The Bad Batch will tackle an as-yet unexplored piece of Clone Wars history in the Disney Star Wars canon. When the series picks up, the Galactic Empire is just emerging out of the fall of the Jedi Order. During this chaotic time, the Bad Batch -- comprised of clone troopers Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, Crosshair and Echo -- must find their way in a world that seems to have no place for them, which is what made the era particularly exciting to showrunner Jennifer Corbett.
"This time period is one of the reasons I got so excited about this show, other than this oddball group of characters," Corbett shared. "But I just found it intriguing and engaging to watch a series where -- we've seen The Clone Wars, where it's the height of the Clone Troopers doing what they're meant to do, and what they were created for."
"The question became, 'What happens after the war is over? What happens to clones who all they know is being soldiers?' Especially for the Bad Batch, who do things differently as it is, with the Republic and how they fit in once it becomes the Empire," she explained. "Obviously, [they are] two very different regimes, and how they react to this new environment and the new way of doing things and new way of following rules, which again, isn't their favorite thing to do."
"It was interesting to just talk about the transition from the Republic to the Empire and what that looks like, because it's not what we saw in the original trilogy, where it's the dominance of the Empire," she continued. "It's kind of the early stages, and I found it interesting to show planets and places that were happy that the war is over, and they don't really understand the implications of what an Empire actually means. It's just laying the groundwork for what everyone knows the Empire to be later on."
"It's an interesting point you make there, Jen, that in the sudden, shocking transition from Republic to Empire, that it becomes a suddenly much more rule-based power structure of the galaxy, of the universe, and that the Bad Batch are not so much a rule-based unit," agreed Dee Bradley Baker, who voices all of the clone characters. "They're very much a team, but they're not like the Clones are, where it's more of a top-down command structure. It's very interesting to place them in the middle of this transformational moment and to see how that plays out."
In Star Wars: The Bad Batch, the exceptional members of Clone Force 99 are back for more stories set in a galaxy far, far away. When they return, however, the universe as they know it has changed. In the wake of Order 66, the Jedi have fallen and the Galactic Empire has risen -- and militarily officials like Admiral Tarkin aren't sure there's a place in it for people like Hunter, Tech, Wrecker, Crosshair and Echo. As such, they may be in for a nasty surprise when they stumble into the new galactic order.
Created by Dave Filoni, Star Wars: The Bad Batch stars Dee Bradley Baker and Ming-Na Wen. The series premieres May 4 on Disney+.
0 Comments