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SETH GREEN WILL VOICE A CHARACTER IN STAR WARS REBELS

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When you’re in trouble and need to contact Rebel command, you might have to resort to desperate measures. That’s what Kanan, Sabine, Ezra, and Zeb have to do in next Monday’s Star Wars Rebels. They pirate/borrow—if you want to use a friendlier term—a mining guild crawler with long range communications gear in order to get in touch with Hera, presumably so she can save their skins. Nerdist is happy to announce that Seth Green will be making his Star Wars Rebels debut as the Trandoshan in charge of that crawler, Captain Seevor. And we happen to have an exclusive clip showing Seevor in action.

As you can see in video, Seevor is none too happy about the Rebel invasion happening on his ship. He’s just a guy trying to meet his output quotas. Seevor probably thought he was going to have a normal, boring day in the office. Instead, Rebels board his ship, and Ezra does a terrible impression of him.

This isn’t Green’s first time voicing a character in the Star Wars universe. In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he played the Pantoran Ion Papanoida and Cad Bane’s droid Todo 360.

“Crawler Commandeers” will air on Disney XD on Monday, November 6.

Dave Filoni On Star Wars Rebels Final Season and His Future Role In Star Wars

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After Disney bought Lucasfilm, the first new part of the Star Wars saga they produced was Star Wars Rebels. Early on the show defined what the franchise’s new canon would and could become in a post-George Lucas world. But now, just as the movies are getting ready for their second act, Rebels is ready for its final one.

For its first three seasons, executive producer Dave Filoni and his team have told the story of Ezra Bridger, a young boy strong with the Force, who befriends a rogue group working as part of a growing Rebel Alliance. Along the way, the show has introduced several new fan favorite characters, as well as featured appearances from Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Maul, Lando Calrissian, Princess Leia, Mon Mothma, and others. But even when the show connects to the movies, it’s always been focused on the journey of Ezra, Kanan, Hera, Zeb, Sabine, and Chopper, and their role in fighting the Empire.

Now the fourth and final season is here, which means finally answering some of the most important questions the show has raised. Where are the Jedi Ahsoka, Kanan, and Ezra during the emergence of Luke Skywalker? How does Grand Admiral Thrawn fit in with Darth Vader and the Emperor? And did any of these rebels play a part alongside Luke, Han, and Leia over the next few years?

“Everything [in season four] is kind of magnified,” Filoni told io9. “You have to look at the whole season and say, ‘This is all the space I have to tell this story of how this all goes.’ So you can’t waste anything. Especially knowing where the galaxy’s at by the end of it. We have a pretty good idea based on the films what we’re dealing with. So those are the challenges. But I have to say I’m pretty pleased with how it all worked out in the end.”

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DAVE FILONI DISCUSSES THE FINAL SEASON OF STAR WARS REBELS

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Endings aren’t easy, not even when it comes to fictional characters. Creators become attached to the characters they write, animate, and otherwise shape. Fans form connections with characters they view as heroes, inspirations, and friends. But despite the sadness that comes with saying goodbye, endings are necessary. And when a series can close the final chapter on its own terms, those endings can be a gift to fans. They’re a chance to resolve storylines and answer questions. Star Wars Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni and his team will do that–to some degree–in the final season of the animated series.

Star Wars Rebels is about to kick off its fourth and last season, and Filoni can’t decide which story thread he’s most looking forward to fans seeing come to fruition. He told Nerdist, “That’s a hard one. I don’t want this season to be one answer after another, but I wanted to make sure there are things we’ve set up that we pay off and that you feel you got some answers. There are some big time explanations and reveals that are unlike anything we’ve done, and there are also other levels of weirdness that I’ve added to make up for that fact.”

As the show weaves through its final episodes, fans will find the installments feed into each other more than in previous seasons. “I’ve been able to build a lot better connections and motivations across all the episodes as we go. It is very unlike other seasons, because while the episodes are self contained, they are very next to each other in progression,” Filoni said, “They affect each other more; it’s more serialized than you’re used to.”

“THERE ARE SOME BIG TIME EXPLANATIONS AND REVEALS THAT ARE UNLIKE ANYTHING WE’VE DONE.”

The crew of the Ghost has become family to each other and to Star Wars fandom, and the people behind the scenes are aware of the stakes. “Whatever happened to Ahsoka, what is going on between Kanan and Hera, or what happens to Ezra, Sabine, and Zeb, and what about Hot Kallus? All of these things are things that are in our mind. They sometimes have large answers and sometimes smaller answers, and sometimes things that might not have a definite answer, but give you enough of an ability to understand and then wonder about it–which is sometimes the best kind of answer.”

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