🔴Every Star Wars Movie Actor Who Returned For The Clone Wars🔴
0Every Star Wars Movie Actor Who Returned For The Clone Wars
Star Wars: The Clone Wars redefined the franchise for television and showed what could be done through animation, and many Star Wars movie actors jumped at the chance to reprise their roles. Following the conclusion of the Star Wars prequel trilogy in 2005, George Lucas believed the saga's future was on the small screen and began developing multiple TV shows. The live-action Star Wars: Underworld was canceled for budgetary reasons, but The Clone Wars debuted with a theatrical release in 2008 and gave a few prequel trilogy actors one last outing on the big screen.
However, some actors in The Clone Wars movie did not voice their respective characters for the TV series, while others only returned for a few episodes. A couple of actors constantly appeared or became recurring characters, adding consistency between the Star Wars movies and TV shows as the crew expanded the prequel era. By the end of The Clone Wars' seven-season run, 10 Star Wars movie actors had returned to voice their characters, while a few more had their lines reused.
George Lucas decided to rework the first episodes of The Clone Wars TV series into a theatrical movie to introduce the show to mainstream audiences, and a few prequel trilogy actors were convinced to return because of it. Samuel L. Jackson had played Jedi Master Mace Windu in all three prequel films and voiced the character again for The Clone Wars movie, where he continued to lead the Jedi Order alongside Master Yoda. However, Jackson would not return for the TV series, and Terrence Carson voiced Mace Windu for all seven seasons of The Clone Wars.
Even so, Jackson would end up voicing the character a few more times, both directly and indirectly. Mace Windu was one of the many Jedi spirits who spoke to Rey in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, and some of Jackson's dialogue from Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith was repurposed for The Clone Wars season 7, episode 11 "Shattered." Jackson has expressed interest in returning to Star Wars in past interviews, so it's possible that he will play Mace Windu again in live-action or animation.