With Ahsoka set to premiere on Disney+ later this summer and the first trailer having arrived at last week’s Star Wars Celebration, Deadline reports further casting news as The Expanse’s Wes Chatham joins the next Star Wars series as the “right-hand man” of Grand Admiral Thrawn, played by Lars Mikkelsen in a reprisal of his voice role from Star Wars Rebels.
The plot of Ahsoka is being kept under wraps, but it will pick up on a subplot of Ahsoka’s appearance in The Mandalorian as she searches for Thrawn just as he is about to return to the galaxy with a resurgent Empire. Based on this and what was teased in the trailer, the series will be inspired by Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars novel Heir to the Empire, which introduced Thrawn and saw him leading the Imperial Remnant against Luke Skywaler, Princess Leia, Han Solo and the New Republic.
Chatham is know for starring in all six seasons of the sci-fi series The Expanse as Amos Burton, a ship’s mechanic who had an unwavering loyalty to his crewmates and an ease with violence. He has also starred in The Hunger Games franchise and Escape Plan 2: Hades.
Ahsoka stars Rosario Dawson as the titular Ahsoka Tano, Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger, Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla, Ray Stevenson as Baylan Skoll, Lars Mikkelsen as Grand Admiral Thrawn, David Tennant as Huyang, Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma, Diana Lee Inosanto as Morgan Elsbeth and Ivanna Sakhno as Shin Hati.
Ahsoka premieres on Disney+ August 2023.
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Originally published April 14, 2023. Updated August 18, 2023.
