Star Wars Rebels Season 2: Dave Filoni Teases Of Upcoming Episode's Title And Characters

By: Justin Marsh

Clone Wars and Rebels creator, Dave Filoni stated that Star Wars Rebels Season 2 will return with new episodes starting in September, and that the first upcoming episode will be titled "The Lost Commanders". The episode features a return of the clone troopers CT-7567 ("Rex"), CC-3636 ("Wolffe") and CC-5576-39 ("Gregor") originally seen in the Star Wars:The Clone Wars series.


The Daily Dot posted a fantastic interview with the Executive Producer Dave Filoni yesterday in which he gave this cryptic description of an upcoming scene in season two.

Daily Dot: "Give me a nice cryptic tease of a specific event you’re really looking forward to fans seeing in season 2."

Filoni: "Ummm. Boy. I know exactly what it is. You know, it was interesting. I was, oddly, up at Skywalker Ranch [in Marin County, north of Lucasfilm's San Francisco offices], while Kathy [Kennedy] and J.J. [Abrams] were at Comic-Con doing their panel. I had the StarWars.com livestream updating on my computer while I was drawing and storyboarding probably one of the most critical things I've ever drawn and staged at my job at Lucasfilm. And I just found it to be a really interesting kind of crossover point, to see Kathy carrying forward this big movement of Star Wars now, and the fan excitement, and to be...literally I was drawing it in about the same place where I started Clone Wars in 2005.

[Lucasfilm] moved from the Ranch to Big Rock [a nearby studio] and then down to the Presidio [in San Francisco], but that day, because the Golden Gate Bridge was temporarily closed—they were doing some traffic changes—I went in and worked at the Ranch, which I hadn't done in a long time. And it just so happened that I was drawing this really, really, really, really, really, really, really important moment that I had turned over in my head many times, dealing with Ahsoka. And all this was happening on this same day.

I'll never forget that. That was really just a great day in my head for Star Wars. And I thought, "Wow, no one knows this is all happening." But I never would have thought, when I started in 2005, that I would be there 10 years later, not just working on what I was, in that moment, but also witnessing this forward future for Star Wars on a scale that I don't think any of us could have imagined in 2005.

It was kind of a nice point where all things came together for me. And that stuff that I staged, that particular scene, and everything surrounding it...I'm very excited for fans to see. That's going to be a big one. When it happens, you can ask me, you'll say, "Was this the thing?" and I'll say, "Yeah," and I can go into more detail about it.

Is that cryptic enough?"

So what does this mean for us Star Wars fans and what are a few things we should prepare ourselves for? Just in the first upcoming episode alone, we can expect to continue seeing more on Ezra's backstory for the most part, possible new Rebellion groups joining forces together with the main characters to spark the Rebel Alliance against the Empire to later connect with Episode IV: A New Hope, more possible appearances of Jedi master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and finally, a chilling dark duel between Lord Vader and his late apprentice, Ahsoka Tano.

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