{"id":594682,"date":"2026-08-16T04:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594682\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:04:21","slug":"christensen-returns-as-anakin-in-ahsoka-season-2-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594682\/","title":{"rendered":"Christensen returns as Anakin in Ahsoka Season 2 teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Hayden Christensen can be seen returning to his Star Wars role as Anakin Skywalker in a new trailer for the second season of Disney&#8217;s Ahsoka.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer, which was released at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Experience, shows the 45-year-old appearing as a force ghost of the jedi who goes on to become Darth Vader in the film franchise, to his apprentice Ahsoka Tano, played by Rosario Dawson.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, he tells her: &#8220;Tell me Ahsoka, what troubles you? I\u2019m always walking by your side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The trailer also shows a series of gun battles, lightsaber duels and starship battles.<\/p>\n<p>Anakin later adds: &#8220;This is your trial Ahsoka, are you a jedi, or not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch: Star Wars: Ahsoka Season 2 teaser trailer<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"Fdar7gTQnog\">\n<p>According to Disney, the new series will see Ahsoka &#8220;confronting what it means to be a jedi, while the galaxy faces a formidable opponent in Grand Admiral Thrawn&#8221;, as she travels home with her own jedi apprentice Sabine Wren.<\/p>\n<p>Ahsoka takes place after the events of the film Return of the Jedi (1983).<\/p>\n<p>The series will be released on January 20, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>D23 also saw a teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter film starring Ryan Gosling, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, and Aaron Pierre screened exclusively for those in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>A Disney synopsis for the film reads: &#8220;When a cynical rogue is confronted by his mysterious past, he is hurled into a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a crash course with destiny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars: Starfighter, directed by Shawn Levy, will be released on 28 May, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Hayden Christensen can be seen returning to his Star Wars role as Anakin Skywalker in a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-594682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}