Star Wars: The Bad Batch

[Vegas]

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’: New Animated Series To Debut On Disney+ In 2021



Disney+ has ordered the next Lucasfilm animated series, Star Wars: The Bad Batch with a premiere set for 2021.

Clone Wars architect and The Mandalorian EP and director Dave Filoni will return for Bad Batch as EP, alongside Athena Portillo (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels), Brad Rau (Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars Resistance) and Jennifer Corbett (Star Wars Resistance, NCIS) with Carrie Beck (The Mandalorian, Star Wars Rebels) as co-executive producer and Josh Rimes as producer (Star Wars Resistance). Rau is also serving as supervising director with Corbett as head writer.


The series follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in The Clone Wars) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch – a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army — each possess a singular exceptional skill which makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew. In the post-Clone War era, they will take on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to stay afloat and find new purpose.

“Giving new and existing fans the final chapter of ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ has been our honor at Disney+, and we are overjoyed by the global response to this landmark series,” said Agnes Chu, senior vice president, Content, Disney+. “While the Clone Wars may have come to its conclusion, our partnership with the groundbreaking storytellers and artists at Lucasfilm Animation is only beginning. We are thrilled to bring Dave Filoni’s vision to life through the next adventures of the Bad Batch.”

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[Vegas]

Ironically this new The Bad Batch series gets announced today which is 1 day before I start watching tomorrow Season 7 Episode 1 of The Clone Wars where The Bad Batch make their debut.

[TTX]

You know for something that a lot of people frowned upon originally, that's the third show set basically either during the Clone Wars or right after.

[WTIC]

Not to start a SW VS ST debate, but I didn't know where else to toss this.

Don't forget what's coming on August 6:



Looks fun!

Todd C
WTIC

[Vegas]

I saw this article today about the upcoming The Bad Batch:

The Bad Batch will explore an area of Star Wars "that has not been often visited"

New Star Wars Disney Plus series The Bad Batch could be trying something new in a galaxy far, far away, according to Darth Maul voice actor Sam Witwer.

“I will tell you it looks really, really good. It looks absolutely beautiful,” Witwer said of the series during a stream on his Twitch channel (via Heroic Hollywood).

It’s the brief tease about the plot and where we’re heading, though, that could get the midi-chlorians racing: “The story… at least I know where the story begins in the first several episodes and I am very pleased because it’s a little area of Star Wars that has not been often visited.”

Whether that’s new planets, new locations, or even major new characters remains to be seen, but those perhaps jaded by the Skywalker Saga and all Ahsoka’d out by The Clone Wars ending earlier this year have every right to be excited by that.

Announced in mid-July, The Bad Batch will follow the adventures of a special unit populated by Clone Commandos introduced in The Clone Wars’ final season. The series falls intriguingly on the Star Wars timeline, with post-Order 66 lore often relegated to non-canon adventures or rarely explored in much depth.

Here, The Bad Batch can aim to do for Lucasfilm’s animation what The Mandalorian did for live-action: inject a dose of the unknown into proceedings, with an eye on teasing out new corners of the universe.

We’ll only know for certain once it releases on Disney Plus next year but with that, Mando, The High Republic, and a slate of new Star Wars movies just over the horizon, the future has arguably never been brighter for the franchise.

[Vegas]

May 4th (Star Wars Day) is the release date for this series.

[WTIC]

Feb 24, 2021 18:58:51 GMT -5 Vegas said:

May 4th (Star Wars Day) is the release date for this series.

Cool!

Thanks for the reminder of Star Wars Day, I may have one or two celebs from the movies ready for then (I don't think I've done up Mark Hamill's card yet, or Billy Dee Williams...)!

Speaking of Mark Hamill, there's a professor at the local community college where I go that has the same first and last name! I haven't met him, but I can just imagine he's more than a little tired of all the Star Wars jokes he has to endure, haha!

Todd C
WTIC

[Vegas]

I just got back from watching the newest episode of The Bad Batch at the gym. I won't spoil who it is, but somebody from The Mandalorian makes an appearance on this week's episode.

[Vegas]

Tonight I watched the final episode of this series which did not quite end as I expected.

Overall I enjoyed this series and I was glad to read the announcement that there will be a Season 2.

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Strong series, looking forward to season 2.