While Disney and director J.J. Abrams
are focusing towards the future of Star Wars, some are looking at its past to
tell a new story.
In an interview to EW, executive
producer Simon Kinberg talks about exploring the roots of the rebellion in Star
Wars Rebels.
"I always loved origin
stories and the origin of an entire organization, I don’t think we’ve seen that
before, and we’ve approached it in a real-world way. If I told the story of the
American Revolution, I wouldn’t want to start with the most famous battle, I’d
want to start when it was just four guys in a room, the earliest spark of that
seems dramatic and cool. That’s a big part of the fun of it, the little
back-room dealings, the first time you see it’s possible to stand up to the
Empire."
Kinberg also says that fans will
get to see a galaxy completely dominated by the Galactic Empire.
"The world we’re creating is
an Imperial world. You’re seeing the impact of the Empire, of Stormtroopers
around the galaxy, abusing and oppressing people. Thematically and politically,
it goes to some dark places. But for the tone of the show we took our cues from
the original movies, which had fun and adventure and swashbuckling with emotion
and grounded human characters. We took all our cues from the original films.
Obviously there are slight tonal differences between New Hope, Empire and Jedi.
But I think the closest intended voice of the show is A New Hope. So there are
places where we get into darker backstories, there are places we see how cruel
and malevolent the Empire can be, but for the most part it’s a fun and
character-driven story."
He then teases fans by saying
that the series aesthetics will be very different from The Clone Wars, but
similar to the concept art of Ralph McQuarrie.
"The intention of what I’ve
seen so afar, and we’re pretty far down the line, the intention is for it to
feel quite different from Clone Wars. The place we went back to as to a visual
template was Ralph McQuarrie, who was one of the original concept artists for
the original Star Wars films. His art is softer, a little more figurative, more
of a feel of being drawn, less computer generated. The first few movies had a
bit of a hand-made quality. We wanted the show to have that. There’s also in
the archives where [creator George] Lucas keeps all the original art and props,
there’s tons of art that’s McQuarrie’s musing on the Star Wars universe that
was never used in the films. There’s places where we’ve quite literally taken
world-creation or vehicles or creatures from his original art that was never
used in the films and made that part of show."
Star Wars Rebels is set to
premiere in the Fall of 2014 as an one hour special on the Disney Channel and
then as a regular series on Disney XD channels around the World.
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