What is it? We have no idea.
The panel schedule for next month's Star Wars Celebration Anaheim has inadvertently revealed the new series, which is described as an animated anthology. Tales of the Jedi will be an anthology of shorts. Clone Wars, Rebels, Mandalorian, and Ahsoka producer Dave Filoni will be at the panel, perhaps suggesting that the series is in part overseen by him and Lucasfilm animation, rather than something like Star Wars Visions, which gathered talents from multiple Japanese studios to develop their own individual
We don't know anything about the series other than its name and the fact that it has a panel with Filoni at Celebration. There is no information on when it is set and who it follows. It could follow the Jedi of the High Republic, it could follow the generals on the front lines of the Clone War, and it could even be set after Return of the Jedi or The Rise of Skywalker.
It could go back even further. Star Wars fans know the name Tales of the Jedi. The Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi comic book series began in 1993 and was one of the first to tell stories in the time of the Old Republic. The rise and fall of characters like Jedi-turned-Sith Ulic Qel-Droma and Exar were told thousands and thousands of years before the movies. This setting formed the basis for some of Star Wars' earliest chronological explorations of the galaxy far, far away, and would lay the groundwork for beloved stories like Knights of the Old Republic.
Time will tell what Tales really is, if it is something as grand as stories of ancient Jedi and Sith, or something as simple as a return to Clone Wars.
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