Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Cast: Rosario Dawson, David Tennant, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ray Stevenson, Ivanna Sakhno, Diana Lee Inosanto, Eman Esfandi, Hayden Christensen, Nican Robinson, Evan Whitten, Lars Mikkelsen, Genevieve O’Reilly, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jeryl Prescott, Claudia Black, Jane Edwina Seymour, Wes Chatham, Nelson Lee, Paul Darnell, Maurice J. Irvin, Clancy Brown, Anthony Daniels.
The Mandalorian and Andor proved it, and Dave Filoni’s Ahsoka has doubled down with force on the insistence, but Star Wars as an entity no longer requires the presence of Luke Skywalker, General Leia Organa, or even Han Solo in starring roles to carry the much loved and admired franchise forward.