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| Before Jyn Erso, there was Saw Gerrera. Image: LUCASFILM LTD. |
STAR WARS REBELS Third Season resumes in January 2017, and its successful bridging of events into
ROGUE ONE continues with this splendid news.
Here's the DISNEY UK press info:
FOREST
WHITAKER TO APPEAR IN SEASON 3 OF "STAR WARS REBELS"
Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker, who
stars as Rebel freedom fighter Saw Gerrera in "Rogue
One: A Star Wars Story," will join the cast of the hit animated
series "Star Wars Rebels," which is set in a time period just prior to the events of "Rogue One." Whitaker will reprise his role as
Gerrera, providing the voice of the character as he makes his debut
on "Star Wars Rebels: Ghosts of Geonosis, Parts One and Two"
premiering on Disney XD on 7th January at 9.30am.
"It's an incredible honor to have Forest Whitaker play Saw in
'Rebels,'" says series executive producer Dave Filoni. "Forest did a
great job at capturing Saw in a way that is a bit mad, a bit crazed, a bit
afraid, but also a bit sympathetic. He sees something coming but no one will
take action before it's too late."
The character of Saw Gerrera was first introduced in the TV series
"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (2008-2015) as a guerrilla fighter for
his home planet. Created by George Lucas, Saw
received training from the Jedi – Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka
Tano – and served as an early harbinger of the Rebel Alliance, an assortment of
disparate groups coming together to fight for a common cause.
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