Ahsoka (Essentially) Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+
Don’t worry, Star Wars fans. Ahsoka will be back!
Disney+ confirmed Tuesday that a second season of the series starring Rosario Dawson is officially in development. The news was embedded within this morning’s larger announcement that The Mandalorian is headed to the big screen (full details here).
Back in November, Ahsoka boss (and Lucasfilm’s newly-minted Chief Creative Officer) Dave Filoni revealed to Vanity Fair that he is “exploring a possible second season of Ahsoka.”
The Mandalorian offshoot, which bowed in August, debuted at No. 2 on Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals. The premiere racked up 829 million minutes viewed for the week of Monday, Aug. 21, besting Andor‘s triple-episode debut (which last September garnered 624 million minutes viewed in its first week) and The Mandalorian Season 3’s opening week (823 million minutes). However, it fell shy of Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s double-episode premiere (1.03 billion minutes).
Ahsoka is set after the events of the animated series Star Wars Rebels, in which the small rebel cell known as the Ghost Crew helped liberate the Outer Rim planet Lothal from Imperial control. In the Rebels series finale, Jedi Ezra Bridger and the villainous Grand Admiral Thrawn were whisked away into deep space by star whales and had been missing for years. Both Ezra and Thrawn — spoiler alert — resurfaced in Episode 6.
Season 1 featured a bevy of cameos and nods to previous Star Wars projects, including Hayden Christensen reprising his role as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Anthony Daniels making a brief appearance Episode 7, and several mentions of Senator Leia Organa.
Do they get a new showrunner because the first season wasn’t good, Dave Filoni seemed more interested in callbacks and cameos than he was in telling a good story.
You’re asking why they built season 1 around two fan bases, to merge it into one new project, for maximum cohesiveness and entertainment?
Why?
After the death of Ray Stevenson, seems like the series lost a key element of its story.
Are they doing season 4 of the Mandalorian ?
It didn’t matter HOW bad it was, this was getting renewed. Feloni is guiding Star Wars at Disney right now, and this is his baby.
Wow how did this crap show get renewed?! Disney Star wars is mostly horrible.
Wonderful news!