Star Wars: The Bad Batch trailer arrives ahead of May the Fourth launch

This week’s one-two Disney+ information punch revolves round Star Wars—a PB-and-choc combo of TV sequence that has to date paid off richly, particularly after the shaky conclusion to the franchise’s newest movie trilogy.

First up is the latest Star Wars sequence to debut, coming in just over a month. We learned last month that new sequence Star Wars: The Bad Batch is slated to launch on Tuesday, May 4 (huh, we surprise why they picked that date). On Tuesday, Disney adopted that information with the premiere of that CGI-animation sequence’ first trailer, which instantly follows in the footsteps of Clone Wars‘ revival on Disney+ just a little over a 12 months in the past. The new sequence additionally sees longtime Clone Wars steward Dave Filoni return as co-executive producer.

Tailed by Tarkin

Clone Wars‘ seventh season opened by focusing squarely on the Bad Batch, a ragtag group of clone troopers (also referred to as Clone Force 99) whose mutations turned them into supersoldiers above the relaxation of the clone fray. Their mixture of action-filled missions and comic-relief banter set a strong tone for a season that barreled towards epic set items long-teased by Filoni, notably the Siege of Mandalore.

Tuesday’s new trailer sees the quintet—Hunter, Echo, Tech, Ricker, and Crosshair—instantly fall underneath the watchful eye of Wilhuff Tarkin (the Vader underling who would finally order the Death Star to fireside upon Alderaan). He notices the unit’s knack for disobedience whereas doing his droid-killing bidding earlier than finally ordering his military to “wipe out” Clone Force 99.

Exactly why and when that order comes down is unclear, although this sequence takes place squarely in the franchise’s Imperial period—and so far seems to be full of laughs, blasters, explosions, sweeping dogfights, large lizards, and throwing knives, all rendered in the identical plastic-toy aesthetic favored by Clone Wars. This trailer contains the welcome return of Mandalorian sniper Fennec Shand, voiced as soon as once more by actor Ming-Na Wen, together with an unnamed baby who, in response to StarWars.com, meets our heroes on the planet Kamino earlier than getting tied up of their escape plans. Between these and the return of Clone Wars character Saw Gerrera, it is arduous to think about Bad Batch not roping in additional cameos over the course of its first season.

Unsurprisingly, Disney is sticking with its once-a-week trickle for brand new episodes as soon as the sequence launches, and after its “particular” 70-minute premiere on Tuesday, May 4, new episodes will comply with each Friday (seemingly with shorter lengths from that time on).

Star Wars has been… Owen us a reunion

One day earlier, the official Star Wars blog confirmed just a few issues we already knew (and lots of we did not) about its upcoming Disney+ sequence Obi-Wan Kenobi. Production and filming are shifting ahead beginning in April, and its most evident stars, Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, have now been flanked by a substantial forged.

Perhaps highest on the supporting listing is Joel Edgerton, a minimum of in phrases of sequence lore, since he’ll seemingly reprise his Attack of the Clones function as Owen Lars—higher identified in the authentic trilogy as Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen. The relaxation of the introduced forged is not instantly related to Star Wars movies or TV sequence so far, although actor and comic Kumail Nanjiani involves this sequence in tidy, corporate-synergy trend after ending manufacturing on upcoming Marvel Studios movie The Eternals.

This forged will land in the Star Wars universe 10 years after the occasions of 2005’s Revenge of the Sith, although that timeline announcement does not make clear the place Kenobi and mates will land or how he and an ever-more-evil Anakin Skywalker might cross paths. (My private vote is that they fight some of that “speaking whereas miles aside” method, first seen in The Last Jedi.)

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