- "Bad Batch is more of an evolution of Clone Wars than Rebels was. Rebels was kind of a reboot and a different way of thinking about things. Bad Batch comes directly from Clone Wars. They're the weird clones, they're misfit clones with special skills and special crazy personalities. So, the score definitely grows from Clone Wars, just like Clone Wars grew from or changed throughout its run."
- ―Composer Kevin Kiner
The "Bad Batch Theme"[2] was co-composed by Deana and Sean Kiner[1] and performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra for the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars's seventh season. Initially released on February 21, 2020,[2] the theme is played throughout that season[3] and in Star Wars: The Bad Batch to represent Clone Force 99. It is also played during the end credits of the episodes of The Bad Batch, where it is followed by Omega's theme.[5] Dave Filoni told Deana, Sean, and Kevin Kiner that Clone Force 99 were a group of misfits like those in The Dirty Dozen (1967), and so the composers watched the war films The Dirty Dozen, The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Kelly's Heroes (1970), and listened to their soundtracks. The composers then took the element of misfits from those films and incorporated it into the theme for The Bad Batch.[1] The first bar of the Bad Batch Theme resembles the main theme of The Guns of Navarone, scored by composer Dimitri Tiomkin.[6]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Kevin Kiner Talks The Bad Batch Score, Influences on the New Show, His Time Working with Dave Filoni and George Lucas, and More by William, George and Reilly, Josh on www.swholocron.blog (May 3, 2020) (archived from the original on May 4, 2021)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
Bad Batch Theme (From "Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Final Season") on the Kevin Kiner - Topic YouTube channel (backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Bad Batch" ·
- ↑ Interview: Star Wars: The Bad Batch Composer Kevin Kiner by Ames, Jeff on www.comingsoon.net (archived from the original on May 7, 2021)
- ↑
Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Aftermath" ·