Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (project)
After the "Unleashed" franchise was discontinued following Disney's decision to refresh the "Star Wars" canon in favor of producing a sequel trilogy, Sam Witwer, Marek's voice actor, revealed that Dave Filoni, the creator of the "Star Wars Rebels" animated series, considered bringing Marek back into the new canon and having him appear in that series, but ultimately decided against it because he could not find a way to do so without compromising either the new canon's quality or the character's unique distinctions.
List of Star Wars Rebels characters
He was originally introduced in Timothy Zahn's 1990s Thrawn trilogy of novels, and reintroduced into the rebooted timeline with the announcement of his involvement in the third season of "Rebels", as well as a new stand-alone novel titled "Thrawn" that was released in 2017. Filoni stated: “You couldn’t have grown up a "Star Wars" fan without encountering Thrawn in "Heir to the Empire". It was a dark time when there weren’t any more movies, and it blew our minds that there could be more" when illustrating how important the character was for the expanded universe and the impact of bringing the character back into canon.