Via Ign.com:

Disney has reportedly already decided when it’s setting its follow-up to Star Wars Rebels, with new rumours suggesting it’ll take place during the upcoming sequel trilogy.

Slashfilm reports an unnamed source has heard Disney will do between three or four seasons of Rebels before jumping ahead into the upcoming trilogy timeline, as it’ll have been established by the release of Episode VII at that stage.

f this turns out to be the case, it’d mean we wouldn’t see this reported follow-up until 2017 or 2018 at the earliest, so it’ll likely debut around the time Star Wars: Episode VIII hits screens, giving Disney two movies in which to set the scene. Despite this, the source also claims we should expect all-new characters to feature in the series.

While it’s far from confirmed and, especially with this much distance, things could always change, it does make a certain sort of sense. The Clone Wars animated series lasted six seasons — though its ending was truncated by its sudden cancellation after Disney bought Lucasfilm — and like Rebels, was set during a very contained period that doesn’t allow a lot of wiggle room for creativity. It’s a struggle to see us moving past A New Hope, though it’s possible Rebels could end leading into the rumoured Boba Fett heist movie we’ve been hearing so much about.

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