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Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Disney+ Animated Series Takes Flight in 2021

Published Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:59:20 -0500

by Ray Flook

Last updated Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:01:08 -0500

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Out of the ashes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes… The Bad Batch. On Monday, Disney+ announced that it has given a series greenlight for Star Wars: The Bad Batch, with the original series set to premiere in 2021. For Agnes Chu, senior vice president, Content, Disney+, the news is just the next chapter in the streamer's commitment to an animated SW universe: "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. 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."

Star Wars: The Bad Batch 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.

Dave Filoni (The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), 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) are set to executive produce. Carrie Beck (The Mandalorian, Star Wars Rebels) will co-executive produce with Josh Rimes (Star Wars Resistance) producing. Rau is also serving as supervising director, with Corbett as head writer.