One of the newest Star Wars Disney+ sequence is on the way in which and it is a couple of character many superfans already know and love: Ahsoka Tano. Rosario Dawson stars as the previous Jedi Padawan, who was Anakin Skywalker’s apprentice in the course of the Clone Wars. After what appears like years of ready, the primary teaser trailer for “Ahsoka” lastly dropped on April 7, teasing what’s to come back within the action-packed sequence — together with a ton of lightsaber battles, after all, a primary have a look at the live-action model of the present’s villain, Thrawn, and the summer season launch date.
Ahsoka was first launched within the 2008 animated movie “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” and followers later adopted her journey via the “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” sequence earlier than the present formally ended with its seventh season in May 2020. They additionally noticed Ahsoka make a short look as an grownup within the 2014 animated sequence “Star Wars Rebels.”
Dawson debuted as live-action Ahsoka in a November 2020 episode of “The Mandalorian” and reprised the position in 2021’s “The Book of Boba Fett.” Her personal sequence, “Ahsoka,” which was introduced after that first look, will happen throughout the identical period within the Star Wars timeline, about 5 years after the occasions of “Return of the Jedi.”
“Ahsoka” went into manufacturing in 2022 and Dawson appeared on the Star Wars Celebration in May — which POPSUGAR was available for — that very same yr to preview the sequence. “It’s been simply such a thrill and honor to deliver this character to life and to really feel the vitality of everybody eager to see her come to life,” she mentioned throughout a panel. “As a fan, it has been thrilling to expertise it and see this story proceed.”
Here’s all the things we learn about “Ahsoka” to date, from the trailer and solid to the plot, timeframe, and extra.