his spectacular return as Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker inObi-Wan Kenobi.The teaser below features a new voiceover from Ahsoka’s old masterbeforehe turned to the Dark Side, suggesting the new show will take a few diversions to Ahsoka’s formative years during the Clone Wars. (Interestingly, Dawson and Christensen also appeared together in 2003’sShattered Glass.)

Luke and Leia’s dadmightnot be the end of the cameos inAhsoka, either. Seeing asthe showexists at a similar point in theStar Warstimeline toThe MandalorianandThe Book of Boba Fett,don’t be surprised if the likes of Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan Kryze, Pedro Pascal’s Mando/Din Djarin and Grogu make appearances in the series. There’s also a possibility ofThe Book of BobaFett star Temuera Morrison turning up to play Ahsoka Tano’s Clone Trooper buddy Captain Rex – Boba and Rex were born in the same Petri dish, after all.

In fact, seeing as all the shows in this part of theStar Warsuniverse are building up to a “climactic” event movie directed by Filoni (and set to be released in theaters), it would be a big shock if we don’t see any big-name guest stars from elsewhere in that galaxy far, far away turn up inAhsoka. Han Solo, Leia Organa and Lando Calrissian are all active at this point in the timeline, so anything could happen…

Don’t hold your breath for another digitally de-aged performance from Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, however – although he reprised the role in bothThe MandalorianandThe Book of Boba Fett, Hamill suggested in an interview withEsquirethat his time in those Jedi robesmightbe over. But never say never…

“One thing you learn working for Lucasfilm: everything is confidential,” he admitted. “So, if I were involved, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. And if I were not involved, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. So, I don’t know. We’ll all find out together, I guess.”

Star Wars: Ahsoka showrunner and directors

Lucasfilm Executive Creative Director Dave Filoni (a veteran of the hitAvatar: The Last Airbendercartoon series) co-created Ahsoka Tano alongside George Lucas forThe Clone Warsand went on to shepherd her through seven seasons ofThe Clone Warsand several guest appearances onRebels. He also directed her episodes ofThe Mandalorianand TheBook of Boba Fett, and has been a key part of the creative team on those shows, alongsideThe Mandaloriancreator/showrunner Jon Favreau.

“With Ahsoka, it’s time that she came into her own in a way we’ve never seen it before,” Filoni teased in the “Journey toAhsoka” featurette below. “Rosario [Dawson]’s so compelling. She is on fire and she knows her stuff.”

In addition to being showrunner onStar Wars: Ahsoka, Filoni will direct at least one episode. Other directors on the show include Steph Green (The Book of Boba Fett), Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), Jennifer Getzinger (Jessica Jones), Geeta Patel (House of the Dragon)and Rick Famuyiwa (The Mandalorian).

Star Wars: Ahsoka story

For the benefit of anyone whohasn’twatched the animatedStar Warsshows, here’s a brief history of Ahsoka Tano’s life and times.

Having served the Republic with distinction throughout the Clone Wars, she left the Jedi Order under a cloud duringThe Clone Warsseason 5. Although she was eventually exonerated for bombing the Jedi Temple – she’d been framed by her friend and fellow Padawan Barriss Offee – she decided not to return, and went out into the galaxy solo.

During the final days of the Clone Wars, she helpedBo-Katan Kryzeremove Darth Maul from the Mandalorian throne, and was on her way to return the former Sith Lord to Jedi custody when the Emperor initiated Order 66. With some help from her old friend (and Clone Trooper) Captain Rex – whose mind-controlling inhibitor chip she removed via some DIY surgery – Ahsoka survived the Jedi purge and went into hiding. One of the episodes from 2022 anthology seriesTales of the Jedi(available on Disney Plus, and one of the episodes worth watching when you’repreparing forStar Wars: Ahsoka) shows how a chance encounter with one of the Empire’s Jedi-hunting Inquisitors persuaded her to rejoin the fight.

Ahsoka turned up again inStar Wars Rebels, set around 15 years after the Emperor came to power inRevenge of the Sith. It was eventually revealed that Ahsoka was the mysterious Fulcrum, an agent who helped pull disparate cells of freedom fighters together to form the Rebel Alliance.

She also fought a fateful duel with her former master. When she removed a portion of Darth Vader’s helmet with her lightsaber – much as Obi-Wan did in theObi-Wan KenobiTV show – she became one of the few people in the galaxy aware of his true identity. The Vader/Anakin Skywalker connection wouldn’t become common knowledge for several decades, with the secret eventually being leaked to damage Leia Organa’s post-Return of the Jedipolitical aspirations in Claudia Gray’s 2016 novelBloodline.

