Star Wars: The Bad Batch Is Coming!
The Bad Batch clones were recently granted their own show and a trailer was released in December 2020 (check out our podcast Episode 48: December Disney+ Announcements where we talk about the Bad Batch announcement) but a release date wasn’t revealed.
Well, today we have a date! The series premiere date will be May 4, 2021. Yes you read that right, Lucasfilm/Disney is finally using the already built in Star Wars Day to their advantage by releasing something on Star Wars Day - May the Fourth on Disney+.
StarWars.com announced this earlier today, along with the following synopsis.
“The series follows the elite and experimental troopers of Clone Force 99 (first introduced in Star Wars: 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, as they prefer to be called — 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. ”
My guess is that we will see the continuation of the Clone’s lifespan as troopers in the Galactic Empire and how they evolve into what we now now as Imperial Stormtroopers.
But with the Bad Batch being the individualists and rebels that they are, they will not conform to the Empire and will eventually break away from the Empire to do their own thing and become an “Enemies of the State” type group. (1980’s A-Team anyone?)
However, the story goes the good thing is we get new Star Wars content sooner rather than later and something to hold us over until the Book of Boba Fett due in December 2021.