More details on Star Wars Resistance, including the return of Greg Proops, more on racing, and details on actor Bobby Moynihan’s character, who hasn’t had an official reveal yet. We also get some insights on why they picked the show’s timeline placement of six months before The Force Awakens.
“It’s a little hard for the younger fans to wrap their heads around it if it was, say 15 years before The Force Awakens,” [Head writer Brandon] Auman explains. “Then it’s a very nebulous timeline. You’re kind of not sure. The fact that we’ve got Poe Dameron and BB-8 from the very beginning — kids and any fan of any age automatically just know… ‘This is the new movies, this is where it’s gonna take place,’ so it’s just easier. And it was just fun to kind of roll in and back up a little bit instead of just trying to follow exactly where the movies are at.”
The show will even overlap with The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi… Eventually.
→ StarWars.com has interviews with voice actors Christopher Sean (Kazuda Xiono), Suzie McGrath (Tam Ryvora) and Josh Brener (Neeku Vozo).
→ Some Databank additions: Aunt Z and the show’s main setting, the Colossus, which is revealed to be on “the Outer Rim water planet of Castilon.”
→ On a downer note, we’ve also seen some despicable behavior from a member of the show’s voice cast. As of yet, Lucasfilm hasn’t addressed it.
→ And finally, a new clip featuring Kaz, Jarek, Tam, Neeku and BB-8: