Dave Filoni and Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Premiere Announced for Star Wars Celebration

The season premiere for Star Wars Rebels will once again debut at a Star Wars Celebration, for the second year in a row. This time, the first two episodes of season three will debut at Celebration Europe in London this coming July.

Showrunner Dave Filoni will bring the episodes to the convention for a screening, and bring special guests to "share highly guarded sneak peeks at what's to come in Star Wars Rebels season three," the official announcement reads. The much-anticipated third season will follow the galaxy-shattering events of the season two finale. In that hour-long episode, Darth Vader caught up to the Rebels crew, including Ahsoka Tano, his former apprentice, and revealed his true (or rather, former) identity to her. We also saw Darth Maul blind Kanan Jarrus, Ezra Bridger tempted to the dark side of the Force, and the major fight between Ahsoka and Vader that left young Tano's fate once again up in the air.

While season three isn't likely to pick up on Ahsoka's story right away, we will probably get some clue as to how Kanan is adjusting to blindness, and how Ezra's ability to, at the very least, think like a Sith and commune with the dark side is affecting the mission of the crew.

Star Wars Rebels season two debuted with a one-hour premiere event at Star Wars Celebration 2015 in Anaheim. The convention looks to keep up a yearly schedule now under the watchful eyes of Disney and ReedPOP with Star Wars Celebration 2017 already announced (and tickets already on sale) for Orlando, Florida. Other confirmed events for Celebration Europe include a Rogue One panel with director Gareth Edwards, president Kathleen Kennedy, and stars of the film, plus appearances by Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.

Rebels will return to DisneyXD Fall 2016. No televised premiere of Season 3 has yet been announced.