We get our first look at Zeb, an alien rebel based on original Ralph McQuarrie designs and voiced by Steve Blum in Star Wars: Rebels.
We are only now getting our first official promos for the highly anticipated Star Wars: Rebels, but more characters are being unveiled, which brings us to Zeb. As debuted at IGN(video below), Zeb will be voiced by actor Steve Blum and is a nifty original creation from an alien race previously unseen…save for the conceptual art of Ralph McQuarrie from the original 1977 Star Wars, because Zeb is one of the unselected visions of Chewbacca!
“I think I actually screamed when I was booked to play Zeb,” Blum said to IGN. “It is literally a role of a lifetime. I’ve been lucky enough to play some major superhero roles in my career, but to be given the chance to play a new character in a Star Wars series? Brain explosion.”
Set in the vastly untapped era of storytelling space between Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars, the show Star Wars: Rebelshas a wide birth of about 20 years to explore new stories and mythologies from long before the construction of the first Death Star.
Star Wars: Rebels will premiere with a two-hour movie event this summer on Disney XD, which will be followed by a series of shorts to introduce the characters. The show will make its official debut in the fall!
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