Via Nerdist.com:

The loth-wolves of Lothal have continued to play an important role in Star Wars Rebels since their first appearance in “Flight of the Defender.” They led Ezra and his fellow rebels safely away from the Empire, and their story isn’t through. In the trailer for the back half of the final season, the beings are prominent. We see them appearing to have Ezra’s back in a fight, and we see a huge dire-sized wolf, too. The Princess Mononoke influence is strong, and Rebels executive producer Dave Filoni told Nerdist it’s probably his favorite animated film of all time, but also said Never Cry Wolf was a strong influence when he was adding wolves into Rebels. “One of my purposes was having wolves as the avatar for this Force type character was  to give kids another positive image of a wolf. There are so many negatives around the wolf,” he explained. “So this is just another positive, I hope, representation of the animal while still respecting that there is a duality there, as all things in nature have.”

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