WHEN IT COMES TO transferring fan-favourite animated characters to live action, the Walt Disney Company effectively wrote the rulebook.
Over the last decade the studio has developed an extremely lucrative sideline making the likes of Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and most recently The Little Mermaid part of our world, so it’s hardly an earth-shattering revelation that the interstellar division of the Mouse empire is following suit.
Ahsoka, the latest Star Wars TV show to land on Disney+, is a spin-off from The Mandalorian, but it’s also built around characters who made their names one digitally rendered frame at a time. Title character Ahsoka Tano was Anakin Skywalker’s Jedi apprentice during the CG adventures of The Clone Wars, while the supporting cast is packed with heroes she met while they were collectively striking back against the Empire in Star Wars Rebels.
But there’s one key factor that distinguishes Ahsoka from those aforementioned Disney reboots. While those films were mostly faithful to the is a continuation of existing canon.
