According to THR, Ray Stevenson is set to join the Star Wars universe with a leading role in Ahsoka, the next live-action series for Disney+.
We don’t know all that much about Ahsoka at the moment, but it’s expected that the series will involve the former Jedi travelling from one end of the galaxy to another in search of Grand Admiral Thrawn. During Ahsoka’s first live-action appearance in The Mandalorian, she questioned Magistrate Morgan Elsbeth regarding the whereabouts of Thrawn. As for who Ray Stevenson will play in the Star Wars series, that’s currently being kept under wraps, but THR’s sources say that he will be a villain in the series and will play an Admiral, but apparently the character is not Thrawn. This won’t be Ray Stevenson’s first time in a galaxy far, far away, as he also voiced Gar Saxon in Star Wars: Rebels.
Dave Filoni, who is executive producing and writing the Ahsoka series, said last year said that the writing process has been thrilling.
It’s something you imagine doing for a long time. And then it’s kind of startling when you’re sitting there, and now you have to do it. I thought of this adventure for Ahsoka for a long time, and it’s interesting to see how it’s evolved. Years ago, I never would have imagined that it was sprung from a branch of a tree that had anything to do with a guy [like] Din Djarin, or a child that looks like Yoda. It’s a great lesson for me on how, when you have other creatives like Jon Favreau, they can help lend such dimension and depth to what you’re doing.
Rosario Dawson will once again be reprising her role of Ahsoka Tano in the series, which will also star Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, the Mandalorian warrior who starred in Star Wars: Rebels, Ivanna Sakhno as a newly created character, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a mystery character. Ahsoka will also see Hayden Christensen returning as Anakin Skywalker, which will actually be the second time he’s reprised for a Disney+ series as he will also appear in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Production on Ahsoka is expected to kick off this April in Los Angeles.