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Disney+ has unveiled the trailer and release date for the final season of Lucasfilm Animation series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. The third season of the critically acclaimed animated series – a spin-off from the Emmy-winning series The Clone Wars – finally has a trailer, which sees Clone Force 99 facing a fan-favourite lightsaber-wielding villain.
In the epic final season, the Batch crew will have their limits tested in the fight to reunite with Omega – now a prisoner of the Empire – as she faces challenges of her own inside a remote Imperial science lab. With the group fractured and facing threats from all directions, they will have to seek out unexpected allies, embark on dangerous missions and muster everything they have learned to free themselves from the Empire.
The hit series boasts a talented voice cast, including American Dad’s Dee Bradley Baker, Fear the Walking Dead’s Michelle Ang, Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes, Westworld’s Jimmi Simpson, It’s Pony’s Noshir Dalal and The Upshaw’s Wanda Sykes. It is created and executive-produced by Dave Filoni.
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The Bad Batch season three will premiere with a three-episode drop on Wednesday, February 21, through to the fifteenth and final episode on May 1. It will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+, which Star Wars fans can join for as little as £4.99 a month.
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The mercenaries of Clone Force 99 are back for one final outingThere’s no hidden cost with a monthly Disney+ subscription and it can be cancelled at any time, while customers can get the equivalent of two months free if they sign up for an annual subscription. But savvy shoppers can get Disney+ free for a year when buying the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S24, S24+ or Ultra from Samsung, which also comes with Galaxy Buds2 Pro, a Galaxy SmartTag2 and up to £370 discount if you trade in your old handset.
Alongside a new poster, Disney+ unveiled the official trailer for The Bad Batch’s third season on Monday (January 22). The tense and dramatic footage suggests hard times are ahead for the remaining members of Clone Force 99, who are still dealing with a tragic loss from season two.
As well as showing the return of Emperor Palpatine, the end of the trailer sees the clones face a lightsaber-wielding menace in a surprise appearance from fan-favourite former Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress. Speaking to StarWars.com, The Bad Batch supervising director Brad Rau explained how Ventress will fit into the series having supposedly died in a canon novel.
He said: “We love Asajj Ventress. She’s a character that we’ve been wanting to tell more stories about.
“We don’t want to spoil anything, but want fans to know that any new storytelling with Ventress will align with the events of Star Wars: Dark Disciple.”
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