Lucasfilm has formally confirmed Star Wars: Visions season 2 will launch on Might 4, 2023 – celebrating Star Wars Day in essentially the most thrilling approach.
Lucasfilm has confirmed Star Wars: Visions season 2 will launch on Might 4, 2023, with shorts produced by animation homes resembling Aardman, El Guiri, and D’artwork Shtajio. The primary season of Star Wars: Visions was a shock hit, providing viewers the possibility to expertise an entire new type of Star Wars tales. Every animated brief provided a recent interpretation of Jedi, Sith, and the Skywalker saga as an entire, and Star Wars: Visions season 1 was praised for each the originality of its writing – unburdened by the complexity of canon and lore – and the fantastic thing about its animated type. No person was stunned when Lucasfilm booked a second season.
Star Wars: Visions season 2 is increasing into new animated kinds, and Lucasfilm has now formally confirmed it should launch on Might 4, 2023 – historically considered as Star Wars Day. Lucasfilm has confirmed the titles of the 9 episodes and the animation homes the studio has labored with for every one:
- “Sith,” from the Spanish animation home El Guiri
- “Screecher’s Attain,” from Eire’s Cartoon Saloon
- “Within the Stars,” from Chile’s Punkrobot
- “I Am Your Mom,” from Aardman within the U.Okay.
- “Journey to the Darkish Head,” from South Korea’s Studio Mir
- “The Spy Dancer,” from the French firm Studio La Cachette
- “The Bandits of Golak,” from India’s 88 Photos
- “The Pit,” from the Japanese firm D’artwork Shtajio and Lucasfilm
- “Aau’s Music,” from the South African animation home Triggerfish
Star Wars: Visions Affords Stunning Reinterpretations Of George Lucas’ Franchise
The primary season of Star Wars: Visions was a exceptional success, largely as a result of it deserted questions of Star Wars canon and continuity, giving Japanese animation homes an opportunity to flex their artistic muscle groups. “The response to the primary quantity of Star Wars: Visions blew us away. We had been delighted that this mission impressed and resonated with so many individuals,” noticed James Waugh, Star Wars: Visions government producer and senior vp, Franchise Content material & Technique, at Lucasfilm, in an official press assertion. “We all the time noticed Star Wars: Visions as a framework for celebratory expressions of the franchise from a number of the finest creators working at the moment. Animation is in a world renaissance, and we’re continually staggered by the quantity of creativity pushing the medium ahead.” Probably the most well-known studio concerned in season 2 is undoubtedly the award-winning Aardman Animations, finest recognized for Wallace & Grommit and Hen Run.
Star Wars Visions season 1 could not have been canon, nevertheless it felt like a lovely approach of paying homage to the ideas and concepts of George Lucas. That makes Lucasfilm’s determination to launch season 2 on Star Wars Day appear so very applicable, and the episode titles are certain to depart viewers thrilled on the prospect of extra artistic reinterpretations of the Star Wars galaxy. Aardman’s episode bears the title “I’m Your Mom,” inverting Darth Vader’s basic line within the authentic trilogy – and presumably inverting a number of the dynamics as effectively. It is potential it is a galaxy the place Padmé Amidala fell to the darkish facet; not Anakin; tie-ins have confirmed Darth Vader all the time believed Padmé would help the Sith, and it is thrilling to think about that situation taking part in out.
Little doubt Lucasfilm may have nonetheless extra bulletins regarding Star Wars Day 2023 – nevertheless it’s onerous to think about something extra thrilling than Star Wars: Visions season 2. The primary season was ground-breaking, and the second guarantees extra of the identical. Hopefully it will not be lengthy earlier than Lucasfilm launch an official trailer, giving viewers a glimpse of the thrill to come back.
