Warner Bros have officially released the trailer for Star Wars: The Clone Wars.  I’m almost 100% sure I saw this leaked a few months ago, when I wasn’t really paying much attention, but regardless, it’s out now and it’s official.

If you’re confused about what Star Wars: The Clone Wars is, then please check out the guide we posted when the official poster was released.

Enjoy!  Some great stylistic aspects coming to show here, such as the designs on Jabba and Count Dooku.  Also pleasing to see stars such as Samuel L. Jackson still providing their voices. 

Despite the greatness of the trailer, I’m tired of the Duel of the Fates music… do they have to play it in everything Star Wars related these days?  I’m hoping the movie and TV show will have a new John Williams score.

Update: Nope, it appears that Kevin Kiner will be doing the original score for the movie. Great. What experience does he have? Well, he composed two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise once… Damn. They could have picked Brian Tyler. And does the name Kevin Kiner remind anyone else of Kevin Kilner, of Earth: Final Conflict fame?

If you’re slightly confused about whats’ going on with Clone Wars, don’t be. You’re not alone.

In an effort to help explain, this poster is for the upcoming theatrical movie.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an upcoming CGI animated film set to be released on August 15, 2008 in theaters in the US. It’s basically a film introduction to the upcoming CGI television series, confusingly of the same name.

As for the TV series, it’s also called Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It’s an CGI cartoon series created by Lucasfilm Animation and Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and set to debut on Cartoon Network in late 2008, and according to George Lucas, there will be “at least 100 episodes”. It is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, during the same time period as the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars series. Hang on – the what?

Star Wars: Clone Wars (notice the lack of ‘the’, that clears everything up!) was ANOTHER CGI cartoon series set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was produced by Cartoon Network, aired in 25 chapters from 2003 to 2005, and is no longer in production.

All good.

So, to summarise, there was a CGI cartoon series called Star Wars: Clone Wars. It ended. Now, a new movie being launched called Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and it’s going to lead into a new CGI cartoon called… Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Someone shoot Lucas’ naming department.