Ahsoka barely made it out of the duel with Vader alive, but she was saved by a future version of Jedi apprentice Ezra Bridger. He pulled her into the so-called World Between Worlds, a mystical realm where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. By the time of theRebelsepilogue – set some time afterReturn of the Jedi– Ahsoka had somehow returned to the normal reality of that galaxy far, far away.

Aside from the flashbacks in the standalone episodes ofTales of the Jedi,her most recent canonical appearances came inThe MandalorianandThe Book of Boba Fett.

InThe Mandalorianepisode 13, otherwise known as ‘The Jedi’, she met Din Djarin (aka the Mandalorian) and Baby Yoda. While communing with the Child, she learned his real name was Grogu, and gave Mando some pointers to help find more Jedi – who just happened to be represented by some guy called Luke Skywalker.

She then unexpectedly showed up again inThe Book of Boba Fett’s sixth chapter, ‘From the Desert Comes a Stranger’. The episode provided confirmation that Ahsoka has met up with Luke Skywalker, as she paid him a visit at his new Jedi academy on Ossus. She also counselled him about Grogu’s training, and told him that he reminded her of his late dad. When Luke asked if he would see her again, she replied with a cryptic “Perhaps”. (In other words the doorhasbeen left open for Luke’s return – or possibly not!)

So what do we know aboutStar Wars: Ahsoka’s plot? “There’s always been a big open question,” Lucasfilm head of development Carrie Beck said in an August 2023 interview withEntertainment Weekly. “We don’t see her in the original trilogy. We don’t see her in the sequel trilogy. What did she end up doing?”

Luckily the show will have plenty of existingcanonto work from, and there’s nobody on the planet who knows how to navigate theStar Warstimeline better than Dave Filoni, who clearly has a long-standing plan for the future of the character.

In fact, this is why he insisted that Ahsoka shouldn’t be the Jedi to train Grogu inThe Mandalorian. “I was telling Jon [Favreau,Mandalorianshowrunner] that as much as I wanted to have Ahsoka in the show, she can’t take this kid on,” he toldEmpiremagazine in March 2023. “That‘s just not what I have planned.”

Going byStarWars.com’s original announcement, it looks like the new series will pick up soon after Ahsoka’s meeting with Mando and Grogu: “After making her long awaited live-action debut inThe Mandalorian,” the site’s article reads, “Ahsoka Tano’s story will continue in a limited series.”

It’s currently unknown whether thatRebelsepilogue takes place before or after Ahsoka showed up inThe Mandalorian. However, we do know (from footage screened atStar WarsCelebration 2022) that the animated show’s closing scenes have been recreated in live-action forAhsoka.And also that thisisthe incarnation of the character we saw dressed in white in theRebelsfinale, having returned from the mysterious World Between Worlds.

“In the animation, you saw her go to the white,“Dawson explained, “but what I loved is the idea that there was even another level to her. Dave and I talked a lot about Gandalf the Gray and Gandalf the White [inThe Lord of the Rings] – talking about that transition and how she’s someone very capable and excellent and looked up to as a leader, but she still has levels of development to go.” Dawson has also described her Ahsoka as a “lone wolf”.

As is traditionally the case with Lucasfilm, solid details of theStar Wars: Ahsokaplot are thin on the ground. The first trailer did offer up a few clues, however – especially in the snippets of dialogue.

It began with Ahsoka Tano announcing that, “Something’s coming. Something dark. I sense it.” New character Baylan Skoll (he’s “no Jedi”) then spoke of a “new beginning. For some, war. For others, power.”

The most important line, however, arguably concerned the comeback tour of an infamous Chiss officer, last seen disappearing (along with Ezra Bridger) into deep space in theStar Wars Rebelsfinale:

“I started hearing whispers about Thrawn’s return,” said Ahsoka. “As heir to the Empire.”

This wasn’t just a sly callback to the aforementioned Timothy Zahn novels. We’d long suspected that infamous military strategist Thrawn was going to be the main antagonist inAhsoka, not least because Ahsoka asked Morgan Elsbeth about her “master”’s whereabouts inThe Mandalorianseason 2. Both trailers have provided definitive confirmation, however, even providing a glimpse of the man himself.

How Thrawn – and presumably Ezra, who’s only been teased in hologram form up to now – have made it back to this corner of the galaxy is surely going to be one of the big questions answered by theAhsokaTV show. Could it have something to do with the purrgil (space whales) who made an appearance in hyperspace in season 3 ofThe Mandalorian, perhaps?

“[Thrawn]’s brutal to a certain point, but he’s not stupid,” Lars Mikkelsen said of the Grand Admiral in an Entertainment Weekly interview. “He utilizes the creativity around him, and I like that. He doesn’t just kill people off for the fun of it. He’s sort of seven pages ahead of everybody else.”

It looks like Thrawn’s impact will stretch way beyondAhsoka,as his imminent return was discussed by the Imperial Shadow Council inThe Mandalorianseason 3 episode ‘The Spies’. Indeed, it looks like he’s being set up as the Big Bad for this whole era of theStar Warsgalaxy as the action builds up to a movie (directed by Filoni) that –according toStarWars.com– will “close out” interconnecting plot threads fromThe Mandalorian,Ahsoka,The Book of Boba Fettand (we’re guessing) the upcomingSkeleton Crew.

“I think it’s hard not to feel part of something bigger,” Sabine Wren actor Natasha Liu Bordizzo told SFX magazine (viaGameRadar+).

WithThe Mandaloriantackling the re-emergence of the Empire from a Mandalorian perspective, andThe Book of Boba Fetthanging out in the criminal underworld,Ahsokaseems primed to explore what it means for the New Republic and what’s left of the Jedi.

Who knows, Ahsoka may have a part to play in restoring the Order to past glories. “The Jedi fell a long time ago,” she acknowledges in the trailer. “There aren’t many left.”

“Perhaps it is time to begin again,” replies Huyang, an ancient droid who’s been associated with the Jedi for millennia.

But, having turned her back on the Jedi decades earlier, we think it’s unlikely Ahsoka will join forces with Luke Skywalker at his (ultimately doomed) Jedi Academy on Ossus, so her involvement may be more advisory than hands-on.

“[Ahsoka’s] a wanderer at this point,” Filoni toldEmpirein June 2023, “and is in a lot of ways wary of any organisation as such because of the power that comes with it as a group. She walks a path that basically died out a long time ago. And there aren’t many like her left, if any. So that’s a lonely thing. What is that life like? If you are a loner, you have a very small circle of friends. What is it like, then, when you try to open back up?”

With Hera now a general in the New Republic military and Mon Mothma at the head of its government, Ahsoka has friends in high places. But we know from bothThe Mandalorianand theStar Warssequel movies (where Empire spin-off group the First Order have risen to power in secret) that the New Republic are frustratingly slow to act on the growing Imperial threat on the Outer Rim. This means that Ahsoka may be left to take on Thrawn’s forces alone – or, at least, with the help of her old friends fromStar Wars Rebels,including aforementioned Mando Sabine Wren.

“I think there’s a deep level of respect that Sabine has for Ahsoka, as someone to learn from,” Bordizzo told SFX (viaGamesRadar+). “In the show they’ve been through a lot in the time that has passed, some of which we know about, some of which we don’t. Their quests kind of end up overlapping, bringing them back together, and there’s tension and there’s things they’ve been through that they need to work out. Their reunion’s interesting!”

It’s also clear that Ahsoka will be facing a new enemies from the Dark Side in the form of Baylan Skoll and his Force-wielding apprentice, Shin Hati. It’s safe to assume they’re not Sith – following the deaths of Darths Vader and Sidious, canon dictates that the arch-enemies of the Jedi are unlikely to make another appearance untilThe Rise of Skywalker– but they’re clearly powerful enough to give Ahsoka some serious headaches.

Skoll was actually a Jedi before he became a mercenary in the wake of the Order 66 purge. “He has a stoic lethality in that there’s a purpose to him,” the late Ray Stevenson explained in an interview with Empire. “He is not genocidal or malicious or overly aggressive. He will request that you get out of his way. But if you don’t, he will take you out of his way.”

Of his young sidekick, Shin Hati, actor Ivanna Sakhno, told Entertainment Weekly that, “she’s very calculated, She’s impatient, but she’s a seeker. She’s only in the beginning of finding her own voice.”

Whatever happens, the TV show that bears Ahsoka’s name clearly has a big role to play in shaping theStar Warsgalaxy as it approaches the era ofThe Force Awakens, The Last JediandThe Rise of Skywalker.

You can find out more about the story and development ofStar Wars: Ahsokain this video on the officialStar WarsYouTubechannel:

And for moreStar Wars-based content, readour interview withThe Mandalorianseason 3 director-executive producer Rick Famuyiwa. Additionally, find out whichStar WarsTV series made it onto ourbest Disney Plus showslist.

Richard is a freelance journalist specialising in movies and TV, primarily of the sci-fi and fantasy variety. An early encounter with a certain galaxy far, far away started a lifelong love affair with outer space, and these days Richard’s happiest geeking out about Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel and other long-running pop culture franchises. In a previous life he was editor of legendary sci-fi and fantasy magazine SFX, where he got to interview many of the biggest names in the business – though he’ll always have a soft spot for Jeff Goldblum who (somewhat bizarrely) thought Richard’s name was Winter.

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