Lucasfilm Casts D.C. Douglas in Star Wars Zero Company, and We Have to Talk About It
On July 23, 2026, StarWars.com revealed the voice cast of Star Wars Zero Company, the upcoming turn-based tactics game from Bit Reactor, Lucasfilm Games, and EA. Buried in that list, between actors with normal amounts of ambition, sits D.C. Douglas as M-3VO, a droid the game affectionately calls “Meevo.” We found out when everyone else did. He probably knew for a year. (NDAs allow a man to smirk at breakfast for twelve consecutive months, which should be illegal.)
The game launches August 27, 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. That is soon.
What Star Wars Zero Company Actually Is
Bit Reactor, a studio founded by Firaxis veterans who built the XCOM and Civilization franchises, has made the first proper turn-based tactics game in the Star Wars catalog. Players command Hawks, a former Republic officer who assembles a squad of hired professionals, including a Clone Trooper, a Mandalorian, a Jedi Padawan, and assorted droids, to hunt down Kundri Fathom, leader of a Separatist-aligned cult called the Infinite Coil. The whole thing unfolds in the shadows of the Clone Wars, which is the correct place for shadows.
Customization runs deep. Hawks and recruited Operators can be built from eight species, with adjustable voices, outfits, combat specializations, and talents that develop over time. Squadmates unlock combat synergies the longer they fight together. (Somewhere, a spreadsheet enthusiast just felt a disturbance in the Force and does not know why.)
DC Douglas is the droid flying the ship and giving the countdown
Production Personnel and Actors Involved
The Cast
The player character Hawks comes in two vocal flavors: Jonathan Freeman of Goliath provides the masculine voice, and Erica Luttrell of Star Wars: Squadrons and Steven Universe provides the feminine one. Rekha Sharma of Star Trek: Discovery plays the villain Kundri Fathom. Dee Bradley Baker returns as a clone, this one named Trick, because after voicing every clone in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch, one more is a rounding error. Matt Lanter reprises Anakin Skywalker. The roster continues with Vic Michaelis of Dropout as Runa Blask, JB Blanc of Arcane as Kabb Uppercut, Judy Alice Lee of Marvel Rivals as Jae Mordant, Alex McKenna of Red Dead Redemption 2 as Cly Kullervo, Leo Howard as Bennic Halloren, Dylan Kenin as Visser, Nicole Rainteau as Tel-Rea, Jim Pirri of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 as Neesh Renark, Hunter Smith of Monster Hunter Wilds as Typhon, and, regrettably for our workload, D.C. Douglas as M-3VO.
The Developers
Bit Reactor leads development in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, with EA publishing and Respawn Entertainment involved in the production. Narrative and Cinematic Director Aaron Contreras and Lucasfilm Creative Executive Kelsey Sharpe will appear alongside cast members Baker, Freeman, Sharma, and Michaelis at a San Diego Comic-Con panel on Saturday, July 25, at 4:00 PM PT in Room 6BCF, hosted by IGN’s Michael Peyton. Douglas will presumably watch from home in a robe.
Douglas and Star Wars: A Pattern Emerges
Star Wars Zero Company marks his fourth Star Wars game. He started with additional voices in Star Wars: The Old Republic in 2011, the MMORPG where half the voice acting industry quietly earned a mortgage payment. In 2016 he voiced 2Med2, a prickly medic droid, in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Then came 2023 and Rayvis, the Gen’dai warrior of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, a role prominent enough that StarWars.com listed it beside his name in this week’s announcement. Now he plays a second droid. Combined with Legion from Mass Effect, the man has cornered the market on synthetic beings with feelings. (His cat remains unimpressed, which is the only quality control we trust.)
Industry Impact and Fan Significance
For tactics fans, this is the crossover event: the people who made XCOM handling blasters, droids, and permadeath-adjacent tension inside the most bankable science fiction property alive. For Star Wars fans, the Clone Wars era gets its most systems-driven treatment yet, with a story wedged into the timeline alongside beloved animated canon. Anakin Skywalker himself shows up, voiced by the actor an entire generation considers definitive.
For fans of Douglas specifically, and our analytics insist you exist, this puts his voice inside a marquee 2026 release with a named character, official StarWars.com billing, and inevitable convention questions for the next decade. Wesker gave him villainy. Legion gave him pathos. Meevo gives him a Lucasfilm droid, which in the collectibles economy means someone will eventually make a figure of a character he voiced, and he will buy three.
Credits: Star Wars Zero Company
Developer: Bit Reactor
Publisher: Electronic Arts, with Lucasfilm Games
Genre: Single-player turn-based tactics
Release Date: August 27, 2026
Platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC
Editions: Standard at $49.99 on PC and $59.99 on consoles; Deluxe at $59.99 on PC and $69.99 on consoles
Hawks (Masculine): Jonathan Freeman
Hawks (Feminine): Erica Luttrell
Kundri Fathom: Rekha Sharma
Trick: Dee Bradley Baker
Anakin Skywalker: Matt Lanter
Runa Blask: Vic Michaelis
Kabb Uppercut: JB Blanc
Jae Mordant: Judy Alice Lee
Cly Kullervo: Alex McKenna
Bennic Halloren: Leo Howard
Visser: Dylan Kenin
Tel-Rea: Nicole Rainteau
Neesh Renark: Jim Pirri
M-3VO / Meevo: D.C. Douglas
Typhon: Hunter Smith
Pre-orders are live now, and all of them include the Crystalline Astromech Cosmetic Pack, so even the droids get merchandise before we finish this sentence. August 27 approaches. Somewhere in Los Angeles a man rehearses sounding surprised about a role he recorded ages ago, and honestly, after four Star Wars games, nine Weskers, and one very smug cat, he has the range for it.
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