Star Wars Resistance

Star Wars Resistance Is the Next Lucasfilm Animated Series and the Details Are Absolutely Incredible

After Star Wars Rebels came to an end earlier this year, we knew the next chapter of Star Wars animation was close, and now we know exactly what it is. And it’s extremely exciting. The new chapter in Lucasfilm’s world is leaving behind the age of the Rebellion to tell a new saga set in the run-up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Announced by Lucasfilm today, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels producer Dave Filoni’s next project will be Star Wars Resistance.

Set in what is described by the company as an “uncharted time frame prior to The Force Awakens,” the “anime-inspired” Resistance will follow a young pilot named Kazuda Xiono, recruited by General Leia Organa’s burgeoning Resistance for a top-secret surveillance mission to survey the growing power of the First Order. The series will focus on Kazuda and a cast of ace pilots, but will also feature familiar faces from the sequel trilogy in the form of BB-8, Poe Dameron, and Captain Phasma, with both Oscar Isaac and Gwendoline Christie reprising their respective roles for the series.

According to Filoni—who will executive produce the series alongside Rebels veterans Athena Portillo and Justin Ridge, as well as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Brandon Auman—the series will focus on the high-flying, high-speed adventures of the galaxy far, far away’s daring pilots:

The idea for Star Wars Resistance came out of my interest in World War II aircraft and fighter pilots. My grandfather was a pilot and my uncle flew and restored planes, so that’s been a big influence on me. There’s a long history of high-speed racing in Star Wars, and I think we’ve captured that sense of excitement in an anime-inspired style, which is something the entire team has been wanting to do for a long time.

No other details were revealed about the series, although we should mention there were zero mentions of Jedi in the announcement. Then again, that didn’t stop Star Wars Rebels, did it? Maybe a few more familiar faces could show up...

Star Wars Resistance will feature a voice cast alongside Isaac and Christie that includes Christopher Sean, Suzie McGrath, Scott Lawrence, Myrna Velasco, Josh Brener, Donald Faison (a big Star Wars fan, we should note, especially Rebels), Bobby Moynihan, Jim Rash, and Rachel Butera.

Star Wars Resistance will run on the Disney Channel this fall, as well as airing on Disney XD at a later date.

I wonder if a certain green-haired half-human's part of the announced cast...

Rat Boy wrote:

I wonder if a certain green-haired half-human's part of the announced cast...

Wut?

PaladinTom wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:

I wonder if a certain green-haired half-human's part of the announced cast...

Wut?

...watch the end of Star Wars Rebels, will ya?

Here's the First Trailer for the Next Star Wars Animated Series, Resistance
*I hope it is good. Their other shows have been but this trailer doesn't really excite me.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Not a particular fan of the flattened CG style, nor the "Fall Down Wacky Noise" style.

I'm not liking the style much either but I'll give it a chance.

I'm looking forward to it.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Not a particular fan of the flattened CG style, nor the "Fall Down Wacky Noise" style.

What noise? I’ve watched this several times and don’t hear it.

farley3k wrote:

Here's the First Trailer for the Next Star Wars Animated Series, Resistance
*I hope it is good. Their other shows have been but this trailer doesn't really excite me.

Looks like the same folks that did Iron Man: Armored Adventures (which I really liked). I'm in! ...as soon as it hits Netflix, at least.

Cool. Another Star Wars I can watch with my kiddos!

Can't say i'm crazy about the art style but i'll definitely give it a chance. Still way more excited about the additional season of CW.

The art style is okay for me. If the show is good, I'm sure I'll stop noticing it after a while.

What I'm particularly excited about is the seeming focus on starfighters. Give me moar chases, dogfights, and space battles pleeze!!!

New trailer

The Aces

Liking the trailers as the story just sounds fun and different but I think the art style is going to make this less enjoyable for me.

Also, I like Donald Faison. I really like how they created his character around the actor. Should be fun.

Cool. I'm really liking where this falls in the timeline and the tie-in with the Rebels.

Fun show, kind of like the early episodes of Rebels before bad stuff happened. Also fun to finally see New Republic T-85 X-Wings in action.

I find the main character insufferable. Did they go out of their way to make him the most annoying character ever? Never thought I’d miss Ezra.

PaladinTom wrote:

I find the main character insufferable. Did they go out of their way to make him the most annoying character ever? Never thought I’d miss Ezra.

Go back and watch Luke in ANH with fresh eyes

I saw a little bit of an episode and quickly came to the conclusion that I am not the intended audience. It seemed like they looked at Jar Jar and said, yeah, we need more of that.

I'm going to wait and see where things go. If I based my rating of Clone Wars, the best of Star Wars in my book, on the first episodes and the movie, I would have never watched the show. It was pretty bad and very Jar Jar, but it ended up producing the best stories out of Star Wars.