According to Entertainment Weekly, Simon Pegg has been tapped to voice Dengar in this week’s episode of The Clone Wars.
“Dengar is one of the elite,” Pegg tells EW. “If you’re on Darth Vader’s bounty hunter speed dial, you are the best in the galaxy.”
It’s a little shocking to me, given his disdain for the prequels that he would agree to bring a classic era character into the prequel era, but stranger things have happened.
From his twitter feed:
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.
— Simon Pegg (@simonpegg) February 29, 2012
They also have a lengthy clip of Dengar in action on Friday’s episode.