“The Bendu represents to Thrawn somewhat of an enigma. Are they ever going to have as much hardware as Thrawn to fight with and let alone his tactical genius?”īut the third season’s finale also showed us that Thrawn is not all-knowing: Even as the Rebels retreated in defeat, the grand admiral was mystified by the elusive dark-light Force presence of the Bendu (Tom Baker), whose intervention prevented the Rebels’ total destruction at Thrawn’s hands. They’re trying amass all of these ships, they’re trying to amass all of these starfighters, and one has to start to wonder what’s going to be the point of that. So he’s operating from a position of having total control of Lothal now, and the Rebels in some ways are being deconstructed. Which is what you want you want him to be a really important character and to be a villain that is affecting everything. “So I think it’s interesting to see the effects of Thrawn. “It takes a lot to draw them out because they lost so big,” he said. Star Wars Rebels executive producer and supervising director Dave Filoni “He’s also tempered their aggressive tendency, which you can see the after effects of all the way into Rogue One, where they’re incredibly hesitant to actually fight on a larger scale.”įiloni clearly relishes being a part of this TV-movie dynamic, and driving the story of the desperate Rebel Alliance of Rogue One and A New Hope. He in his mind has really set back … the Rebel fleet with a pretty crushing blow,” Filoni said April 15 at a press conference following the Rebels panel at Star Wars Celebration Orlando.
“Thrawn in Season 4 is operating from a position of victory. The character, lifted from Timothy Zahn’s popular “Expanded Universe” tie-in novels and reintroduced in Season 3 of Disney XD’s Star Wars Rebels, set out to crush the Rebellion - and according to executive producer and supervising director Dave Filoni, the Imperial master strategist, performed by Lars Mikkelsen, is fully confident he’s on track to do just that. Grand Admiral Thrawn applies his appreciation of art toward the defeat of the Empire’s enemies. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn EmailĪs if there was ever any doubt, Grand Admiral Thrawn has achieved arch-villain status in the Star Wars universe - only now it’s official, on screen, this time.