“Ahsoka” will return to Disney+ on January 20, 2027, more than three years after its first season ended, Lucasfilm announced Friday night at D23. The streamer unveiled a teaser trailer during the Disney Entertainment Showcase in Anaheim, giving fans their first look at a season that reunites Ahsoka Tano with the Force ghost of her former master, Anakin Skywalker.
Series creator Dave Filoni appeared onstage alongside stars Rosario Dawson, Hayden Christensen and Eman Esfandi to debut the footage. The trailer opens with Christensen’s Anakin questioning Ahsoka before cutting to a snowy Clone Wars-era flashback and a lightsaber duel against a mysterious opponent. Christensen called playing the role an honor and said Anakin continues pushing Ahsoka toward the central question of her arc: whether she still considers herself a Jedi.
The new season picks up where the first left off. Ahsoka and Sabine Wren, played by Natasha Liu Bordizzo, remain stranded on the distant planet Peridea after failing to return home at the close of season one. Ezra Bridger escaped back to the main galaxy with Grand Admiral Thrawn in pursuit, and the trailer confirms Thrawn has resumed his campaign against the New Republic. Esfandi’s Ezra is shown reuniting with Hera Syndulla, played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, while the footage teases a lightsaber battle involving the droid Huyang.
One casting change accompanies the new season. Rory McCann, best known for playing Sandor “The Hound” Clegane on “Game of Thrones,” takes over the role of Baylan Skoll following the 2023 death of original actor Ray Stevenson. Dawson described the new season in sweeping terms, saying the stakes and battles have both grown substantially, with Thrawn’s threat looming over Ahsoka, her allies and the wider galaxy.
The premiere date carries symbolic weight. It lands about a month before the theatrical re-release marking the 50th anniversary of the original 1977 “Star Wars” film, a timing Filoni has called a fitting nod to his decades of work across the franchise’s animated and live-action projects.
