In a recent panel at San Diego Comic Con, Dave Filoni gave some insight into the early days of The Clone Wars and some outlines of the original ideas for the show.
Speaking about the show, revived for Disney’s streaming service, he said:
“That was something that when I was working early on with Henry Gilroy, we were trying to figure out what the character makeup of the show was going to be and how we could produce a TV series based in the time of the Clone Wars because the Clone Wars is so vast and would require literally thousands of clones battling thousands of battle droids, and so we were shooting around more of an original trilogy idea of a crew, two Jedi that worked with these smugglers and black market. And we were coming up with a character makeup. Frankly, that character makeup is very similar to what we ended up with in Rebels. It just goes to show you that those ideas don’t really die.”
With new episodes adding to the stories from this era of the saga, it’s interesting to hear how tonally different the show could have been.