Originally published August 10, 2016. Updated December 16, 2019.
Star Wars Rebels has already featured the origin of the B-Wing, and is set to introduce Y-Wings in its upcoming third season, but as yet there’s been no indication that we’ll be seeing the Rebellion’s most iconic fighter, the X-Wing. Slash Film went direct to creator and showrunner Dave Filoni to ask if we’ll be seeing a squadron of X-Wings in the Disney XD series.
“Everybody wants X-Wings, you know,” states Filoni. “It’s a tricky thing in Star Wars because now we have so many things going on across so many platforms. That, you know, when you’re creating a show and you’re able to create, you know, stories in Star Wars, I try to see well how can we make this different? So one of the choices that we made early on was that we weren’t gonna have X-Wings at least early on in the show. We’ve done B-Wings. Now we’re doing Y-Wings. But I’ve tried to stay away from a lot of the original trilogy kind of New Hope backbone stuff, because that, I want that to be clearly this is not that story. We’re a different cell.”
“If and when X-Wings do show up it’ll probably be awesome,” he continues. “Kiri Hart and I always talk about Empire of the Sun. We love the movie Empire of the Sun. And to me the X-Wing moment, this is probably a giveaway, will be like the Cadillac in the sky moment when the P-51s come to the camp where the kid is. It has to have that kind of feeling behind it. That you’re so excited to see these things. Then they have value again. As opposed to just saying, oh look there’s an X-Wing. You know, I want them to appear in a moment of oh my gosh, I’ve been waiting for this.”
Season three of Star Wars Rebels is set to get underway on September 24th, and you can watch the trailer here.
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