News on the 2017 Return of “Star Wars Rebels”; Premiere Date/Trailer and More!
A Rogue One character returns to his animated roots.
Not much is known about Disney XD’s new year scheduling just yet, but things are starting to heat up. This morning, we told you about the network teasing Pokemon: Sun & Moon, Milo Murphy’s Law creator Swampy Marsh is teasing a block of episodes on the way, and now we’re getting some news about the future of Star Wars Rebels.
Set to return in a two-part episode on January 7th, 2017 entitled Star Wars Rebels: Ghosts of Geonosis, Parts One and Two, we now know that Forest Whitaker will be his reprising his Rogue One role of “Saw Gerrera”. Saw was first introduced in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series.
Here’s your first-look at the character in the upcoming episode.
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs