Listeners to todays episode of Making Tracks will have heard our roundtable chat with writer / producer Jennifer Corbett, and she caught up with Kristin Baver recently to discuss her time in the Star Wars galaxy and how to bring the story of Clone Force 99 to the small screen.
The interesting challenge was: How do you challenge a super soldier?” series head writer and executive producer Jennifer Corbett tells StarWars.com. “And what can you throw at them that’s something that they’re not equipped to deal with? That’s how the idea of Omega came to be. Soldiers can figure things out, but what they’ve never had to deal with is a young kid. And that completely changes how they relate to one another and changes their perspective on the galaxy….You drop them into a Separatist battlefront and they’re going to be fine no matter what. But having to be guardians and be responsible for the upbringing and rearing of a child is something totally different.”
Now, instead of deadly skirmishes, the elite clone troopers have had to figure out how to meet basic needs to survive in a galaxy that is becoming more regimented by the day. And we quickly learned that the Empire wasn’t their only problem, with bounty hunters on their tail and the ticking timebomb inhibitor chips in their heads just to name a few.
Once you’ve read this piece, listen to Jennifer, producer Brad Rau and Fennec Shand herself Ming-Na Wen on today’s Making Tracks.
