What you need to know about Star Wars Rebels season 3, including trailers, clips, story details, rumors, & premiere date!
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Return Date
The next episode of Star Wars Rebels season 3 is called "The Antilles Extraction" and it will premiere on October 8, 2016.
Here is a synopsis of the episode: "Sabine goes undercover as a cadet in the Empire's elite flight academy to help break out several young pilots wanting to defect to the rebellion."
Here is a clip from the episode:
You can read a review of the previous episode here.
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Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episodes
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 1 & 2: Steps Into Shadow
Ezra, having grown in power, leads a mission to break the crew's old friend Hondo Ohnaka out of prison. Meanwhile, Grand Admiral Thrawn -- a master Imperial strategist -- has vowed to dismantle and destroy the growing rebellion.
Original airdate: 9/24/16
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 3: The Holocrons of Fate
When Maul takes the crew of the Ghost hostage, Ezra and Kanan must pass a trial in order to recover an ancient Sith artifact to save them.
Original airdate: 10/1/16
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 4: The Antilles Extraction
Sabine goes undercover as a cadet in the Empire’s elite flight academy to help free several young pilots who want to defect to the rebellion.
Original airdate: 10/8/16
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 5: Hera's Heroes
Hera’s rebel supply mission to Ryloth becomes personal when she and the Ghost crew brave overwhelming Imperial forces to recover a memento from her ancestral home.
Original airdate: 10/15/16
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 6: The Last Battle
Original airdate: 10/22/16
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Trailers
A new teaser has been released for Star Wars Rebels season 3, focusing on Ezra and that rather chatty Sith Holocron. We've added it to our pile of promo clips...
It looks like Grand Admiral Thrawn will be paying a visit to Ryloth, homeworld of the Twi'leks, in Star Wars Rebels season 3. In a new clip, Hera and Ezra come face to face with Thrawn during some sort of sneaking mission. Hera is disguised as a servant to the Imperials while Ezra sneaks around as a Stormtrooper when they meet the Grand Admiral, who decides to interrogate Hera.
Check out the clip below:
Another Star Wars Rebels season 3 clip introduces the great Tom Baker as the mysterious creature the Bendu. Check out the clip below:
The Bendu describes himself as someone between the light side of the Jedi and the dark side of the Sith. He seems to be some kind of representation of balance in the Force. What a great touch to have Baker voicing this character. It's like the Doctor and Freddie Prinze Jr. are having a conversation!
Ezra is closer to the dark side than ever before in another clip from Star Wars Rebels season 3, which will see the young hero struggle between what his master, Kanan, has taught him about the Force and what he's learned from Old Master, aka Darth Maul. Check out the clip below:
You've probably heard by now that Grand Admiral Thrawn is back in Star Wars continuity, thanks to Dave Filoni, who's made him a major villain in Star Wars Rebels season 3. A new trailer outlines Thrawn's plan. He looks more menacing than ever:
The first trailer for Star Wars Rebels season 3 has arrived! Ezra is getting closer to the Dark Side, Kanan has a badass new look, young Imperial pilot Wedge Antilles wants to defect to the Rebellion, Y-Wings, the return of Darth Maul and Grand Moff Tarkin, a squad of Mandalorians that work for the Empire, and one big surprise!
Watch it below:
The rumors were true! Grand Admiral Thrawn, the dastardly Imperial villain from Timothy Zahn's trilogy of novels, is now part of the new Star Wars canon. The Chiss admiral will appear as the big bad for Rebelsseason 3. Here's your first look at the villain from the Rebels panel at Star Wars Celebration 2016:
Thrawn will be voiced by Lars Mikkelsen, brother of Mads Mikkelsen, who is playing Galen Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
The Star Wars Show has given us our very first look at Rebels season 3, and it's a clip you won't want to miss. The clip starts at about 3:40. Check it out:
It definitely looks like the rumors are true: we'll see an older, more powerful Ezra in the third season of the show. He's also carrying a green lightsaber as opposed to his customary blue saber/blaster hybrid. It looks like he's gone through some changes in the time between seasons.
Interestingly enough, every member of the Ghost crew makes an appearance in the clip except Kanan, who suffered a cruel fate in the season 2 finale. It'll be interesting to see the crew's new dynamic now that Kanan has been permanently injured
A second clip for Star Wars Rebels season 3 premiered at Star Wars Celebration. You'll definitely want to see this one:
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Story
During Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016, showrunner Dave Filoni sat down with Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka Tano), and Star Wars story group member Pablo Hidalgo to talk about the untold stories of Ahsoka Tano. While the panel unveiled old story arcs starring the young Jedi padawan that were never produced, Filoni dropped one tidbit about the future of Rebels that made many fans raise an eyebrow.
