EPISODE II: RETURNING HOME...

The notorious bounty hunter Jango Fett returns to his unique home facility with the clones of Kamino, his ongoing, highly paid services to them, and to the mysterious Darth Tyranus, having now endured for over ten years. His legacy work dedicated to evil and power will soon shatter a galaxy during the events of Episode II.

More terrific concept work by the ever-talented Doug Chiang.

'ATTACK' AT 20: WET WEATHER WARFARE!

An unseen action moment from the 'Rumble in the Rain' fight between Obi-Wan Kenobi (here played by stuntman Nash Edgerton) and Jango Fett on Kamino.

Instructed by the Jedi Council to bring Jango Fett to Coruscant for further questioning about the mystery of the Clone Army on Kamino, Obi-Wan's efforts to acquire the Bounty Hunter prove difficult as the pair face off in a watery conflict, and a test of physical skillsets begins. Ultimately. Fett and his son escape in their vehicle Slave 1, but not before Obi-Wan has attached a homing device to its hull.

The chase continues...

Scenes from the film and unused action moves filmed on the Fox Australia Studios in 2000.

Preparing for combat at FOX Studios, Australia in 2000.

Australian stuntman Scott McLean would play Jango Fett in many action scenes for the film. 

Ewan McGregor has fun with the Jango Fett stunt double.

“Comparing Bounty Hunters with Jedi is like comparing a tiger with a shark.” 

 Nick Gillard - Dreamwatch Magazine - June 2002 issue

“That (the fight between Obi-Wan and Jango) was fantastic, because Boba Fett is so legendary - the look, the helmet - and there I was fighting Jango Fett, his father, which is full on. It was brilliant. When I ran down something, I wasn’t running down a blue plank, there was more of a set there-and the spaceship was parked up and stuff. But then there’s still an awful lot left to the imagination.” 

 Ewan McGregor - Empire magazine - June 2002 issue

The two Obi's! Ewan McGregor and his comrade Nash Edgerton. 

'ATTACK' AT 20: INTRIGUE AND MYSTERY ON KAMINO!

With help from an old friend on Coruscant, Obi-Wan Kenobi is firmly on the trail of the assassins after Padme Amidala. Newly arrived on the mysterious and archives-hidden water world of Kamino, he meets the local ruler Lama Su and is shocked to discover that the alien cloners had ten years earlier been paid by the Republic to create an immense army for their needs - an order that was never instigated. Further shocks come with the reveal that a now deceased Jedi, Sifo-Dyas, was a key initiate for the order!

As Obi-Wan sees the impressive army in all its various of stages and training, he is then taken to meet the man whose body pattern was uniquely chosen as their clone primer: a seasoned bounty hunter named Jango Fett...

“Natalie and Hayden got to go to Italy and Tunisia. I got to be the only one in bluescreen and being poured on by rain for most of the time.” 

Ewan McGregor - Empire magazine - June 2002

“I just did lots of blue screen stuff in the pissing rain. I wonder if George has got it in for me somehow.” 

Ewan McGregor - Premiere magazine - June 2002

Undoubtedly, the Kamino-based sequence of the film was one of Attack of the Clones highlights, whose mystery, epic scope and storytelling legacy would greatly, and successfully, influence the future of the saga in the realms of Star Wars television, from The Clone Wars animated series to The Bad Batch, and even aspects of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.

Drenched in rain, Obi-Wan arrives drenched at Tipocca City.

Obi-Wan is met by the friendly Taun We (voiced by Rena Owen).

Close-up image of Taun We and the superb digital detailing.

“Studying these slow and graceful movements (of Audrey Hepburn in the movie My Fair Lady) gave me a starting point for how to give the Kaminoans their smooth and graceful way of regally gliding from one place to the other.” 

CGI animator Kevin Martel on the development of the Kaminoans - Star Wars Insider Issue 66 - 2003

Discovering news of 'the army' of clones being created by the Kaminoans.

From birth to training, the inspection of the army begins.

The young Clones learn everything needed for warfare.

The adult clones gather in the mess area.

The 'magnificent' clone army revealed.

