Star Wars Rebels Rumoured to Introduce 'Legends' Character from Old Star Wars Canon
When Disney acquired Star Wars, a lot of changes went down regarding the franchise's expanded universe, which extended across comic books and novels particularly.
Many expanded universe tales and characters were switched to 'legends', a fancy classing for stories that were no longer considered to have actually happened in the galaxy far, far away.
Star Wars Rebels, as somewhat of a continuation of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, taking place before the events of A New Hope, is rumoured to be taking advantage of a character from these since 'expired' legends stories, bringing him into the new modern continuity.
"I have heard that in Season 3 of Star Wars Rebels we will be introduced to none other than the original blue guy himself, Grand Admiral Thrawn from Heir to the Empire," Making Star Wars reports.
"From the sound of things, we're going to see Thrawn as the tactical genius of capital starship warfare he was to Expanded Universe readers in the '90s. However, this time he will be using his evil brand of genius against the heroes of the starship ghost."
Grand Admiral Thrawn first appeared in the Thrawn trilogy published between 1991 and 1993, which is considered by many to be a classic, must-read tale in the Star Wars library.
Source: Comicbook
