Star Wars Rebels co-creator Simon Kinberg indicated that the show's third season might connect with future Star Wars movies in an interview with Moviefone. Kinberg bought this up while discussing how the show bought in characters from Star Wars: Clone Wars for the second season. Kinberg states:
"What's lovely is, obviously, we've brought in characters from ‘Clone Wars' in the second season, and we keep sort of bringing characters from the original movies and sort of deepening the relationships between our core characters, the Ghost crew. So it's trying to balance the two different things, like the original cast from the first season with ‘Clone Wars,' with characters from the original movies, and maybe even feeding into future movies."
Kinberg also discussed the "shared universe" aspect of Star Wars where there are several different Star Wars stories across media that nonetheless take place in the same universe. He said "I think part of the fun of the way they're building the universe is that it is interconnected between the different movies and even beyond the movies."
He compared this to the shared universe in Marvel and DC Comics, explaining " It's something that was true in comic books going back, the way that you'd have interconnections between characters and stories. Even sometimes from DC to Marvel. I like the way that those stories are told in the larger tapestry. "
Kinberg also didn't hold back about overjoyed he was to be part of that shared universe and work with other creators. "I'm very excited [...] getting to work with other artists and filmmakers and writers, and use their talents — I like not being by myself in a room when I work. I like having other collaborators. You're with some of the world's best."
Star Wars Rebels is a CGI animated series that airs on the Disney channel. It is set fourteen years after Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It follows a motley crew of rebels on a starship who go on various adventures near or on the planet Lothal. The third season will premiere sometime in 2016, but the exact date is unknown.
I like Kinberg's enthusiasm about the shared universe. That's an aspect of Star Wars I really enjoy to. I wonder what future movies season three could tie into. It's been speculated there might be a tie-in to the young Han Solo movie, given that the time period of the show could work with that. What do you think Star Wars Rebels Season 3 will bring?
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