While The Clone Wars wasn’t able to deliver its full Cad Bane vision due to the series being cancelled before his next story arc could be delivered, the character is now back in play thanks to Disney+’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
I can speak to the design of it, we definitely looked at the designs that were created for that arc, which were a little different than the classic old-school Cad Bane.
Before Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Cad Bane’s last canon on-screen appearance was in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 4 episode “Crisis on Naboo,” which concluded a story arc involving Bane and a small group of other bounty hunters being hired to kidnap Chancellor Palpatine on Naboo.
Granted, Disney+ later brought back Star Wars: The Clone Wars for a seventh and final season, but since it consisted of just 12 episodes, only a few of those planned story arcs could be fully realized.
As Brad Rau noted, design and camera framing aspects of Cad Bane’s scrapped Clone Wars arc were incorporated into Star Wars: The Bad Batch, but it remains to be seen is any narrative elements from that arc will also be incorporated into Bane’s time on Disney+’s newest Star Wars series.
New episodes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch premiere Fridays on Disney+, so make sure you’re subscribed to the Mouse House’s streaming service.
Connoisseur of Marvel, DC, Star Wars, John Wick, MonsterVerse and Doctor Who lore.