The cast of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is to be joined by our very own Simon Pegg, who’s annexing fantasy universes one geek role at a time…
Simon Pegg hasn’t exactly kept his fan fury about the modern additions to the Star Wars franchise quiet; he devoted not a small chunk of his memoir, Nerd Do Well, to the topic, as well as making The Phantom Menace-related rage a plot point in cult sitcom Spaced. One latter-day development that must pass muster though is Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as Pegg has signed up to voice the character of bounty hunter Dengar in the animated series.
Knowing his fanbase well enough to realise the news required qualification (and perhaps shielding himself from potential cries of hypocrisy), Pegg explained on Twitter, “Being Dengar doesn’t change the way I feel about the prequels but then the prequels couldn’t change the way I feel about the original three.” That, for any neologism fans out there, was a twoosh, otherwise known as a tweet of exactly 140 characters.
Pegg appears as Dengar in this Friday’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Bounty. Read Cameron’s reviews of season 4, here.
