Dave Filoni wants to make it clear – the recent seventh and final season of the animated “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” is a definitive end. There’s no more specials, mini-series or spin-offs coming.
The show’s final season led right into the events of “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” and while there have been rumblings of a new animated series for a while, it will very likely be entirely separate and in a very different part of the timeline. Speaking with The Nerdist, Filoni says even though he understands fans wanting more episodes, the narrative has finished:
“We’re really thankful we got to finish it. But I also think creatively, you always want to move forward. I think you could get stuck in a situation where suddenly we’re doing all these stories again, but where is the ending? I don’t want that feeling. I want you to feel like this had a purpose and it rounded out and let’s find something new that’s exciting.
We’ve got to look forward a bit here, but boy that was really satisfying to get to do. I can’t even tell you how grateful we all are that people were there for it to watch and support it. Disney+ supported us greatly to get this done. It was a great effort by everybody that understood what Clone Wars meant to people. It feels good. I’m glad it’s done.”
The series first launched in 2008 on Cartoon Network for five seasons before shifting to Netflix with a sixth season in 2014 and then Disney+ earlier this year with the series finale airing last month.
