Star Wars Rebels Season Two

"If Season One represents A New Hope, Season Two is very much inspired by Empire Strikes Back."

- Dave Filoni

Star Wars Rebels Season Two is the second season of the animated television series Star Wars Rebels. The season premiered with a one-hour television movie on June 20, 2015, with regular episodes which began airing on October 14, 2015.

Production
The production on the second season of the animated television series Star Wars Rebels was officially confirmed on October 2, 2014, one day before the series premiere movie, Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion. Season One executive producers and series creators Dave Filoni and Simon Kinberg will continue their creative roles in the series, while executive producer Greg Weisman will leave the series after the completion of the first season. Series supervising writer Henry Gilroy will take his place as co-executive producer. Freddie Prinze Jr., who voices Kanan Jarrus on the show, revealed that the cast had recorded "nearly twice as many episodes" as the first season.

Release
On December 11, 2014, it was announced that the premiere episode of season two will debut at Celebration Anaheim from April 16-19 2015. The premiere will be followed by an encore screening of season one's two-part finale; as well as a panel featuring Filoni, Prinze Jr., Vanessa Marshall (Hera Syndulla), Tiya Sircar (Sabine Wren), Steve Blum (Garazeb Orrelios), and Taylor Gray (Ezra Bridger). StarWars.com also hinted that the panel would feature a preview of the rest of the second season. After the panel at Celebration Anaheim, it was confirmed that the season would premiere with a one-hour movie in the summer, with episodes airing on Disney XD in the fall. On April 30, 2015, the exact premiere date of the season was revealed to be June 20, 2015, with the airing of the movie Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal. On August 28, 2015, it was announced that the episodic premiere would be on October 14, 2015. By the end of October 2015, major development of the season had been completed, with only minor tweaking still in place.