Without getting into spoilers for the novel, someone bombs Cato Neimodia, but neither the Separatists nor the Republic takes credit. Throughout the book, a complex scheme on Cato Neimodia fuels the vast majority of the plot. doesn’t count.” But in Chen’s new novel, it very much does! In Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan jokingly tells Anakin, “that business on Cato Neimodia doesn’t.

Lucasfilm “That business on Cato Neimoidia” That business on Cato Neimoidia totally counts. So something has to happen that bridges that and feels really organic.” It’s an undefined period of time between those two people. “And then in The Clone Wars movie, they’re already like buddy-buddy. “In Attack of the Clones, you see flashes of Anakin and Obi-Wan working together, but you also see a lot of bickering,” Chen says. Still, with Brotherhood, we get to see a moment in partnership between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi that we’ve oddly never seen before. “From a pure plot outline perspective, I’d always wished Attack of the Clones was Episode I and we would get a proper Clone Wars movie to bridge that and Revenge of the Sith.”Ĭhen is quick to point out that he loves both versions of The Clone Wars animated series, and that also Lucas had to show the “key moment in Anakin’s life” when he’s separated from his mother, Shmi Skywalker. “The book is very much a bridge,” Mike Chen tells Inverse. And for Mike Chen, the whole purpose of this book is to create a kind of Clone Wars “movie” that he wished had existed during the run of prequels.

In other words, this is a story about Anakin and Obi-Wan before Ahsoka but after the war breaks out. Lucasfilm Redefining Anakin and Obi-Wan’s bromanceĬhen’s new book takes place in an interesting spot in the Star Wars canon: the moment after the Battle of Geonosis in Attack of the Clones, but before the events of the 2008 Clone Wars film which launched the famous series. Obi-Wan and Anakin come a long way between this moment and The Clone Wars.

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