Star Wars: Visions will launch September 22 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar, Disney-owned Lucasfilm introduced at Anime Expo Lite on Sunday, together with a three-minute sneak peek. There shall be a complete of 9 quick movies within the anthology animated sequence Star Wars: Visions, which is able to function a fallen Jedi, a princess, Japanese iconography, a “Star Wars rock opera”, a droid who needs to be a Jedi, and Luke and Leia-type twins born to the darkish facet of the Drive amongst others. Given Star Wars was impressed partly by Japanese samurai films, it is solely becoming that Star Wars: Visions is lastly embracing a Japanese type too.
Here is the total checklist of the 9 Star Wars: Visions quick movies and the studios behind them:
- Kamikaze Douga, “The Duel”
- Kinema Citrus, “The Village Bride”
- Geno Studio (Twin Engine), “Lop and Ochō”
- Manufacturing IG, “The Ninth Jedi”
- Science Saru, “Akakiri”
- Science Saru, “T0-B1”
- Studio Colorido (Twin Engine), “Tatooine Rhapsody”
- Set off, “The Twins”
- Set off, “The Elder”
The largely black-and-white “The Duel” will star Samurai-esque Jedi and Sith, along with an astromech droid with a straw hat. Star Wars: Visions government producer James Waugh mentioned: “The factor [director Takanobu Mizuno] was actually clear on was that he simply wished this to be a love letter to Star Wars. The core theme of this quick finally ends up being such a Star Wars story.”
“The Village Bride” is a couple of fallen Jedi, however “not in a approach you’d count on.” It is instructed by the eyes of a bride on her wedding ceremony day eve, as she should make an sudden alternative to avoid wasting her individuals. Star Wars: Visions producer Kanako Shirasaki mentioned: “It is poetic, meditative, and romantically bittersweet. [‘The Village Bride’] additionally approaches the Drive in a very distinctive and shocking approach, too.”
Area bunny-person Lop leads “Lop and Ochō”, who’s described as cute, expressive, and “utterly unwavering in her devotion to good and household and loyalty” by Star Wars: Visions government producer Jacqui Lopez. “Lop and Ochō”’s design type centres on the distinction between “pure magnificence and encroaching industrialisation.”
“The Ninth Jedi” is the fusion of two shorts beforehand imagined: one the place the daughter of a lightsabersmith seeks out the Jedi who’ve fallen into legend, and one other the place eight warriors uncover that they is likely to be Drive delicate. Manufacturing IG are additionally behind Ghost within the Shell and Kill Invoice’s anime scene. “The Ninth Jedi”’s rating was recorded at Muza Kawasaki Symphony Corridor in Kawasaki.
“Akakiri” is the “lovely but painful story” of a princess, with Astro Boy sound designer Matsuo Ohno lending his famend skills. Science Saru’s different quick, “T0-B1” follows the aforementioned Jedi-dreaming droid that is described as “extra heartwarming fare” than “Akakiri”.
With “Tatooine Rhapsody”, Star Wars embraces Chibi artwork type because it chronicles a band’s journey. Boba Fett and Jabba the Hutt will function. Star Wars: Visions government producer Josh Rimes mentioned: “It is a Star Wars rock opera. We took an opportunity they usually simply blew us away with the type and the characters and the tone, and actually the center of what’s finest in Star Wars about discovered household and the dream.”
Say good day to new darkish side-twins in “The Twins” that goals to subvert the concept of Luke and Leia, and showcases “how far the brother will go to avoid wasting his sister,” Star Wars: Visions co-executive producer Justin Leach mentioned. The twins have their very own particular co-joined Star Destroyer.
And that leaves “The Elder”, which pays homage to a “traditional Star Wars grasp and Padawan relationship,” Shirasaki added. “You will additionally discover the twin which means of the title after you watch the quick.”
“We actually wished to provide these creators a large artistic berth to discover all of the imaginative potential of the Star Wars galaxy by the distinctive lens of anime,” Waugh mentioned at Anime Expo Lite. “We realised we wished these to be as genuine as attainable to the studios and creators who’re making them, made by their distinctive course of, in a medium they’re such specialists at. So, the concept was, that is their imaginative and prescient riffing off all the weather of the Star Wars galaxy that impressed them — hopefully to make a very unbelievable anthology sequence, not like something we have seen earlier than within the Star Wars galaxy.”
Star Wars: Visions premieres Wednesday, September 22 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. It was first revealed at Disney’s huge investor presentation final December.