Throughout a panel at Star Wars Celebration over the weekend, Hayden Christensen confirmed that Anakin Skywalker will return in Ahsoka Season 2, saying: “There’s not a lot that I can share, however Anakin might be again for season 2.”
This comes after his temporary however emotional look as a Drive ghost within the World Between Worlds throughout Season 1, a second that was very thrilling for longtime followers of “Skyguy” and “Snips.”
However Christensen isn’t simply fascinated with the post-Return of the Jedi stuff. He’s additionally bought his eye on the interval proper after Revenge of the Sith when Anakin Skywalker formally grew to become Darth Vader, a damaged man trapped in a mechanical jail of his personal making. And he thinks there’s loads left to mine there.
Christensen informed ComicBook: “There’s loads that we may nonetheless discover with Vader. I feel from the place we left off, after Episode III, and all the things that he has to reconcile after he’s trapped on this new model of himself, there’s simply a variety of very wealthy tales that we may nonetheless inform.”
That darkish area between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope has been fertile floor for Star Wars storytelling, principally in animation and comics. The Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence reunited Christensen with Ewan McGregor for a rematch, whereas Marvel’s Darth Vader comics, significantly the 2017 run written by Charles Soule, dove deep into Vader’s early days underneath Palpatine.
That sequence confirmed Vader adapting to his new armor, establishing his purple lightsaber, and even constructing his fortress on Mustafar. Soule described it as “Vader: 12 months One,” and it’s precisely the sort of story Christensen is speaking about.
He added: “I like the character, and I’d like to get to proceed with it, and so hopefully we’ll get to do extra of it.”
So, will we see Christensen swimsuit up as Darth Vader once more? Nothing’s official but, however between Ahsoka and Lucasfilm’s renewed curiosity in exploring the Skywalker Saga’s darker corners, I’d wish to suppose the chances are wanting fairly good.
