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Hayden Christensen Will Return To Star Wars Yet Again For Ahsoka TV Show

Anakin Skywalker himself will return to live-action Star Wars for the new Ahsoka show on Disney+.

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It's a good day to be a Star Wars fan. Hayden Christensen will be returning to the live-action Star Wars universe for the upcoming Disney+ series Ahsoka, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It is unclear what Christensen's return will entail, exactly, and whether or not it will be exclusively as Anakin Skywalker or as Darth Vader or a mix of the two.

Earlier this year it was announced that Christensen would return as Anakin for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi TV show.

These two returns mark Christensen's first foray back into the Star Wars universe since his turn in the prequel movies. Despite this, however, the character Anakin has been plenty busy in the Star Wars animated universe where Ahsoka herself first reached a massive fanbase. In the animated shows, Anakin has most commonly been voiced by Matt Lanter. In The Clone Wars, Anakin became Ahsoka's master, training her as his Padawan.

Ahsoka, the show, like The Mandalorian, is set five years after Return of the Jedi, where Vader was killed, so it is likely that Christensen's role will be largely flashbacks to Ahsoka's past. Alternatively, he could also make his presence known as a Force Ghost--we simply don't have enough information yet to say one way or another. All other details of the show are being kept secret.

Production has not yet begun on Ahsoka, but work is scheduled to start in early 2022.

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This(former) super SW fan swears that

Hayden wasn't the problem, Natalie was!

Natalie Portman has no chemistry with any actor.

*See for yourself the next time you watch Episode-1

notice how /cringe all her lines are/were..

It's like she recorded them in a different location then everyone else in the scenes..

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@sippio: They’re both good actors who’ve done good work elsewhere. I’m pretty sure the issue with The Prequel Trilogy was that it was people trying to act on an entirely green set, with direction from somebody whose specialty was SFX and nobody could tell him anything he wanted was a bad idea.

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@sippio: They have no chemistry because he’s smiling at her very creepily. Their kiss on Geonosis was forced, yet she thought she was going to die. Episode 2 was cringe for the most part due to the bad writing behind Anakin and Padme who both had horrible lines to work with. The Obi Wan hunt of Jango Fett was cool though. And then when all those Jedi ignited their lightsabers on the battlefield… I think I experienced premature ejaculation. The Dooku confrontation was also great. Anakin is a childish, dumb and emotional character though so it is what it is. Hayden was much better in Jumper.

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@sippio: Hmmmmm..... chemistry...??? yeah that is why those movies sucked ass. She was fine, he was .... there. But the overall plot and development of the characters, movies, and settings was too heavily influenced by bean counters worrying more about merchandising then an actual story. Prequels - hardly ever work.

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@jenovaschilld: lol, um no. Bean counters were not the problem. That problem squarely lies with ALL the current Disney Star Wars films. They exist only for money. They sequels literally have NO STORY at all. Just situations to display what new toys will hit the shelves. The prequels were a mess but they did have a story and the characters had arcs. The handling of which was flubbed.

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@march202002: No that is what I meant Bean counters or accounts .... as like you said the story was more design around products then character arcs.

I am not sure where you are going with .... ALL the current Disney Star Wars films ... as the original topic post was the prequels not the sequels that were done by disney and yes.... they sucked. But even then the sequels were just too heavily focused in adapting the movies for mass market merchandising rather then a clear and focused story.

Poor Christian ... not a great actor back then, and really have not seen him in anything since.

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I don't care what people say, I like Hayden Christensen's interpretation of Anakin Skywalker.

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This guy is the male version of Kristen Stewart. He always has a dumb look on his face, and he’s super wooden. Not once have I seen him act well in anything. His line delivery is always awful. I’m talking aside from Star Wars. He has never been good.

