With the second season of The Bad Batch just a few short hours away the questions begin, and one of the inevitables is how closely the show steers towards the live action faire that’s doing so well on Disney Plus. Executive Producers Brad Rau and Jennifer Corbett discuss that synergy, and where The Bad Batch fits in.
JC: “Where we are in the bad batch, it’s a bit early into the era of the Empire that we’re far enough away from Obi-Wan and Andor, but that’s not to say that some of the storylines that we have don’t affect those shows. We really rely on, you know, the Lucasfilm Story Group, who is with us whenever we have story conferences, and they comment on storylines if some are veering into territory that could affect other things that are either in development or are currently being made, we’re made aware of that. But so far, we haven’t been told, ‘No, you can’t do that because of this.’ It’s really more of a collaboration and just making sure that we’re telling the best stories without affecting other things coming up.”
BR: “The Senate, it’s awesome as fans to see what’s going on in there, and speaking of the story group, we talked with them, also, all the way through. In the Senate, we were discussing how we see the Senate pods in Andor, and that had an effect — although it’s not a one-for-one, it’s different — but it did have an effect on how we redesigned those pods slightly. We just try to be consistent and true through all of it. But in the trailer, when you see Palpatine in the Senate, it’s like, give me a break.”
JC: “I think we were excited to just do something that was very political, sort of a noir type vibe because it felt it felt very much like Clone Wars, and even prequel era. We had a lot of fun doing those.”
“Whenever you get a group of creatives in a room, everybody has inspirations from different things, so that really gets the ball rolling as we’re talking about the next batch of episodes, things we’d like to see, things that could be fun and that opens up Omega and the Bad Batch’s eyes to different pockets of the galaxy and what’s going on there and not making the world feel so small because it’s a massive universe. So we get to go to different places, have different vibes. But yes, there are several movie inspirations, but again, I think it makes season two very eclectic and that’s what we were aiming for.”
Stay tuned to Fantha Tracks for our weekly review and to our studio episodes of Making Tracks each week where we’ll be discussing the show, and have a listen to tonights special episode of Making Tracks and the recent Bad Batch season 2 roundtable featuring Brad, Jennifer, Michelle Ang and Dee Bradley Baker.
- Hardcover Book
- Horton, Cole (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 160 Pages - 03/21/2023 (Publication Date) - Insight Editions (Publisher)
