Watch your step, this brand-new episode of Frontlines: The Clone Wars Podcast can be a little rough. Join Mike and Matt this week as they talk more Episode VII news, Mike gives you his thoughts on the status of the EU, and they recap the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode Bound for Rescue. Plus we hear from you guys in the mailbag! All that and much more on this week’s episode of Frontlines: The Clone Wars Podcast!
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While it was previously announced at Celebration VI that “Revenge of the Sith” 3D would release three weeks after “Attack of the Clones” 3D on October 11th, 20th Century Fox has now moved up the release date for “Revenge of the Sith” to October 4th. While it’s not a big jump, it will still be great to see two Star Wars movies in theaters again that are just two weeks apart from each other! Hopefully “Attack of the Clones” will still be playing in some theaters when “Revenge of the Sith” is released, so that way we can have a chance to see both movies back to back on the big screen!
Here’s the preview for the final part of the Young Jedi arc titled “A Necessary Bond.”
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General Grievous Attacks!
In the conclusion to this four-part story arc, General Grievous launches a full-scale attack on the pirate base on Florrum in “A Necessary Bond,” airing this Saturday, November 24th at 9:30am ET/PT on Cartoon Network.
Episode Trivia:
· This episode answers what exactly happened to Hondo Ohnaka’s base, which was seen destroyed in “Revival,” the season opener. Originally, “Revival” was planned to air later in the season, in proper chronological order, but it was moved to the start in order to better showcase the Darth Maul storyline. In “Revival,” Hondo describes his base being overrun by General Grievous.
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The third part of the new StarWars.com George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy video series has been released, and in this installment, George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy discuss how they first met, how George Lucas asked Kathleen Kennedy to take over Lucasfilm, and George’s advice to her on running Lucasfilm!
Here are two very cool new preview clips from this week’s new “Clone Wars” episode titled, “Bound For Rescue.”
You’ve never heard of Frontlines: The Clone Wars Podcast? It’s the podcast that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs. This week Matt’s flying solo on an all-new epiosde of Frontlines: The Clone Wars Podcast, as he recaps the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode, talks about the recently revealed Episode VII writer and more! Plus we hear from you guys in our mailbag. All that and more on this week’s Frontlines: The Clone Wars Podcast!
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After hearing rumors the last few days about Michael Arndt being the writer for Episode VII, StarWars.com has now confirmed that he will in fact be writing the screenplay for Episode VII! Here’s part of the announcement from StarWars.com:
[blockquote cite=]”As pre-production of Star Wars: Episode VII begins, Lucasfilm has confirmed that award-winning writer Michael Arndt will write the screenplay for the new Star Wars film. Kathleen Kennedy and George Lucas have begun story conferences with Arndt. Arndt won an Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay for writing Little Miss Sunshine (2006), and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing Toy Story 3 (2010).”[/blockquote]
This is some great news, as the thought of a new Star Wars movie moving further into production is definitely exciting, and Michael Arndt looks to be a great choice! You can check out the full announcement over at
StarWars.com has an exclusive first look at a very cool scene from the upcoming Darth Maul/Death Watch arc, which is introduced by none other than the voice of Darth Maul himself, Sam Witwer!
You can check out the awesome clip in the link below, though you just have to be a registered member of StarWars.com to see the clip.
Here is the 2nd installment of the new video series on StarWars.com where George Lucas discusses the future of Star Wars! In this video, George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy discuss more on George’s involvement with the new trilogy, and what they’re looking for in a writer.
Multiple sources like Vulture.com, Deadline.com and The Hollywood Reporter, are reporting that Michael Arndt (The writer for Toy Story 3) has written a treatment for not only Episode VII, but for Episodes VIII & IX as well, and is likely to be one of the writers Disney/Lucasfilm will use for the films. Also mentioned in the article, is that the treatment may be seen by some big name directors like Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg, and J.J. Abrams. Here are some quotes from the article:
[blockquote cite=]”Informed sources tell Vulture that Star Wars: Episode VII has found a leading candidate to write the film’s screenplay: Michael Arndt, the Pixar favorite who was nominated for an Oscar for Toy Story 3, won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, and wrote The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which is currently shooting. Insiders confirm that Arndt has written a 40- to 50-page treatment for the film and is likely to be at least one of the writers when the Disney/Lucasfilm project begins shooting in 2014.”
“We’re told that Arndt’s 40-something page treatment will soon be crossing the desks of top directors, including Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg (the former producing partner of Lucasfilm co-chair Kathleen Kennedy), and J.J. Abrams. Whether they’d be interested is unknown, but Disney wants to make sure they’ve at least tried the biggest names.”[/blockquote]
Some very interesting and exciting news indeed if this ends up being true. You can check out the full article of this story over at