Star Wars has released a new official trailer for Ahsoka, giving audiences the first full look at live-action Grand Admiral Thrawn.
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Star Wars has provided a first look at Lars Mikkelsen’s Grand Admiral Thrawn in a new trailer for Ahsoka. The marketing for the Ahsoka Disney+ TV show is now kicking into high gear, with the highly-anticipated series set to begin streaming in August on Disney+. Attendees at Star Wars Celebration 2023 were given a first glimpse of the live-action Grand Admiral Thrawn, played by Lars Mikkelsen, the actor who voiced Thrawn in the Star Wars Rebels animated show.
Lucasfilm has officially released a new trailer for the Ahsoka Disney+ TV show, including a first glimpse of the blue-skinned, red-eyed Grand Admiral Thrawn.
Thrawn is the only nonhuman to ascend to the rank of Grand Admiral in the Empire. He hails from the Unknown Regions of the galaxy, a vast unexplored area of space Emperor Palpatine was particularly interested in.
Live-Action Thrawn Is Finally Revealed
Thrawn first debuted in the Legends novel Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, serving as the antagonist for the original trilogy heroes in what’s now called the Thrawn Trilogy. Though his EU story was wiped with the slate, Thrawn was brought into canon as the primary villain of Star Wars Rebels seasons 3 and 4, and has since been the focal point of two more canon trilogies by Zahn. The Grand Admiral disappeared in the Rebels series finale, but he’s finally set to make his live-action return in Ahsoka.
Viewers will naturally be excited to compare the live-action and animated Thrawn. Although some recent Star Wars aliens have come in for criticism (notably the Grand Inquisitor in Obi-Wan Kenobi), Lucasflm understood they had to get Thrawn right. Grand Admiral Thrawn isn’t only the villain of the Ahsoka Disney+ TV show; he’s expected to be the main antagonist in a Star Wars movie set to wrap up the first wave of Mandalorian era Disney+ series. The Ahsoka trailer sets him up perfectly, suggesting Thrawn will feel as iconic for viewers as he did for readers introduced to him in Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy.