Live-Action ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’? Hayden Christensen Says The Cast Is Interested

Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) successful Lucasfilm's STAR WARS: AHSOKA

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The pieces are successful place. Dave Filoni is now moving the imaginative broadside of Star Wars aft the departure of Kathleen Kennedy. Filoni has been bringing his animated Clone Wars and Rebels characters into live-action projects for years now. He’s recruited Hayden Christensen to reprise his domiciled arsenic Anakin Skywalker crossed 2 seasons of Ahsoka. He’s recovered a cleanable Clone Wars-era Ahsoka successful the young Ariana Greenblatt.

Well, wherever do you think things could caput next?

The thought lurking successful the shadows is that alternatively than conscionable individual characters, existent communicative arcs from the agelong saga of the beloved Clone Wars series could beryllium remade aliases adapted into live-action. Fans are highly divided astir that prospect, but the group astir willing successful the thought look to beryllium the actors themselves.

On the Hey Jonas! podcast (yes, that is the Jonas Brothers), Hayden Christensen was interviewed and asked astir the prospect:

"I cognize that Ewan McGregor would emotion to do much pinch it. I've heard Natalie [Portman] would emotion to travel back. Sam Jackson. So you could get the set backmost together.”

No 1 has been much vocal astir wanting his characteristic to return to screens than Ewan McGregor, who would jump astatine the chance to do much pinch Obi-Wan done aged aliases caller stories. Samuel L. Jackson has frequently discussed the thought that his character, Mace Windu, was not really killed successful the prequels, and has asked many times to bring the characteristic back, moreover asking Mandalorian head Bryce Dallas Howard to talk to Lucasfilm astir it, and it turns retired she really did.

Natalie Portman has “no information” astir perchance returning arsenic Padme but says she is “open to it.” In her case, the only measurement she could would apt beryllium thing for illustration a Clone Wars remake, arsenic fixed the destiny of her characteristic it seems improbable she could get a Sam Jackson-style rewritte.

Finally, location is the 18-year-old Ariana Greenblatt, who would efficaciously beryllium the prima of the show arsenic a young Ahsoka, having appeared successful flashbacks successful 2 seasons of Ahsoka now. The only point she appears to person said connected the matter is that she and Christensen “laughed and talked about” a imaginable bid pinch the 2 of them. It would look evident she would jump astatine the chance.

There are, of course, galore problems pinch this idea. One is that loads of fans do not for illustration the conception astatine each and would want The Clone Wars to enactment arsenic its ain entity, which is already historical successful the Star Wars universe. Remaking it seems some unnecessary and for illustration much imaginative bankruptcy from a Star Wars beingness that seems permanently attached to the Skywalker era.

There’s besides the truth that the big formed has aged 20 years since they were past seen successful Revenge of the Sith. And this is simply a communicative group betwixt that movie and Attack of the Clones. Christensen and McGregor, done nary responsibility of their own, whitethorn person to beryllium perpetually de-aged onscreen for a bid for illustration this for it not to consciousness a small goofy. It’s 1 point to do this successful little flashbacks, it’s different to do it for an full tally of a show.

We do not cognize if this will happen, but it seems intolerable to norm retired pinch Dave Filoni successful complaint and the full formed perchance connected board. We’ll see.

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