Rosario Dawson Teases Sabine Wren Possibly Being In Live-Action 'Ahsoka' Series
The internet can be a strange creature (as if you didn’t already know this). Sometimes, a single tweet is enough to stir up all kinds of speculation. In this case, however, it wasn’t even a tweet, but simply a click on the little heart below a tweet, that sparked the rumor mill:
A few days ago, Rosario Dawson liked a tweet that claimed that Sabine Wren will make her live-action debut in the upcoming Ahsoka series. For many, this came close to a conformation that the art-loving and spray-painting Mandalorian will actually be a character in the upcoming show for Disney+.
When Star Wars Rebels came to its end after four seasons on March 15, 2018, the epilogue of "Family Reunion – and Farewell" was more or less a promise of a “to be continued,” as in the last scene we see Sabine leaving Lothal together with Ahsoka Tano, in order to find the missing Ezra Bridger. Ever since then, there have been rumors of an animated sequel show that deals with the search for the missing Jedi. And now it seems as if this continuation will rather be in a live-action format. Recent rumors even claim that some of the scripts that were written for an animated Rebels sequel will now be used for the Ahsoka show.
When Rosario Dawson appeared in the episode 5 of season 2 of The Mandalorian, the purpose of her confrontation with Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth was to find the whereabout of Grand Admiral Thrawn.
(Sidenote: Interestingly enough, she called Thrawn Elsbeth’s "master," which is strange as the Chiss is clearly neither Jedi nor Sith, but was part of the Imperial Navy where there are no ranks of master and slave. It will be interesting to learn if Thrawn met Elsbeth before he vanished, while he was gone, or after he returned from presumably the Unknown Regions – but this is a topic for another time.)
A few days after the episode "The Jedi" aired, Vanity Fair did an interview with Rosario Dawson and Dave Filoni, in which the latter, in his typical vague manner, stated that the epilogue of Rebels doesn’t necessarily take place before the events of The Mandalorian, so let’s take a look at what we actually know and what we can assume:
Amy Ratcliff’s book Star Wars: Women of The Galaxy (2018) more or less defines a 5-year time gap between the liberation of Lothal (shortly before the events of A New Hope) and the epilogue. and although it is “only” a reference book and not an in-universe story, this is probably the closest we got so far to an actual confirmation on when in the timeline Ahsoka and Sabine start their search for Ezra.
But this 5-year gap doesn’t quite match to what we actually saw: The epilogue starts with Sabine standing on the same tower on which Ezra stood during the first scene of Rebels. In the distance, we see Capital City, which is made up of many high towers or skyscrapers. Sabine’s monologue states that the Empire never came back after the liberation of Lothal, so it seems that the planet could have been relatively quiet and untouched during the time of the Galactic Civil War. But still, building all these towers in just half a decade seems like an awfully short period of time.
Then we see Hera Syndulla, flying the Ghost with her son Jacen. Hera obviously must have been pregnant at the end of season 4 of Rebels, and if we assume that a Twi’lek pregnancy and the growing up of a Twi’lek kid happens at approximately the same speed as that of humans, Jacen looks more like he’s 8 or 9 years old, than just 5. And these 9 years would put the epilogue in the same timeframe as The Mandalorian.
Ultimately, we’ll just have to wait and see. Chances are that sooner or later serious rumors will spill out about whether Sabine Wren will actually be a character in the series (as was the case with Ahsoka and Rosario Dawson).
The amount of her involvement, however, will still very much depend on when in the timeline the series will take place and how much time passes between the events on Corvus and Ahsoka landing on Lothal to pick up Sabine: Will Ahsoka’s search for Thrawn before meeting Din Djarin and Grogu be told just in flashbacks, or will the events of Ahsoka actually start prior to those of The Mandalorian and then continue afterward?
Finally, we still don’t know if Elsbeth actually gave Ahsoka any information on where to find the Chiss Admiral, so maybe there will be an episode (or again, at least a flashback scene) that tells the events on Corvus from the point of view of the Togruta. And maybe the information she gets from the Magistrate will be enough for her to fly to Lothal and to continue her search together with Sabine.
But it wouldn’t be Dave Filoni if the events in Ahsoka didn’t somehow connect to the ending of Rebels.
As for the casting of Sabine – if the epilogue of Rebels does actually happen at 5 ABY, Sabine would be 26 years old then, and it probably won’t be too hard to find an actress of that age with an Asian background who would be willing to color her hair purple and put on a Mandalorian armor for this role.
Any suggestions on who should play Sabine?
Source(s): Murphy’s Multiverse