Following a nearly three-year hiatus, Star Wars has released a poster featuring many of the franchise’s characters to promote the Star Wars Celebration convention’s upcoming return at the end of May. Star Wars Celebration is one of the franchise’s most anticipated events as a convention that brings Star Wars fans from around the world together to celebrate their shared love of the franchise. Celebration treats attendees to meet-and-greets with stars of the franchise, access to exclusive Star Wars merchandise, information about upcoming Star Wars content, and more. The convention moves from location to location around the world and has been confirmed to be taking place in Anaheim, California this year.
As is commonplace for Star Wars Celebration, a poster promoting the event has been released. Since Disney’s acquisition of Star Wars, the Celebration posters have typically featured a variety of characters from the sequel trilogy of films. With Celebration 2022’s poster, however, this is no longer the case. Characters like Rey (Daisy Ridley), Kylo Ren/Ben Solo (Adam Driver), and Finn (John Boyega) are no longer at the franchise’s forefront, as the Celebration 2022 poster reveals.
Revealed via StarWars Celebration, attendees and non-attendees of Star Wars Celebration 2022 can view the new poster highlighting the upcoming convention. Unlike past posters for the event, characters from recent live-action Star Wars media like The Mandalorian and The Book Of Boba Fett are front and center in the new poster. Other important characters from Star Wars, such as Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, and BB-8 are also featured in the Celebration 2022 poster. The reveal of the poster comes alongside a variety of other merchandise that will be exclusive to Celebration 2022, such as t-shirts and hats to celebrate the twenty-year anniversary of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones this year. Check out the full poster below:
With the recent success of The Book Of Boba Fett, it is unsurprising that the Star Wars Celebration 2022 poster highlights characters who were featured prominently in the series. During The Book of Boba Fett’s latter half, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) crossed over from his own show, The Mandalorian, to assist Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison). The Celebration 2022 poster also features Grogu and Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson), who appeared during The Book Of Boba Fett as well. Dawson is confirmed to be reprising her Ahsoka Tano role in the upcoming series, Ahsoka, that’s rumored to be coming in 2023.
Alongside Star Wars Celebration 2022, the highly anticipated series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, is also set to release in May 2022. Obi-Wan Kenobi will feature Ewan McGregor’s return to the iconic Obi-Wan Kenobi role. Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker is also set to appear in Obi-Wan Kenobi played by Hayden Christensen, who played the role during Attack Of The Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith. Even Darth Maul, another of Kenobi’s legendary adversaries from the Star Wars franchise, appears on the Celebration 2022 poster. With a variety of highly anticipated Star Wars shows such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Mandalorian season 3, and Ahsoka on the horizon, Star Wars Celebration 2022 will certainly be an exciting time for the franchise.
Source: StarWars Celebration