While George Lucas' Star Wars prequels proved successful at the box office, many fans complained that episodes One through Three were too light on action and too heavy on expositional dialogue and political wrangling. Director Dave Filoni promises this won't be the case with Star Wars: The Clone Wars, his animated addition to the fabled sci-fi saga.
"The Clone Wars movie, at the end of the day, has a lot of action," Filoni explained to me today at Comic-Con. "The action sequences kind of tie it all together and the story moves through the big battle scenes. It's very fast-paced. I know the live-action (Star Wars) movies are pretty fast-paced, but the prequels were kind of longer feeling than the old-style movies. There's more of a serialized feeling in A New Hope or Empire Strikes Back...the Clone Wars are a little bit more in that classic sensibility where the story moves quickly, it's faster-paced and the characters kind of develop on the go."
"The movie will surprise (fans) because many, many things blow up," he joked. "We kind of start off in that grand tradition of Star Wars...and then we move on from there and broaden into a whole bunch of different tales."