While not yet confirmed by the House of Mouse (Disney) or the Source of the Force (Lucasfilm), reporting heavyweights Deadline are claiming that Australian actress Natasha Liu Bordizzo has been cast as Sabine Wren in the forthcoming Ahsoka series on Disney Plus, reuniting her with Ahsoka Tano five years after the events of Return of the Jedi, presumably to search for their long-lost friend Ezra Bridger.
Natasha Liu Bordizzo (The Society) has been cast as a lead opposite Rosario Dawson in the Disney+ limited series Star Wars: Ahsoka, a spinoff from the streamer’s hit series The Mandalorian, I have learned. I hear Bordizzo will be taking on the character of Sabine Wren from the Star Wars Rebels animated series. Reps from Lucasfilm and Bordizzo did not return emails seeking comment.
(P)rior to dropping in on The Mandalorian to assess the Child, Ahsoka was last seen in the series finale of Rebels, where she and Wren set out to find Bridger, who had been whisked away by the Purrgil.
Sabine Wren, who was voiced on Rebels by Tiya Sircar, is a young Mandalorian warrior and graffiti artist, Imperial Academy dropout and a former bounty hunter with expert knowledge of weapons and explosives.
Ahsoha, which is eyeing a March production start date, according to a ProductionWeekly listing, also is expected to feature an appearance by Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker, who would reunite with his Jedi Padawan, Ahsoka, likely in flashbacks as the series is set five years after Return of the Jedi.
Her CV includes smash-hit projects (Detective Chinatown 2 took $544.2 million, more than The Greatest Showman which made $435 million) so let’s hope this casting comes to pass and Lucasfilm are able to confirm – or deny, as always, this isn’t fact until Lucasfilm say so – soon.
