Dave Filoni, supervising director of The Clone Wars animated TV show, was part of a Q&A during Star Wars Weekends at Disney World in Florida today. Filoni provided plenty of hints and new pieces of information about Season 5 of The Clone Wars. We’ve collected the information, reported by Tosche Station Radio, below.
- The Onderon arc will tie in with the formation of Rebels and will foreshadow the Rebel Alliance.
- Season 5 will expand on Darth Maul and show all his mechanations as a Sith. We’ll learn more about Maul’s resurrection and Mother Talzin in future episodes. As far as why Maul was brought back? “George told me to”, says Filoni.
- Dave says that there are more tough times ahead for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Considering he got beat up pretty often and ruthlessly in the second half of Season 4, fans may have expected a break for the Jedi Master. But with Darth Maul alive, Obi-Wan is probably in for an awful ride. On Obi-Wan’s relationship with Duchess Satine, Filoni remarked that “Sorrow can be so sweet sometimes.”
- Asajj Ventress with pair up with someone more interesting than Obi-Wan in the show.
- Fives, the ARC trooper and only remaining member of the Domino Squad, will be appear again as a main character.
- An episode of Season 5 might premiere at Star Wars Celebration VI in August.
Thanks to Tosche Station for providing excellent coverage of the event for those who couldn’t attend!
[UPDATE]
A new clip from Season 5 was shown during the event, and it has now appeared online courtesy of Youtube. The clip shows the bounty hunter Embo engaging Anakin, Padme, and Rush Clovis in snowy chase.
Via: TheForce.net
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WTH Dave FIoni!!!!!! The formation of the rebel alliance has been DONE IN THE EU ALREADY!!!!!!! Has he even played the Force Unleashed or read the Han Solo Trilogy?? This is just another blatant attempt to destroy the eu. Enough is enough. First you screw with the mandlorians, then the prophecy of the chosen one, and the unimaginable return of Darth Maul from the dead. I have been against this series since day one and it keeps getting worse and worse. Davey needs to read the books because he knows nothing!!!!!!
… Man, people like Travis only remind me how much I love this show. Mostly because it’s got the chutzpah to troll the hardcore canon adherent fanboys. Not all of us like the EU (I sure as heck don’t consider The Farce Unleashed to be “canon”, or at least, apart of _my_ head canon for SW), but I do appreciate that the show has made some efforts to make certain EU only characters/elements a little more accessible (Quinlan Vos, mostly) to people like me who could give a womp rat’s patooie about the EU.
Otherwise, I’m glad that TCW shakes things up like it does. I, for one, hope Filioni and co. keep doing what they’re doing, regardless of how many strict canon adherents kvetch about ‘But so-and-so died in this book that practically no one has ever heard of!’.
I’m a true fan of Star Wars, you’re a fan of watching TV.
Travis, the Clone Wars is the best thing to happen to Star Wars for a while now. I don’t think you understand the concept of Canon. Let me explain: The books and video games (e.g Han Solo Trilogy, The Force Unleashed) are EU. They are at a lesser level of Canon then Clone Wars, because George Lucas is directly involved in the Clone Wars. This means that if George,Dave, or anyone else involved in the Clone Wars decides to make the formation of the Rebel Alliance happen in an episode, that is what happens- not the Force Unleashed version. This is because- obviously- the creator of the franchise has slightly more pull than an EU author. I’m not disrespecting EU, I’m a big fan myself, but you must realise that George/Dave have the final say on the Star Wars canon, and rightly so. You say in your post that you have “been against this series since day one” and in the words of Yoda: “That is why you fail”. If you don’t approach something with an open mind, you won’t be able to appreciate what an awesome show we have on our hands. Also, bear in mind we haven’t seen the Onderon arc yet. It may fit in perfectly with the EU. Lots of Clone Wars stuff has. And if it does blow the EU story out of the water, hopefully you will be able to look past that, and appreciate the fantastic show we have. Finally, Dave obviously does appreciate the books, as he alludes to them many times. For example, Darth Maul’s new legs are obviously based on the ones he has in the non-canonical Tatooine comic book story.
The Clone Wars is not finished yet, so there is a lot of time for them to tell the story and bring things back together; all the while expanding our knowledge and understanding of places, people, races and the rest of the galaxy far, far, away.
PS. I find that judging some thing in the middle is like peeing in the wind, futile. I will reserve judgement of Clone Wars till it’s complete as a series. Right now I am just enjoying the ride and excited to see where it takes me.
I really am split, I love love love the eu, especially the zahn stuff (mostly era’s untouched by the clone wars) but I completely love clone wars! These guys are right Dave and the clone wars have much more pull to set In “stone” what Lucas wants, I appreciate TFU trying to tell the story of the forming of the rebel alliance, but I believe they are saving the real meat if this story for the end of the clonewars // the beginning of the live action series (I know I know fingers crossed it will happen, while the other hand crosses that it won’t) they may have jumped the gun alittle on releasing so much in TFU and are now correcting it in that hands on Lucas approved tv. Just a vision I’ve seen, but mindful one must be when predicting the future
You guys must be pro Blu-ray buyers. Then I hope when in the future George pulls a, “lets change the series”, act like he did multiple times with his own movies that you take a look back and say… why? Because that’s what I’m doing now and in the future you will Know exactly how I feel about all this, while I’ll be sitting and saying, “more changes? Not surprised since he destroyed the eu.” .
Travis, I hate to say it but I don’t really think you can call yourself a Star Wars fan if you’re just going to bag on the franchise like this. George is an artist, if he wants to change stuff, that’s his decision. If you don’t like it, go and read some EU and leave us all alone.
I will read Eu, thank you. That’s what this site is all about! I don’t know why your on it if you don’t support it.
Why don’t you go back to the crappy newly designed official site where no one can make comments!
Travis, If you’ll read through my posts to you you’ll see that I never said I didn’t support the EU. Quite the opposite in fact- I will always buy the new books on the day they are released, and I’ve been collecting EU for 4 years now. Yes Travis, it is an EU site, but we are discussing the Clone Wars. You see the big header at the top of the page? That says ‘New Clone Wars Season 5 Info’. I’m just fed up of hearing ignorant hate from people like you. I’ll take a wild guess and say you’re probably not a huge fan of the prequels either. You’ve obviously given up on giving me a proper argument/discussion, as you’ve resorted to obscenities and not given me anything to counter. If you can think of anything to say to defend yourself, please be my guest. Otherwise, stop hating on Star Wars.
I don’t hate the ORIGINAL Star Wars, the way it is meant to be.
Good for you. I’m bored of this now, you’ve stopped giving me any argument whatsoever. Have a nice life.
I will , thank you!
My message to EU fans: you guys aren’t more ”SW fans” than te ones who don’t love the EU. Remember that the EU is there only to explain what George Lucas didn’t, and if at any time he wants to decide something about SW, he can. Theorically, since George Lucas works with the Clone Wars and not the EU, a real SW fan would support the Clone Wars when they conflict. Also, it is not because they will go about the creation of the rebellion that they will break the EU; the rebellion can have more than one origins that ultimately connect to form the Rebellion. Lookingat the mandalorian books that were contradicted, you shouldn’t forget that it is not because the CW tell something different that they contradict; there can be more than on thing happening at one on a planet. Look at earth.
Anyway, this article was interesting, but sadly, I knew all this stuff.
^^What that guy said :)
well before George did star wars there was a guy that draw pics of a movie that he wanted to do and well they look a lot like star wars. So maybe he didn’t have a lot to do with thinking it up. I’m a big star wars fan and Lucas does have things to do with the EU like who lives and dies.
i love to watch star wars the clone wars its awsome