Lucasfilm hosted for employees and Clone Wars alumni a special screening of The Clone Wars and a discussion with George Lucas and Dave Filoni afterward. Clone Wars alumni James Arnold Taylor, Ashley Eckstein, and Catherine Taber also attended.
Pics and details are here.
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Funko announced its shared exclusive Pop figure with Hot Topic and NYCC: Captain Rex! Look for this bad boy to drop (if you’re not going to the con or don’t want to wait in line) soon!
Also at Fan X last weekend was this wedding, between an Obi-Wan and a Satine cosplayer, and officiated by TCW alumni James Arnold Taylor and Anna Graves. How awesome is that?
Video by Andrew Gallup
This IGN interview seems to strongly indicate we’re not only getting long-plotted episodes like the Siege of Mandalore arc, but completely new stuff:
And then obviously with Clone Wars I’m very in the weeds on that and will have to be, because I myself have had to go back and watch a whole bunch of stuff that I had done, and I went back and watched Revenge of the Sith and Attack of the Clones in depth again. I’m like, “I have to upload this whole timeline.” Just the intricacy of how the clones got made and where Dooku was and all of those things were stuff that I was just doing from memory at the time, because I was in it. Then I switched time periods and went on and did Star Wars Rebels, so to go back into Clone Wars, I have to remember, “Wait – where was everybody? How did that work?” And I had charts and figured all this stuff out, but I’ve uploaded the chip now, so I’m good.
Hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since TCW landed in our lives. This site has always been very supportive of the show and has tracked its progress ever since it came into existence. I’ll never forget meeting Dave Filoni and Henry Gilroy at SDCC 2008 and how excited they were that this project they’d been working on for years was finally going to be revealed.
Here’s my review of The Clone Wars film release. Let it not be said I didn’t see the show’s genius from the get-go!
10 years later at SDCC I was there to hear and witness the impossible: The Clone Wars returning in 2019. I can’t tell you how freakin’ happy I was at that incredible moment! So happy birthday, Clone Wars and the great things you brought to the Star Wars galaxy…and dare I say, here’s to many more!
Dave Filoni told Cinema Blend that developments on “Rebels” will affect The Clone Wars when it returns next year:
It’s interesting, because Clone Wars affects Rebels and that’s progressive, but now I have to look at it in reverse and I have to look at all the things I did with Ahsoka and Rex and say ‘Well, now I know these things happen so how does that affect what they were like now that I’m back in Clone Wars?’ So I have to do this other time of engineering which I didn’t have to do before because Ahsoka in Clone Wars is always forward-moving, and so is Rex. Their futures were undetermined, but now you know something about them, so that’s different. That’s new for new Clone Wars, so we’ll see. Hopefully I can figure it all out.
Apparently the cast didn’t know until just a few months ago!
The Clone Wars trailer has now scored over 5 million views on the official Star Wars You Tube channel alone!
And The Clone Wars was the most tweeted about t.v. show during SDCC, surpassing the likes of The Walking Dead and Doctor Who!
And that’s just on the official Star Wars (You Tube) Channel. That doesn’t count other channels posting the same trailer; there’s one I saw with 425K views.
BTW, here’s a video of the SDCC panel room’s reaction to the trailer:
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