A concerned Obi-Wan surveys the army. The image of McGregor was flipped in post production for unknown reasons in the final film.

As McGregor originally filmed the scene at the FOX Studios, Australia in 2000.

Some behind the scenes imagery linked to the Kamino plotline...

Production painting of Tipocca City by Doug Chiang, a city firmly built from materials that can long-term withstand the corrosive weathers affecting it.

Tipocca city design by Ed Natividad.

Another great piece of establishing conceptual art.

“George (Lucas) wanted the first half of the movie to look ‘blue’ and the second half to look ‘red’. Coruscant (at night) and Kamino were the blue planets, Tatooine was a neutral warm, and Geonosis was always going to be red.” 

Artist Ryan Church on the 'look' of Episode II - Star Wars Insider Issue 96 - 2003

Adam Savage and the ILM model shop delivers more highly detailed, stunning work.

Preparing to film the model interior of Lama Su's meeting area at ILM. 

A very Close Encounters-ish design rendering for the Kaminoans by Doug Chiang.

Dermot Power's concept work.

AN 'EMPIRE' AT 40: THE OTHER FLYERS OF BESPIN!

Originally, it wasn't just the Twin Pod Cloud Cars that enjoyed the colourful skies of Bespin. There were also to have been pilot-ridden Air Whales too, as seen in these early thumbnail sketches by Ralph McQuarrie. Though abandoned for Empire (and later for Jedi, as another form of flying transport), the creatures would finally make it to the screen in adapted form, used by the spindly alien Kaminoans in atmospheric establishing shots during EPISODE II.

The flying whale beasts of Kamino, as seen in EPISODE II.

CLASSIC IMAGE: AN (UN)EXPECTED ARRIVAL?

EPISODE II's planet of mystery, indeed. But Kamino has even further disturbing revelations for Obi-Wan to discover, once he touches down in the rain-swept Tipocca City and meets his charming host, Lama Su.

CLASSIC IMAGE: WARRIORS ON DEMAND...

With leisurely and confident guiding from Kaminoan leader Lama Su and the friendly Taun We, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues his tour of Tipocca City's immense cloning facility, seeing first hand the hatcheries where babies will growth-accelerate to eventually become fearsome Clone Troopers, in this memorable effects shot from EPISODE II.

CLASSIC IMAGE: CLOSE QUARTERS COMBAT!

Under instructions to bring the mysterious bounty hunter Jango Fett back to Coruscant for vital questioning by the Jedi Council, Obi-Wan Kenobi quickly finds out that his flying jet-pack using opponent isn't going willingly, in this classic image of outdoor conflict from EPISODE II.

CLASSIC IMAGE: "DAD! LOOK!"

At an outdoor docking ring on the rain-lashed world of Kamino, precocious and clearly potentially dangerous son to bounty hunter Jango Fett, Boba, warns his father of the arrival of Obi-Wan Kenobi, in a scene of soon conflict from EPISODE II.

CLASSIC IMAGE: HEAD TO HEAD!

As the violent lightning storms intensify around the water world of Kamino, so too does the physical battle between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett, the latter delivering an unexpected headbutt at the Jedi, during this action scene from EPISODE II.

THE CLONE WARS: THE HIDDEN ENEMY

On Kamino, Master Shaak Ti confers with alien leader Lama Su on the emerging problem linked to Clone Trooper Tup's unexpected, murderous slaying of a Jedi Knight. Is this a one-off occurence, or a systematic start in the breakdown of the psychological welfare of the Clone Trooper battalions- a situation that could threaten the lives of their war comrades? A scene from THE CLONE WARS: THE LOST MISSIONS episode Conspiracy.

UK fans will finally be able to see this last batch of episodes on SKY from sometime later in the year.

CLASSIC IMAGE: A WET DAY FOR WARFARE!

Obi-Wan Kenobi hangs on for dear life to the thinest of cables, under one of the buildingscapes of the vast, water soaked city of Kamino, intent on being reunited with his capture assignment: the bounty hunter Jango Fett, in this memorable moment from ATTACK OF THE CLONES.

