Star Wars Rebels’ Sabine Cast for Live-Action Ahsoka Series

Clan Wren flies as soon as extra: Lucasfilm’s Mandalorian spinoff revolving across the post-Return of the Jedi lifetime of Ahsoka Tano has discovered one other insurgent ally for the pressure person.

Deadline experiences that The Society’s Natasha Liu Bordizzo will play the function of Sabine Wren, marking the Star Wars Rebels character’s stay motion debut. Wren, who throughout the occasions of Rebels—set roughly 14 years earlier than the occasions of The Mandalorian—was an Mandalorian ostracized from her household and fellows after going to coach on the Imperial Academy, earlier than becoming a member of the crew of the Ghost within the Lothal Rebel cell, and voiced in all of her animated appearances by Tiya Sircar.

Little is thought about Ahsoka, apart from it can see Rosario Dawson reprise her function from The Mandalorian’s second season because the live-action interpretation of the Clone Wars and Rebels character, a former Jedi who aided the early days of the Rebellion as a part of the key agent community Fulcrum. The present will additionally characteristic an look by Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith’s Hayden Christensen as Ahsoka’s former Jedi Master, Anakin Skywalker. It is closely rumored to select up on plot threads established within the last epilogue of Star Wars Rebels, the place Ahsoka returned to the planet Lothal to recruit Sabine on a quest to search out out the place the sequence’ main protagonist, Ezra Bridger, vanished after the climactic battle for his homeworld, alongside the Imperial officer (and Star Wars Expanded Universe legend) Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Production on Ahsoka, first formally introduced final 12 months at Disney’s Investor Day briefing alongside one other Mandalorian spinoff, the since-purportedly-paused Rangers of the New Republic, is ready to start a while in 2022.

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