Executive Producer Dave Filoni, voice actress Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla), and art director Killian Plunkett joined David Collins today at WonderCon to preview and discuss the upcoming animated series Star Wars Rebels. Here are the most interesting tweets from the panel:
#StarWarsRebels panelists include Dave Filoni, Vanessa Marshall, and Killian Plunkett.
— Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) April 19, 2014@CoffeeWthKenobipic.twitter.com/rYRqS0Ts1q
— OUATFanPCJeffRoney (@ouatpodcast) April 19, 2014Showing the spark Teaser again #StarWarsRebels
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014#StarWarsRebelspic.twitter.com/oEylvy6Qnx
— Jeremy Conrad (@ManaByte) April 19, 2014.@dave_filoni says Rebels has “A more unified look, top to bottom than Clone Wars ever had,” noting Clone Wars took years of evolution.
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014Vanessa Marshall on working for the show: We have so much fun I almost feel guilty. #StarWarsRebels
— Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) April 19, 2014Filoni: It's a rather new expierence to have so many people reference Clone Wars now. Vanessa knows it backwards and forwards. #StarWars
— Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) April 19, 2014Filoni says @vanmarshall has a deep knowledge of Clone Wars & gets excited reading the scripts. #WonderCon#StarWarspic.twitter.com/WJvTXwyMto
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Lots of Hera discussion, with more concept art. #WonderCon#StarWarspic.twitter.com/e9GKHGTKuX
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Kilian Plunkett and @dave_filoni say there were “about 50 versions of Zeb” before they settled on his species/look. #starwarsrebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014Hera concept designs: #starwarsrebelspic.twitter.com/SaNbSaZL7f
— Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) April 19, 2014We just saw brief Star Wars Rebels scene where Hera flips the Ghost over a TIE Fighter and behind it, shooting it down #starwarsrebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014When the TIE Fighter blew up, I do believe the explosion had a bit of the halo effect the 1977 FX had in the movies. Nice! #StarWarsRebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014We just saw brief Star Wars Rebels scene where Hera flips the Ghost over a TIE Fighter and behind it, shooting it down #starwarsrebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014"Star Wars has to make you laugh." -Dave Filoni
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014When the TIE Fighter blew up, I do believe the explosion had a bit of the halo effect the 1977 FX had in the movies. Nice! #StarWarsRebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014"Chopper's a jerk." -Dave Filoni #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014.@dave_filoni brings up the Artoo = dog, Chopper = cat analogy. He’ll do things on his own time or with a lot of resistance. #StarWarsRebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014The palette of Ralph McQuarrie's early work heavily informs everything about Rebels. #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014According to Dave Disney has been very supportive of what Lucasfilm has been doing on #starwarsrebels
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014Dave Filoni: I want you guys to know Star Wars is still in the same hands as it has always been. #StarWarsRebels
— Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) April 19, 2014.@dave_filoni praises @joelaron for making those TIE Fighter explosions "feel exactly the same” as in A New Hope. #StarWarsRebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014"We want to give you the most authentic #StarWars as you've come to expect." -Filoni on the feel of Rebels. #WonderCon
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014That looks so awesome! RT @coheteboy Rebels concept art looks great! #starwarsrebelshttp://t.co/Xn7YCotr4o
— Johnamarie Macias (@BlueJaigEyes) April 19, 2014Dave confessing his love of Tangled, had Keith Kellogg to look at animation and facial riffing of characters
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014Rebels has a, "flowy, traditional" feel as opposed to the near realism of Clone Wars. -Killian Plunkett #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Rebels is more classically “animated”, less trying to capture realism than Clone Wars. @dave_filoni says it took him back to Airbender days.
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014More concept art. #WonderCon#StarWarspic.twitter.com/s4Ja0UhBBC
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Speeder bikes concept! RT @MikeRoe This render from #StarWarsRebels is making a roomful of nerds imagine. #WonderConpic.twitter.com/tg5wTXqalj
— Johnamarie Macias (@BlueJaigEyes) April 19, 2014"#StarWars is a feeling you get when you watch it. It can't be one thing, it has to run the gamut." -Dave Filoni #WonderCon
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Filoni says from the first episode to the last, it will be about and focus on the main group of people/heroes. #StarWarsRebels.
— Amy Ratcliffe (@amy_geek) April 19, 2014"It's taken 8 years, but we're finally getting paid to draw Stormtroopers." -Killian Plunkett #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Filoni notes that #StarWarsRebels will focus on the same core characters throughout. Hera, for example, is in every episode of Season 1.
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014No plans to do an episode on Coruscant
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014"There are still plenty of cool Imperial locations, just not necessarily Coruscant." -Killian Plunkett #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Dave just confirmed Lothal is in the Outer Rim
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014Who will score Rebels? Kevin Kiner will score #StarWarsRebels
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014Kiner is here. Notes that Lucas didn’t want the Star Wars movie themes much in Clone Wars. #StarWarsRebels will include them much more.
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014Rebels "sounds a lot more like A New Hope." -Kevin Kiner #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014We are about to here the #StarWarsRebels theme by Kiner pic.twitter.com/FAgfziOlQf
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014The Rebels theme immediately evokes the classic trilogy, with hints of the new stories to come. #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Just heard the main theme to Rebels - includes pieces of Rebel music from ROTJ and the Force theme. #StarWarsRebels
— Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) April 19, 2014"I'm really privileged to be part of the greatest myth of the 20th & 21st centuries." Kevin Kiner, on scoring Rebels. #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Dave brought a family cosplaying on stage pic.twitter.com/8q9jc2e82u
— Rebels Report (@RebelsReport) April 19, 2014Filoni to the Rebels cosplay family: "Already? Uh... Hope you enjoy the show."
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014And with a, "May the Force be with you." David Collins concludes the panel. #WonderCon#StarWars
— TheForce.Net (@theforcenet) April 19, 2014Special thanks to Amy Ratcliffe, Rebels Report, Jeremy Conrad, Eric Goldman, TheForce.net, and others for their great tweets!