Hayden Christensen to Return as Anakin Skywalker in Disney+’s Ahsoka
Did you just feel a great disturbance in the Force? There’s a good reason.
Hayden Christensen, who played Anakin Skywalker in two Star Wars prequel movies, will reprise the role in the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars offshoot Ahsoka, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ahsoka stars Rosario Dawson as the Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano, a role she first played on The Mandalorian last year. (The character of Ahsoka debuted in the animated Clone Wars films and series.) Star Wars veteran Dave Filoni is writing the series, which was first announced last December, with The Mandalorian‘s Jon Favreau on board as an executive producer. Production is slated to begin early next year.
Ahsoka Tano was Anakin’s Padawan, or apprentice, in Star Wars lore, but the series is set around the time of The Mandalorian, years after Anakin/Darth Vader’s death in Return of the Jedi. So it’s unclear at this point if Anakin will appear in flashbacks or as a Force Ghost in the series.
Christensen starred as Anakin Skywalker, aka the future Darth Vader, in 2002’s Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones, and then returned as Anakin for 2005’s Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. He’s also set to appear as Anakin/Vader in Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, with Ewan McGregor returning to star as the titular Jedi.
I’ve been enjoying the disney+ TV streaming stuff more than a lot of the latter SW movied. So, this sounds good.
Oooh, intriguing!
Should be interesting, loved The Mandalorian so far and looking forward to Obi-Wan and Boba Fett. Didn’t watch The Clone Wars though, so have only seen Ahsoka in The Mandalorian.
I always thought he was one of the weaker spots of the prequel movies, but hopefully he’ll be good in this endeavor
Honestly it was weak Bc of the bad writing. But he’s a great actor and obviously so is Natalie Portman
Hayden is a good actor but he was awful as Anakin and there was virtually no chemistry with Natalie P.
As Dennis said above, it was (IMO) bad writing. George Lucas, by his own admission, isn’t good at dialog. The films would have been much better, again IMO, if he’d got someone else to write the screenplays and he did the story.
Agreed that the script was bad but so was his acting. I don’t blame him for the lack of chemistry with NP. Hit or miss kinda thing.
Amazing news!!!!! Love him
Impressive. Most impressive.
Ugh, cause he was turrible in the prequels, but I trust Dave Filoni to make it work.
I shall leave my response to this news in the form of an Anakin Skywalker quote.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOO!!”
This is where the fun begins