Star Wars Rebels: The New Star Wars Animated Series From Disney

It's official, Disney has just announced a new animated series called Star Wars Rebels, already in production, and whose one-hour pilot will be broadcast in fall 2014 on Disney Channel (USA).

The following episodes of the series will air on the Disney XD channel.

At the controls of this new animated series produced by Lucasfilm Animation, we find Dave Filoni (The Clone Wars), Greg Weisman (The Spectacular Spider-Man, Young Justice) and Simon Kinberg (X-Men: First Class, Sherlock Holmes).

The action in the Star Wars Rebels series will take place between theEpisode III Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV A New Hope, or about two decades.

The pitch is simplistic but we don't ask for more at this stage. The animated series will explore the adventures of characters about whom little is known at the moment "... in a time where the Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy and hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking shape ..."

An official presentation of the series accompanied by the broadcast of the first extracts will take place during Celebration Europe II which will take place from July 26 to 28, 2013 in Essen, Germany.

I'll be there, just to see if LEGO does not also reserve us some exclusivity for the occasion ...