Anakin Skywalker hates sand, and he hates staying dead even more. Hayden Christensen, the actor who played Star Wars villain Darth Vader in his Dark Side years Attack of the clones and Revenge of the SithHe returns to the role that made him notorious.
Corresponding The Hollywood Reporter, Christensen will repeat his role in Ahsoka, the upcoming live-action Disney Plus series starring Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano, the former apprentice of Anakin Skywalker and the renegade Jedi who appeared in season 2 of The Mandalorian.
The strange thing about Christensen’s casting is that Ahsoka is set at about the same time as The Mandalorian – five years later Return of the Jediwhen Darth Vader is dead. There are several ways to get around this – an obvious one is flashbacks, another is reminiscent of a recent change Return of the Jedi To be Christensen’s face edited as the power spirit by Anakin Skywalker. Given Ahsoka’s rich history with Anakin as his apprentice in The Clone Wars Animated series, there is a lot to be drawn from.
This is in addition to Christensen’s previously scheduled appearance as Darth Vader in the Disney Plus series via Obi-Wan. not how Ahsoka, Obi Wan Kenobi takes place during the fall of the republic, between Revenge of the Sith and A new hopewhen Anakin had just assumed the form and cyborg body of Darth Vader, and he’s very, very angry.
Ahsoka is still a long way off, but production is reported to begin in 2022. Obi Wan Kenobi‘s release is also TBD.
