RUMOR: Next STAR WARS Animated Series To Be Set In Current Movie Timeline

RUMOR: Next STAR WARS Animated Series To Be Set In Current Movie Timeline

/Film have yet another Star Wars scoop for us, but this time it relates to the TV side of the galaxy far, far away. They reckon they know roughly when Rebels will finish up, and when the next animated series after it will be set. Details past the jump.

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By MarkCassidy - Nov 25, 2014 09:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: /Film


Up until now all of the animated Star Wars series have served as prequel stories to the live-action movies, but that may be about to change when Star Wars Rebels finishes up. That current (and pretty great I might add) show is set before the events of A New Hope, but according to /Film the cartoon that succeeds it will be set in the timeline of the new batch of movies, which kick off next year with The Force Awakens. Word is Disney/Lucasfilm's plan is to produce "about three or four seasons" of Star Wars Rebels before launching the new animated series. Though /Film are confident in their sources, they are treating this as a rumor for now and don't have many more details. However, they speculate that if the plan is to run 4 seasons of Rebels, the new show could première around the time of Rian Johnson’s "Episode VIII", giving us a couple films to establish the Sequel Trilogy universe. Do you think this is a good idea? Sound off below.
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Nick56
Nick56 - 11/25/2014, 9:10 AM
Im done with Star Wars animated series. Clone Wars was bad, Rebels is worse.
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 11/25/2014, 9:11 AM
Neat, hope it looks like Rebels and has the intensity of the Clone Wars 3-6
Dmon
Dmon - 11/25/2014, 9:35 AM
They really need to do an Old Republic one
MisterBabadook
MisterBabadook - 11/25/2014, 10:16 AM
I'm right there with Nick56 100%.
PymParticle
PymParticle - 11/25/2014, 10:29 AM
Of course it is. Every movie is being made in to a connected universe now.
Azrael725
Azrael725 - 11/25/2014, 10:37 AM
Is anyone else getting the pop up ads on the side of their screen? I have adblock on btw.
Dotanuki
Dotanuki - 11/25/2014, 10:39 AM
I'm burnt out on the Prequel and OT timelines. Show us something way before or after the OT. Hopefully they don't shoehorn this series between the OT and the new trilogy.
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 11/25/2014, 10:41 AM
@PymParticle

Star Wars has been a cinematic universe since it's sequel debut in 1980, decades before the MCU
Crawler
Crawler - 11/25/2014, 11:05 AM
duey2000
duey2000 - 11/25/2014, 11:10 AM
The trouble with Rebels is the same problem that you have with any show set in an established universe using new characters. You have to introduce, establish, and develop characters. With the Clone Wars, you knew who most of the characters were, save Ashoka. With this show, there are no characters that we are familiar with. I also hate the idea of the Inquisitors. I don't know why we can't just have one or two main bad guys. Why do we have to keep coming up with them? Originally it was Darth Vader, then it was the Emperor. Then when we look back we find out that Palpatine had all of these other people, the Neimodians, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, and General Grievous. They just keep wanting to introduce new characters into the dark side, and all that it does is saturate the canon and make existing characters seem weaker. How intimidating was it when we thought that Vader was the only one that hunted Jedi? Now there is an inquisitor. Is Vader just sitting in his plastic bubble at home? C'mon...
zephyrrr
zephyrrr - 11/25/2014, 12:28 PM
I cant really use this site anymore because all the content is overlapped with ads for some reason....can't read. So long!
TheSoulEater
TheSoulEater - 11/25/2014, 1:15 PM

See more on Know Your Meme
Wolf38
Wolf38 - 11/25/2014, 2:32 PM
Interesting. It would give it greater stakes to be actually set contemporary to ongoing films, like the original Clone Wars microseries was, running in advance of Revenge of the Sith. (Then again, that hasn't convinced me to watch Agents of SHIELD.) I will check out Rebels at some point, but haven't yet.
Superfriends1975
Superfriends1975 - 11/25/2014, 4:19 PM
I'm really enjoying this show. I'm looking so forward to the new movies.
m0th3r
m0th3r - 11/25/2014, 4:26 PM
Wow...tons of rebels hate...

I am pretty easy going on cartoons..i watch most of them. Give it a shot if you have not watched it. I like it and think it better then Clone Wars...watchcartoonsonline has everything up to date..
PeterParker1991
PeterParker1991 - 11/25/2014, 7:13 PM
Clone Wars was awesome. Rebels sucks. Badly. I'm down for a new series as long as Rebels is erased from SW history
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