Lucasfilm Reveals 'Ahsoka' Season 2 Is Officially In Development
The ex-Jedi and her close ally will not be so stranded anymore
I wasn’t sure if this necessitated an entire separate article like the trades are doing, but in choosing the right backlinks I realized because I hadn’t covered Ahsoka as it aired, what was available felt outdated. But luckily, there will be more to cover as Lucasfilm has confirmed that season 2 is in development for Disney+.
The reveal came at the very end of the Star Wars franchise website’s announcement of its new The Mandalorian and Grogu film directed by Jon Favreau. Thought to be the same Mandoverse film directed by Ahsoka creator and newly-minted Chief Creative Officer Dave Filoni announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe in April, Filoni’s film was listed among those in the film slate that the newly announced film leads. Of course, a general Mandoverse film would also mean more Ahsoka. In that listing, it mentioned the second season was something Filoni was developing. To have the company release such information than be talk on a carpet, it essentially meant the show was renewed.
Most directly a Mandalorian spin-off, Ahsoka continued the story of Ahsoka Tano, an ex-Jedi played here by Rosario Dawson, who was Filoni’s first creation of the Star Wars universe when he created Star Wars: The Clone Wars. At the start, Tahno was Anakin Skywalker’s padawan, but by this point she had long distanced herself from the practices. The series continues where the story of Filoni’s second series, Star Wars Rebels, left off. The series finale saw Jedi Ezra Bridger and the villainous Grand Admiral Thrawn hurled into deep space by star whales and they had yet to be found, though they would finally resurface in episode 6 of this series.
In addition to Dawson, Ahsoka season 1 featured Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as New Republic general Hera Syndulla, both of whom were Ezra’s crewmates on the Ghost, Lars Mikkelsen as Thrawn, Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, (the four of them in their live action debuts) and the late Ray Stevenson as Dark Jedi Baylan Skoll, with several appearances by Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker and David Tennant as the droid Huyang. The season originally ran from August 22 to October 3. debuted at No. 2 on Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals, accruing 829 million minutes viewed for the debut week.
