At the start of the 2024 school year, Disney+ will release a new Lego Star Wars film which will dare the unthinkable: introduce the Sith version of Jar Jar Binks.
Nobody dreamed of it, but Disney is going to do it. In a press release published on May 6we learn that the Disney+ platform will broadcast, in September, an animated mini-series entitled Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. At first glance, there is nothing exceptional, simply the feeling of being dealing with yet another adaptation. But, twist: the teaser ends with an image that could leave its mark: a glimpse of Dark Jar Jar.
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Yes, the unbearable character of The Phantom Menace appears with all the paraphernalia of the perfect Sith in Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. On this occasion, Ahmed Best, the actor who played him in the prelogy, and who was entitled to his moment of glory in the series The Mandalorianwill lend him his voice again.
Dark Jar Jar will not be the only bizarre element, since we are also talking about Ewok bounty hunters or even Geonosian Jedi knights. Even a Dark Falcon to go further in the blasphemy. In short, everything is going in all directions.
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However, it is Dark Jar Jar who stands out in this Lego video Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. This, for several reasons.
The first is linked to the character's invasive and clumsy personality. In The Phantom Menace, it is the comic dimension – a little too strong, some would say – to a universe which deals with serious subjects, starting with the establishment of a galactic dictatorship. But his very particular expression made him unsympathetic to part of the public.
The second reason stems from a crazy theory about the supposed true identity of Jar Jar Binks. This one, nourished by elements as disturbing as capillotracted, believes that his behavior would in reality be a decoy to mask his real intentions. So he would be a Sith Lord acting out. “ You had me at Dark Jar Jar “, smiles Mark Hamillinterpreter of Luke Skywalker, after seeing the trailer.
The appearance of Dark Jar Jar is made possible by the storyline of Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy. It revolves around an artifact unearthed in a Jedi temple, capable of reshaping the galaxy. The familiar universe will be offered “ in a twisted version where the good guys are the bad guys, and the bad guys are the good guys. » This is why the creators allow themselves to pay homage to this theory about Jar Jar Binks.
