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Friday, January 10, 2014

New Picture from Star Wars: Rebels. Dave Filoni Makes a Clarification on Clone Wars Finale.

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Entertainment Weekly have released a new image from Star Wars: Rebels featuring the Inquisitor and two Stormtroopers. Also hit the jump to read about Dave Filoni's thoughts and clarification on the Clone Wars finale...



From Entertainment Weekly:
Here is a new image from Disney XD’s upcoming animated series Star Wars Rebels, a prequel/sequel set between Episode III and IV, an origin story of the Rebel Alliance.Front and center is the show’s toothy new bad guy, the Inquisitor. He’s been tasked by the Emperor with hunting down the remaining Jedi Knights. Star Wars Rebels is scheduled to premiere this fall as a one-hour special telecast on Disney Channel, it will be followed by a series on Disney XD channels around the globe.


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Here's what Dave Filoni posted on his Facebook page regarding the recent Clone Wars - Dark Horse news:

Happy New Year!
You may have seen the recent Clone Wars / Dark Horse Comics news, and I thought I would chime in and clarify things a bit. I am very excited about our collaboration with Dark Horse and this opportunity to tell an unfinished story developed for the TV series.
Before we get into the details about the Maul comic, I’d like to make clear that this storyline does not represent The Clone Wars series finale. I’ve seen some confusion about that online and want to set the record straight. There are additional Clone Wars episodes on the way and one arc in particular marks the series finale in my mind. We’ll have fun discussing that in the not too distant future.
Allow me to reveal in more detail what the story “Darth Maul, Son of Dathomir” is, and where it came from. As I have mentioned in previous interviews, for us to create the rich and incredibly complex stories that we were telling during The Clone Wars, we would be working on around fifty episodes at one time. This is from rough outline form, all the way through final sound design and picture lock. There were several stories that had gone through a substantial amount of development when the series was ended. We realized that this meant certain character arcs would go unfinished, but the Story and Publishing teams at Lucasfilm approached me with a unique way to continue Maul’s story for everyone who had been faithful to the show. The idea was to tell the story in comic book form, and knowing the great work that Dark Horse had done over the years, I thought it was an excellent plan.
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 The story of Darth Maul had become an important one for the series and it was only fitting that we chose him for a comic adaptation. The comics will be based on four finished scripts that were written for Season 6 . These scripts came out of one of our story conferences with George Lucas. As they moved through the production pipeline, they became finalized scripts with a great deal of the actual design work completed. The designs you will see, the plot lines, and character development in these comic books are all coming directly from the TV production. I turned over all of the art to Dark Horse so they could create an accurate representation of what we were planning for the show.
I am thrilled with the result, and thankful that we could partner with Randy Stradley and his team on this project. As I have always said, the stories told during the Clone Wars era will live on, and we are eager to share Darth Maul’s storyline with you. Is it the final story for Darth Maul? You will have to read the comics to find out.

10 comments:

  1. Will we get to see Darth Maul eat a Double Bacon Cheeseburger?

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  2. I'm just hoping that The Inquisitor's first name doesn't turn out to be "The".

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  3. How come they can't get the look of the storm trooper helmet right? surely it isn't that hard, I'm sure they could scan a prop. oh well doesn't mean the show will be bad

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    1. The helmets are the first stormtrooper helmets. They may be slightly different than the movie versions, owing to the fact that they are early prototypes.

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    2. Which is true, by the way, because in an interview they talked about just that; the armor of the stormtroopers in this show are prototypes/earlier versions

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    3. The answer is : so they can sell more toys.

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    4. It looks like they've, in a way, mixed the classic stormtrooper helmet with the Ralph McQuarrie concept drawing for stormtroopers. Aside from it looking just as cartoony as the Clone Wars (which, I believe, should never be the look of anything Star Wars) I'm not necessarily disliking their design.

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  4. Oh I see. Too close to appear prototype at first glance just looks a little off. The Ralph Macquarie helmet would have been cool as his designs partly inspired the show I heard. http://www.starwarshelmets.com/mcquarrie-concept-stormtrooper-armor-helmet.htm

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