'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Gets, Deserves a Third Trailer

It's too early to know exactly what the box office fate of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be. I can say from our perspective that we seem to get a lot of traffic here at The Big Picture whenever the subject is brought up, but whether or not that translates into anything beyond fanboys at the theaters remains to be seen. I can't even speak to the number of opening weekend theaters for the new animated film (based on episodes of the series premiering in several places this fall), so gauging its performance is a little tough. Will it make $75 million? $100 million? $200 million? I honestly have no idea. Since we know it's opening wide, we should assume better than 2,500 theaters, so I don't think a $125-150 million haul is out of the question. There's a new trailer for Clone Wars you need to check out - man, it's like Trailer Central here this week - and yet again, this looks so much better than the entire second Star Wars trilogy, perhaps because George Lucas didn't make it. It takes place between the events of the Episode II and Episode III, which is interesting for a couple of reasons: 1) Why didn't Lucas choose to cover it in the traditional series instead of going pansy and covering so much of the goddamned love story? 2) Since we know what happens, it's curious that they're going back now to tell the story. Of course, they've gone back before; there was already an animated Clone Wars about five years ago, which in Earth chronology actually did come between Episodes II and III. For the first time since I was disappointed by Episode I, I'm excited about Star Wars again. That's a good feeling. The Clone Wars flies into theaters on August 15th.

Comments

[Will]

I'm stoked for this movie. Hope Lucas doesn't let me down...

Again.

[Orinn]

Clone war cartoons were amazing, 5 minutes episodes of pure starwars crack. They were greatly inspired by samurai jack cartoons and many of the same team members have carried from that to this, which will be good, possibly great, but without fail better then the prequels without blinking an eye.