The official Star Wars website announced that the film will lead the way for a television series will debut in the fall of '08. The TV series will air on Cartoon Network, TNT, as well as CTV in Canada.
This film will be the first animated ‘Star Wars’ feature film in theaters.
This will also be the first "Star Wars" film that won't have Frank Oz providing the voice of Yoda. Tom Kane provides the voice.
This is the first ‘Star Wars’ film not to open in the month of May.
When Ahsoka is addressing the clones in the hanger bay a pink droid is standing next to R2-D2. This droid's name is R2-KT and was included as a way to honor the work of the 501st Legion (an international group of Star Wars costumers who perform countless hours of volunteer work for many charities). The droid was created in the memory of Katie Johnson (daughter of the 501st Legion's founder Albin Johnson) who died of cancer at the young age of 7. Some of the costumer's built a pink R2 (dubbed R2-KT) for Katie to provide her comfort in the last days of her life. This was to reflect the scene in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) when R2-D2 watches over Padme while she slept at night.
This is the first ‘Star Wars’ movie not to open number one at the box office opening weekend.
This was the first Star Wars film to not have an introductory text-scroll during the title sequence. Instead the premise of the story is set up by an announcer's voice-over describing background scenes.
First Star Wars movie since Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) to feature an in-cockpit view of the jump to Hyperspace. George Lucas purposely did not use this iconic shot in any of the prequels so as not to lessen the impact of seeing it for the first time in Star Wars (1977) (assuming one watches the films in chronological order).
WILHELM SCREAM: Clone Trooper who gets shot by Super Battle Droid at B'Omarr monastery on Teth.
Shipped to some theaters under the name "Joan of Arc".
The DVD release date was set before the film was released theatrically.
Ziro the Hutt is based on Truman Capote.
Corey Burton had already recorded Count Dooku's lines before Christopher Lee joined the voice cast. Lee dubbed in the dialog to the already finished animation.
The ship Anakin takes from the landing platform on Teth is called The Twilight. It is an old Corellian G9 Rigger Freighter. Skywalker continues using the ship during the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (2008) series. Dave Filoni has stated that this finally gives some credit to Uncle Owen's claim that 'Luke's father was a navigator on a spice freighter' from Star Wars (1977).
The white headdress and traveling cloak Padme wears while visiting Ziro the Hutt was originally designed for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) but never used on screen. Several behind the scenes pictures from the production in which Natalie Portman is seen wearing the headgear were released at the time.
Clone Captain Rex has a scar on his chin modeled after Harrison Ford's.
James Arnold Taylor based the voice of the Twilight's Medical Droid on Jeff Goldblum.
In original concept art, Ahsoka Tano was named Ashla, which is the name of the Youngling of the same species (Togruta) seen in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). However, the link between these two characters was soon dropped.
This film will be the first animated ‘Star Wars’ feature film in theaters.
This will also be the first "Star Wars" film that won't have Frank Oz providing the voice of Yoda. Tom Kane provides the voice.
This is the first ‘Star Wars’ film not to open in the month of May.
When Ahsoka is addressing the clones in the hanger bay a pink droid is standing next to R2-D2. This droid's name is R2-KT and was included as a way to honor the work of the 501st Legion (an international group of Star Wars costumers who perform countless hours of volunteer work for many charities). The droid was created in the memory of Katie Johnson (daughter of the 501st Legion's founder Albin Johnson) who died of cancer at the young age of 7. Some of the costumer's built a pink R2 (dubbed R2-KT) for Katie to provide her comfort in the last days of her life. This was to reflect the scene in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) when R2-D2 watches over Padme while she slept at night.
This is the first ‘Star Wars’ movie not to open number one at the box office opening weekend.
This was the first Star Wars film to not have an introductory text-scroll during the title sequence. Instead the premise of the story is set up by an announcer's voice-over describing background scenes.
First Star Wars movie since Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) to feature an in-cockpit view of the jump to Hyperspace. George Lucas purposely did not use this iconic shot in any of the prequels so as not to lessen the impact of seeing it for the first time in Star Wars (1977) (assuming one watches the films in chronological order).
WILHELM SCREAM: Clone Trooper who gets shot by Super Battle Droid at B'Omarr monastery on Teth.
Shipped to some theaters under the name "Joan of Arc".
The DVD release date was set before the film was released theatrically.
Ziro the Hutt is based on Truman Capote.
Corey Burton had already recorded Count Dooku's lines before Christopher Lee joined the voice cast. Lee dubbed in the dialog to the already finished animation.
The ship Anakin takes from the landing platform on Teth is called The Twilight. It is an old Corellian G9 Rigger Freighter. Skywalker continues using the ship during the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (2008) series. Dave Filoni has stated that this finally gives some credit to Uncle Owen's claim that 'Luke's father was a navigator on a spice freighter' from Star Wars (1977).
The white headdress and traveling cloak Padme wears while visiting Ziro the Hutt was originally designed for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) but never used on screen. Several behind the scenes pictures from the production in which Natalie Portman is seen wearing the headgear were released at the time.
Clone Captain Rex has a scar on his chin modeled after Harrison Ford's.
James Arnold Taylor based the voice of the Twilight's Medical Droid on Jeff Goldblum.
In original concept art, Ahsoka Tano was named Ashla, which is the name of the Youngling of the same species (Togruta) seen in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). However, the link between these two characters was soon dropped.
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