There’s been a few new Star Wars: The Clone Wars posters released online. We’ve posted one above and the other two are below. Does the character animation bother me? Yes. Am I going to go see this immediately as soon as I am allowed? Absolutely. I think that the background, ship, and battle animation looks spectacular - almost like the actual live-action movies.

In the movie, The Clone Wars are raging between the Separatists and the Galactic Republic. When Jabba the Hutt’s son is taken by a group of renegades, two Jedi are summoned to investigate. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi depart in search of answers: where is the Hutt’s son, and who is controlling this mysterious renegade group? Yoda sends Ahsoka Tano along as Anakin’s apprentice, Obi-Wan duels Asajj Ventress, and Anakin finds himself dueling Count Dooku once more. Meanwhile, the Sith plan to instigate a three-way war, including the Hutts. Remember, this takes place between Episodes II and III.

This movie is meant to be the springboard for the animated TV series, which will air on The Cartoon Network in the fall, but is also meant to be able to stand alone. The series is meant to tell the stories of some of the lesser known characters in the Star Wars universe. Here’s what supervising director David Filoni had to say:

“We’re not just telling Anakin Skywalker’s story. If we were doing that, we would be stuck on one single arc. I look at the episodes where we have him and Ahsoka, which is his student, and I know that there is an arc there, because something has to happen to her. We don’t see her in [Star Wars: Episode III–:] Revenge of the Sith. We can kind of go left or right of that plot and deal with characters that we have never seen. There’s a lot of material, so I can stretch it and, you know, keep making episodes about things that George [Lucas] would like to see or I would like to see.

[Clone Wars] is a very stand-alone movie. It sets up the major characters we know, like Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, and, of course, the new character, Ahsoka. So it’s made to stand alone and introduce everybody to the universe we’re showing in the series.

In that period [the three year period of The Clone Wars], there are so many stories to tell that I’ve been amazed that just in the first season what we didn’t get to, you know, and what I would still like to get to and what stories we would still like to explore. So for me and the longer it goes, the more chance we all get to tell fascinating stories in that galaxy.”

Source: Latino Review