Simply put, Filoni teased that Ahsoka could return in a future Rebels episode, even though her exit at the end of season 2 seemed to be final. Filoni said that fan reaction to the finale and the character has made him possibly change his mind about ending Ahsoka's story.
"It just might be possible. It doesn’t necessarily mean what some of us would hope it means. But it might be possible to see her again. She might have something to do."
If Ahsoka survived the duel with her former master, will she rejoin the Rebels in their fight to destroy the Empire? And if she died at the hand of Darth Vader, will she appear to Ezra and the rest of the Ghost crew as a Force ghost? So many questions that will undoubtedly be answered in Rebelsseason 3.
You can watch the full panel below:
Speaking to Moviefone, Star Wars Rebels producer Simon Kinberg has revealed some interesting details about what the third season of the show may have in store for the past and future of the Star Wars saga.
He teased that we'll continue to see nods to the original films, but more importantly, we may begin to see Rebels introducing things that will play into future films. Could Rebels tease something that's in Episode VIII, for example? Here's Kinberg himself:
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.
We're already seeing this happen with Rebels' predecessor, The Clone Wars, whose character Saw Gerrera is set to appear in Rogue One in December. If Lucasfilm is sticking to the strategy of using animated characters for its live-action films, then there are plenty of characters in Rebels to choose from. May we see Ahsoka or Kanan in live-action at some point? Ezra, perhaps?
Showrunner Dave Filoni had a chat with io9 at Star Wars Celebration about the upcoming season of Rebels, discussing the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn and the future of the series.
One of the big issues with bringing back such a major character like Thrawn is the fact that he doesn't play a part in the Original Trilogy. It's a notable absence, especially since Thrawn was/is the greatest admiral in the Imperial fleet. Filoni has it figured out, though:
We need to know what our end game is for this character, [and] I think [that] is exciting. You go through a number of questions. ‘Does he survive? Does he not survive?’ We’ve been the architects of that as we’ve been going. I think we have a nice path figured out for Mr. Thrawn. I wouldn’t bring him back lightly without that plan.
In fact, this extends to Ezra and the rest of the characters on the show, who've certainly become important enough to fit into the events of the Original Trilogy. Says Filoni:
I love to give a lot of Tolkien references. But [in those stories] Faramir is kind of doing his thing, Frodo is doing his thing, Aragorn is doing his thing, everybody’s got their different movements. If you really study, Elrond was doing his own thing, Galadriel was doing her own thing, in the Iron Hills they were doing their own thing and it’s amazing how he orchestrated all that. So even bits that weren’t necessarily in the books, he knew what was going on. And when you take on mass continuity like this, that’s what you’re really getting at. You have to understand the world and all the moving parts of it. And I think the challenge is you want each story to be original and exciting.
Filoni reasons that while all of these characters are absent from the movies, they're still out there, doing their part outside of the big screen. The Lord of the Rings logic is sound here.
This also brings up the interesting idea that, since the Galactic Civil War stretches to Return of the Jedi, the Rebels characters could very well still be fighting throughout those events. We could potentially see Ezra and the Ghost crew fighting on the other side of the galaxy during the attack on the Death Star II...
We have surmised, over the years, that the Rebellion isn’t technically over until Return of the Jedi and even then there was some additional fighting that lead up to Jakku. So when is the ultimate victory that would mean Hera and company are free of the fight? Well, it doesn’t seem to be for a long time. So it’s not impossible and there are probably a lot of stories, I’m just gonna try and tell the most important ones for them, what their saga is, and probably not every saga ends on the same day.
What this could mean is that Filoni has a very longterm plan for Star Wars Rebels that stretches beyond A New Hope and into and past the Galactic Civil War. We've seen many Clone Wars characters make the transition into Rebels, too. Could Rebels make way for a post-RotJ animated series?
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Cast
Katee Sackhoff will reprise her role as the Mandalorian Bo-Katan Kryze from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. According to Nerdist, Sackhoff reportedly told an audience at Oz Comic-Con that she's recorded new lines for Rebels season 3.
Sackhoff is joined by Tom Baker, the great Fourth Doctor from Doctor Who, who is playing the Bendu, a creature powerful in the Force.
Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Images
Check out the new poster for Star Wars Rebels season 3:
And here are the first images for the upcoming season:
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