Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion

Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion is a forty-four minute long (one-hour with commercials), two-part animated television movie that serves as the series premiere for the animated television series Star Wars Rebels. The film premiered online for verified users of WatchDisneyXD.com on September 26, 2014, and made its television debut on Disney Channel on October 3, 2014. Spark of Rebellion was released on commercial DVD on October 14, 2014. The movie re-aired on the ABC Network on October 26, with a new prologue featuring Darth Vader and the Grand Inquisitor.

The canon story takes place five years before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope and introduces the crew of the Ghost, a band of rebels who fight against the Galactic Empire and who will one day help spark the rise of the Rebel Alliance. The plot primarily centers around fourteen year old orphan Ezra Bridger as he joins the crew of the Ghost and learns he can use the powers of the Force. Ezra and the crew—Order 66 survivor and former Padawan Kanan Jarrus, pilot Hera Syndulla, Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren, Lasat warrior Zeb Orrelios, and astromech droid Chopper—learn that Wookiee slaves are being taken by the Empire to the spice mines of Kessel and launch a mission to rescue them, all while being pursued by Agent Kallus of the Imperial Security Bureau.

Spark of Rebellion was executive produced by Dave Filoni, Simon Kinberg, and Greg Weisman, written by Kinberg, and directed by Steward Lee and Steven G. Lee. It stars Taylor Gray as Ezra, Vanessa Marshall as Hera, Freddie Prinze Jr. as Kanan, Tiya Sircar as Sabine, Steve Blum as Zeb, and David Oyelowo as Agent Kallus. Jason Isaacs provides the voice of the Inquisitor; James Arnold Taylor reprises his role from Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi, who appears as a holographic recording; and James Earl Jones once again provided the voice of Darth Vader. This episode was originally split into two parts when it was aired and made available on DVD, but was released as one uninterrupted episode when it became available for purchase on digital video storefronts, such as iTunes.

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