BEHIND THE SCENES: RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING...

Ewan McGregor endures another soggy day against green screen at the FOX STUDIOS, Australia, during 2000's filming of ATTACK OF THE CLONES, for a key scene on Kamino talking to Master's Yoda and Mace Windu. Still, at least he's got Third Assistant Director Gordon Westman to keep him company, and hold the umbrella!

CLASSIC IMAGE: FLYING KILLER!

Unwilling to be taken in for questioning by Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, lethal bounty hunter and Clone Trooper "blueprint" Jango Fett takes to the rainy skies of Kamino to begin a lethal airborne blaster attack on his prey, in this memorable scene from EPISODE II.

CLASSIC IMAGE: WHO's THERE?

On Kamino, the unwelcome presence of a Jedi Knight outside their apartment makes the young unaltered clone "son" of Jango Fett- Boba- suspicious, in this scene of simmering drama from EPISODE II.

THE BRAVEST OF JOURNEY'S CONCLUDES. 'THE CLONE WARS: THE LOST MISSIONS' ARRIVE ON US NETFLIX

A whole host of intergalactic goodies await lucky US viewers, as they finally get to see the completed episodes of THE CLONE WARS Season Six- or The Lost Missions, as its now been called, from this month.

▶ Star Wars: The Clone Wars -- The Lost Missions: Trailer - YouTube
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Lost Missions Now on Netflix | StarWars.com

Featuring the much-anticipated vocal return of Liam Neeson as the ethereal Force ghost of Qui-Gon Jinn, an ice planet-set story arc involving Season Two's previously seen senator Rush Clovis, a deadly trip undertaken by Yoda into the heart of the Sith genesis, a look back to the mysteriously elusive Jedi Sifo-Dyas, and, most importantly, a grim foreshadowing of the events of ORDER 66- and even the murky swamp vistas of Dagobah thrown in for good measure, there's something for everyone in this surely stunning conclusion to five previous years of epic and thoroughly absorbing storytelling. Thank you and goodbye to our Prequel era heroes and villains, and a big thank you to Dave Filoni and his team for such a stunning job in bringing STAR WARS to new heights of animated brilliance.

I've said it before, but STAR WARS: REBELS has a helluva lot to live up to after this....

Mystery and danger ahead for Shaak Ti.

THEIR FINAL BOW. 'STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS' FAVOURITES RETURN FOR 'THE LOST MISSIONS'

TheForce.net: In New Interviews, Dave Filoni Discusses The Clone Wars Bonus Content

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’: Dave Filoni on Ahsoka’s fate, Master Yoda | Hero Complex – movies, comics, pop culture – Los Angeles Times

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Episodes, Videos and Games | StarWars.com

'Clone Wars' director Q&A: Final episodes answer big 'Star Wars' questions | Inside TV | EW.com

Samples of composer Kevin Kilner's work for the series: MUSIC • KEVIN KINER

The Top 10 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episodes - IGN

BEHIND THE SCENES: BLAME IT ON THE RAIN!

A permanently soaked Ewan McGregor films his action scenes of Obi-Wan against Jango Fett (here likely played by stunt double Scott McLean) on a huge green screen set yet to become Slave One and the surrounding Kamino environment, at FOX STUDIOS, Australia in 2000, for this intriguing behind the scenes angle from EPISODE II.

CLASSIC IMAGE: BRED FOR WAR!

The next generation of Jango Fett's clone "brood", capable of accelerated growth, continue their combat training within the Kamino water world city of Tipocca, in this intriguing scene from EPISODE II.

CLASSIC IMAGE: SOLDIERS WITH A PURPOSE...

The first battalions of Clone Troopers created for Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas over ten years previously assemble on a Kamino platform staging area, in this classic image and sequence from EPISODE II, foreshadowing the horrors of the First Galactic Empire to come by the end of EPISODE III. It's a scene of ominous dread accompanied by John Williams always superb and memorable music.

CLASSIC IMAGE: WAVE RIDER!

A Kaminoan whale rider enjoys the incredible weather around both him and the city of Tipocca, in this atmospheric image from EPISODE II.