With ‘The Bad Batch’ Over, Dee Bradley Baker Says Lucasfilm Should Tell More Animated Clone Stories
With the conclusion of The Bad Batch, the future of Star Wars animation seems to be at a crossroads.
Beginning with The Clone Wars in 2008, Star Wars fans have enjoyed sixteen years of animated Star Wars stories that have been fleshed out in the time period between Attack of the Clones and A New Hope. For many, the animated series, which include Star Wars Rebels and The Bad Batch in addition to The Clone Wars, have told their favorite Star Wars stories.
![Clones, Echo](https://mickeyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/clone-wars-rewatch-301-1-1024x434-1.jpg)
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Echo joins a group of clones who encounter their brother, “99.” Image: StarWars.com
Now that The Bad Batch has wrapped up, it is unclear what Lucasfilm’s next move will be. Aside from the recently released Tales of the Empire series, there is no other animated series on the docket.
While many fans have speculated that an Asajj Ventress series could be in the future, one Star Wars star has another idea.
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![Ventress Bad Batch](https://mickeyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Ventress-bad-Batch.jpg)
Photo: Lucasfilm
Dee Bradley Baker Has an Idea For More Clone Stories
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Dee Bradley Baker, who has voiced all of the clone troopers in the Star Wars animated projects, believes that there are still more clone stories to tell.
While The Bad Batch ended with Wrecker, Hunter, and Crosshair enjoying a much-deserved retirement, the story of other clones, including Echo, Emerie, and Cody, remains more open-ended.
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![Echo](https://mickeyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/echo-main_fd65adde.jpeg)
Photo: Star Wars
“Well, it’s tantalizing, isn’t it? Because a number of the clones are still in play, including Echo, and his is a really remarkable story. He’s had a uniquely challenging story to overcome with how he’s been put through the wringer when he was captured and then kind of reassembled as part machine. And yet he comes out of this with this attitude of, ‘Let’s get back in there and let’s make things better.’ And people really love that,” Bradley Baker explained.
“So I’m encouraged that these threads are still open for storytelling. Like what happens to [clone Commander] Cody? Where does Echo go? How do [clones] Rex and Wolffe and Gregor end up getting together and then eventually end up in a fishing spaceship on a [remote planet] at some point? How do these things happen? Everybody wants to know because they love these clones.”
Is Another Animated Series on the Way?
While the fate of many of the remaining prominent clones, including Rexy, Wolffe, and Gregor, was revealed in Star Wars Rebels, Bradley Baker’s point is well taken.
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![Gregor Rex Wolfe](https://mickeyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-10-28-45-How-do-Gregor-Rex-and-Wolffe-meet-up-r_StarWars.png)
Photo: Reddit
Perhaps Lucasfilm will follow his advice and create a series that follows the adventures of Captain Rex and his Clone Underground. In any case, hopefully, we will hear about a new Star Wars animated series soon.
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