'Star Wars' Animated Shorts Focus on the Women
by EG
While many Star Wars fans will be honed in on even the smallest details around The Last Jedi during this year's Star Wars celebration, the franchise has already delivered a big highlight by shining the spotlight of some of its best female characters.
As announced Wednesday night, a new series of animated shorts, Star Wars Forces of Destiny, will celebrate some of Star Wars' biggest heroes. Forces of Destiny will launch in July on Disney's YouTube channel before expanding as a two-part TV special with additional shorts on Disney Channel sometime during the fall.
While the series isn't exclusively about female characters in the franchise, they're front and center in the animated shorts and the line of "adventure figures" — described as a cross between dolls and action figures — that will come from it.
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The next big Star Wars theatrical release will be Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, which will debut in December 2017.