Danish actor Lars Mikkelsen will play Galactic Empire Grand Admiral Thrawn in Star Wars: Ahsoka, Lucasfilm announced on Wednesday. twitter.
The new members of the project were announced at the Star Wars Celebration event. Among them is Lars Mikkelsen, who voices the villain in the animated series Rebels.
Grand Admiral Thrawn starred in The Thrawn Trilogy, a series of fantasy novels by American author Timothy Zahn. It takes place five years after the events of the Star Wars expanding universe, Return of the Jedi.
Ray Stevenson, who starred in The Punisher: The Territory of War and King Arthur, and actress Ivanna Sakhno from Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Spy Who Dumped Me and other movies will also star in the series. They will play the villains Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati.
Ahsoka is scheduled to premiere in August 2023.
Previously on the official Star Wars YouTube channel seen Ahsoka’s trailer.