While we’ve gotten something of a look at the events prior to The Force Awakens through the Poe Dameron comic book series from Marvel, Disney has bigger plans for that era with Lucasfilm as they’ve announced an anime-inspired style Star Wars Resistance series. With plans for it to premiere with a special this fall on the Disney Channel, it’ll then shift to Disney XD. The project will be using some of the familiar cast from the films with Oscar Isaac reprising his role as Poe Dameron and Gwendoline Christie as Captain Phasma among others to be revealed. It’ll also obviously be bringing in new characters while BB-8 will be feature fairly regularly one might imagine.
The project is one that will definitely be intriguing to see as Dave Filoni is working on this after working on both Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.
Filoni was quoted as saying, “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.”
The announced cast beyond the film actors include Christopher Sean (Days of Our Lives), Suzie McGrath (East Enders), Scott Lawrence (Legion), Myrna Velasco (Elena of Avalor), Josh Brener (Silicon Valley), Donald Faison (Scrubs), Bobby Moynihan (DuckTales), Jim Rash (Community) and Rachel Butera (Tammy’s Tiny Tea Time).
Plot Concept: The series follows Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and tasked with a top-secret mission to spy on the growing threat of the First Order.
