Star Wars: Visions Release Date, Trailer Unveiled by Disney+

Star Wars: Visions will launch September 22 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, Disney-owned Lucasfilm introduced at Anime Expo Lite on Sunday, together with a three-minute sneak peek. There will probably be a complete of 9 quick movies within the anthology animated sequence Star Wars: Visions, which is able to characteristic a fallen Jedi, a princess, Japanese iconography, a “Star Wars rock opera”, a droid who needs to be a Jedi, and Luke and Leia-type twins born to the darkish aspect of the Force amongst others. Given Star Wars was impressed partially by Japanese samurai motion pictures, it is solely becoming that Star Wars: Visions is lastly embracing a Japanese type too.

Here’s the total record of the 9 Star Wars: Visions quick movies and the studios behind them:

• Kamikaze Douga, “The Duel”
• Kinema Citrus, “The Village Bride”
• Geno Studio (Twin Engine), “Lop and Ochō”
• Production IG, “The Ninth Jedi”
• Science Saru, “Akakiri”
• Science Saru, “T0-B1”
• Studio Colorido (Twin Engine), “Tatooine Rhapsody”
• Trigger, “The Twins”
• Trigger, “The Elder”

The largely black-and-white “The Duel” will star Samurai-esque Jedi and Sith, along with an astromech droid with a straw hat. Star Wars: Visions government producer James Waugh stated: “The thing [director Takanobu Mizuno] was really clear on was that he just wanted this to be a love letter to Star Wars. The core theme of this short ends up being such a Star Wars story.”

“The Village Bride” is a couple of fallen Jedi, however “not in a way you’d expect.” It’s instructed by means of the eyes of a bride on her marriage ceremony day eve, as she should make an surprising selection to save lots of her folks. Star Wars: Visions producer Kanako Shirasaki stated: “It’s poetic, meditative, and romantically bittersweet. [‘The Village Bride’] also approaches the Force in a really unique and surprising way, too.”

Space bunny-person Lop leads “Lop and Ochō”, who’s described as cute, expressive, and “completely unwavering in her devotion to good and family and loyalty” by Star Wars: Visions government producer Jacqui Lopez. “Lop and Ochō”’s design type centres on the distinction between “natural beauty and encroaching industrialisation.”

“The Ninth Jedi” is the fusion of two shorts beforehand imagined: one the place the daughter of a lightsabersmith seeks out the Jedi who’ve fallen into legend, and one other the place eight warriors uncover that they could be Force delicate. Production IG are additionally behind Ghost within the Shell and Kill Bill’s anime scene. “The Ninth Jedi”’s rating was recorded at Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall in Kawasaki.

“Akakiri” is the “beautiful yet painful story” of a princess, with Astro Boy sound designer Matsuo Ohno lending his famend abilities. Science Saru’s different quick, “T0-B1” follows the aforementioned Jedi-dreaming droid that is described as “more heartwarming fare” than “Akakiri”.

With “Tatooine Rhapsody”, Star Wars embraces Chibi artwork type because it chronicles a band’s journey. Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt will characteristic. Star Wars: Visions government producer Josh Rimes stated: “It’s a Star Wars rock opera. We took a chance and they just blew us away with the style and the characters and the tone, and really the heart of what is best in Star Wars about found family and the dream.”

Say hi there to new darkish side-twins in “The Twins” that goals to subvert the concept of Luke and Leia, and showcases “how far the brother will go to save his sister,” Star Wars: Visions co-executive producer Justin Leach stated. The twins have their very own particular co-joined Star Destroyer.

And that leaves “The Elder”, which pays homage to a “classic Star Wars master and Padawan relationship,” Shirasaki added. “You’ll also find the dual meaning of the title after you watch the short.”

“We really wanted to give these creators a wide creative berth to explore all the imaginative potential of the Star Wars galaxy through the unique lens of anime,” Waugh stated at Anime Expo Lite. “We realised we wanted these to be as authentic as possible to the studios and creators who are making them, made through their unique process, in a medium they’re such experts at. So, the idea was, this is their vision riffing off all the elements of the Star Wars galaxy that inspired them — hopefully to make a really incredible anthology series, unlike anything we’ve seen before in the Star Wars galaxy.”

Star Wars: Visions premieres Wednesday, September 22 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. It was first revealed at Disney’s large investor presentation final December.