'Star Wars Rebels' EP Teases Exciting Ties to the Big Screen World
Star Wars Rebels has a crowd-pleasing connection with the big-screen universe, with the insertion of Darth Vader and Lando Calrissian, among others, making appearances in the animated series.
"What's lovely is, obviously, we've brought in characters from [Star Wars: The] Clone Wars in the second season, and we keep sort of bringing characters from the original movies and sort of deepening the relationships between our core characters, the Ghost crew," producer Simon Kinberg told Moviefone.
"So it's trying to balance the two different things, like the original cast from the first season with Clone Wars, with characters from the original movies, and maybe even feeding into future movies."
His last lines tease a connection to coming films in the franchise. Rebels takes place roughly four years prior to A New Hope, and Rogue One takes place just before the first film in the franchise. So there's every chance of some overlap.
The third season premieres at Star Wars Celebration, which runs in Europe from July 15-17.
Source: Comicbook
