Longtime Star Wars: The Clone Wars producer Dave Filoni has teased a sense of conclusion for the show’s upcoming final season.
This history of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series is a bit of a rocky one. The whole series started out as a poorly reviewed theatrical animated film that served as the starting point for the animated show. Even then it is generally agreed upon that The Clone Wars series wasn’t very good until the later seasons. But in it’s time it was well-received by fans and considered to be one of the better things to take place in the prequel era of the Star Wars Universe. Unfortunately, the show was one of the casualties of the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm and was canceled after it’s 5th season and despite a brief resurrection on Netflix for a 6th season, the show never concluded in the way that producers like Dave Filoni intended. But now this will soon change.
In April of 2019, it was officially announced that a 7th and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars would be released on Disney+. While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Dave Filoni, a longtime producer of The Clone Wars series, spoke at length about the return of the series. Since Star Wars: The Clone Wars ended, Dave Filoni has made a name for himself as one of the creative drives behind the various Star Wars television shows, serving as a co-creator on series like Star Wars: Rebels and Star Wars: Resistance and serving as an executive producer on The Mandalorian. But when it came to The Clone Wars Dave Filoni knew he had to give the series a sense of a conclusion:
“I tried to do things that honored what we had been doing on this series when I was working with George [Lucas]. At the same time, I knew this had to have a sense of completion.”
Later on Dave Filoni talked about the conclusion of Ahsoka Tano’s own story arc:
“It’s really the backbone [of the Star Wars saga]. It’s that personal journey. [We saw that] with Luke Skywalker, and we’ve seen Rey going on this journey. But for me now with Ahsoka, she’s been the student Jedi the whole time, and she’s finally being challenged by what she will do with her knowledge and her training and her abilities when faced with the ultimate test — which is what you’ll see at the end of Clone Wars here.”
He then went on to tease additional information regarding Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and how the storyline eventually gets there:
“We always knew that it ends with the third film. There’s no escaping that. It’s this inevitability. We know what happens [but] you don’t know precisely how it happens.”
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Here is the official synopsis for Dave Filoni’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars follows the Republic’s clone army in their struggle against Count Dooku’s Separatist forces, and features fan-favorite characters like Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, and Darth Maul.
Created by George Lucas, with Dave Filoni as executive producer/supervising director, Star Wars: The Clone Wars stars Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, Dee Bradley Baker as Captain Rex and the clone troopers, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan, and Sam Witwer as Maul.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars will premiere exclusively on Disney Plus on February 21, 2020.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
