Via Nerdist.com:

Season three of Star Wars Rebels will be available on Blu-ray on August 29, and it means you can relieve the introduction of Grand Admiral Thrawn to official Star Wars canon. He was introduced to the galaxy in Timothy Zahn‘s Heir to the Empire trilogy in the early ’90s. The blue-skinned Chiss villain became a beloved character in the Expanded Universe, now known as Legends, so bringing him into the current storytelling universe was no small undertaking. You can get an idea of what it took to inject Thrawn into Rebels in our exclusive behind-the-scenes video from the Blu-ray release.

My biggest takeaway from the video is how many people at Lucasfilm are serious fans of Thrawn and the novels in which he was introduced. Everyone from Lucasfilm senior vice president of development Kiri Hart, to Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni, to senior concept designer Amy Beth Christenson share fond memories of meeting Thrawn through the pages of Zahn’s work. Along with their enthusiasm, they have a kind of reverence for the character.

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