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@stickemup: i like that darth vader is someone who doesnt get any other roles, or atleast mentioned anywhere. he grew as and into darth vader and doing any sort of recast is a retcon.

henry cavill seems to be on a row of wanting to be superman, geralt, bond and whatever else he can get on his plate. it means i will never truly see superman or geralt, i see henry cavill in a different color shirt. and if a series gets into trouble, he drops it instantly like hot plate. hayden is kinda tied to star wars good and bad whether he likes it or not. i have to appreciate that.

sean connery hated it but i liked how he was only bond while he was bond. then he got bored and went to do all sorts of weird cool roles when as a human he had already aged into different mold. but ofc in the 60s it wasnt even an option to play a dozen popular popculture characters so maybe it was just lucky.

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@stickemup: She was 10X more cringe with creepy facial expressions.

Actually they all do it but Natalie does it super cringe and all the time.

George made them all over-act. They needed to relax and make the

conversations more normal/realistic.

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They're gonna clone him. He's gonna rise from the dead, being force jesus and all...

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Ugh

He played Anakin Skywalker as a whiny little bitch. Hard to believe his character became Darth Vader.

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@henchman216: Agreed. The problem was the decision to start the 1st movie with a 10 year old kid who looks like a blonde lollypop.

~I remember in the early 90's when we we would walk to the 7/11 for bigGulps and talk about the CLone Wars and what the Jedi were like.

Nobody thought they wore those stupid robes. It was assumed that Ben Kenobi wore them because he was a hermit in BFE trying to stay lowkey.

Funny seeing Jedi at war in a battle wearing robes rotf. Lucas was high on his own supply for sure.

~Episode 2+3 shoulda been episode 1.

~Always wondered what Leo Decaprio as Anakin woulda been like.

We barely got any clone wars. E[pisode 2 ends with it starting and episode 3 starts with it ending.

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@sippio: what was 10 year old anakin supposed to look like? missing an eye and half mechanical jaw? all the kids in ROTS jedi temple looked like anakin aka all 10 year old kids

if you simply didnt like seeing young anakin then ok, i guess the movie could have shown obi wans and other past without anakin

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@sippio: "We barely got any clone wars."

All that typed out, and so wrong.

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Vader dies!?

How about a spoiler alert! Jeeeeeeez

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if the originals are 10 or 9, by comparison the 7 of prequels is awful. but when the sequel trilogy is a 4 or 3 its super easy to appreciate the prequels and wonder if it was some of the best and last content to ever come. mandalorian is a cool spinoff but i really have hard time imagining mainline movies will ever work again. coming back from a 3 is nigh impossible

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@PrpleTrtleBuBum: Ehh, the prequels are ****. They didn’t get better just because the sequels are also **** for different reasons.

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@PrpleTrtleBuBum: " 4 or 3" who are you kidding Bro.

They were so bad that i am no longer a SW fan of anything Disney/SW.

Every single aspect of the story is trash.. They were so bad that it seems intentional. No Jedi, No Luke, Han & his son are total failures. Yeah not my canon.

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Good, I know its not a popular belief but I think he did the best he could with what he was given. I have a whole new kind of respect for the prequels after the recent sequel trilogy.

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@heidern98: The lore of the Prequels is significantly better than the Sequels, Clone Wars series elevated it up further fleshing out and properly pinning down what Lucas was going for.

Unfortunately recently, Disney have tried to re-write it to patch up "Rise Of Skywalker", changing key aspects as to be nonsensical, namely Darth Plagueis. Can check out "Star Wars Theory" for more on it, but needless to say, not impressed with what they are doing.

Dave Filoni dope. Can easily see this being the best Starwars content since CW final.

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@uninspiredcup: I wont accept any of it..

The Force Awakens is the problem not the garbage after it..

TFA sets up the awful setting that can only be created by someone who hates SW and wants it to fail or someone who only cares about a Political agenda..

No Jedi,,No Luke, No new students, No Han & Leia in the Falcon.

No Han & Leia & Luke Kids besides the weirdo emo.

Jacen was 100x's the character that Kylo was..

a [art of me died when TFA released.

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@heidern98: It's not really a belief it's just a fact. The scripts in the star wars movies are terrible. You can easily tell when it had effort put into it. And when the director fished something out of the garbage that still has garbage juice on it.

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Hopefully the Ahsoka show focuses on her searching for Ezra

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