CLONE WARS reveals Grievous

Alien General's existence finally acknowledged by STAR WARS.com

By Patrick Sauriol     February 20, 2004
Source: Official STAR WARS website

The official STAR WARS website has finally decided to acknowledge what online fans have known about for a while: the identity of a new EPISODE III villain named General Grievous. The military leader of Count Dooku's Separtist forces, Grievous is a fearsome, half-alien, half-cyborg opponent that will see major combat during the first act of EPISODE III, including a lightsaber fight with one of the trilogy's principal characters. Producer Rick McCallum calls Grievous "a master strategist and the greatest hand-to-hand Jedi killer the galaxy has ever known."

Viewers of the new CLONE WARS micro-series will be the first people to be shown the might of Grievous' battle skills. The character will make its first appearance in Chapter 20 of CLONE WARS, scheduled for broadcast on April 8. The website describes the CLONE WARS finale as involving a group of Jedi Knights being picked off one-by-one by a "indestructible new enemy." Sounds like Grievous!

The final ten new episodes of CLONE WARS begins on Friday, March 26. Each episode will be available from the official STAR WARS website's Hyperspace content section, available to subscribers. As a bonus to Hyperspace members, viewers will also be able to download and watch each CLONE WARS episode with an optional commentary track by series creator Gennedy Tartakovsky.


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