A new series of "Star Wars: The Bad Batch" is coming to Disney Plus. The streaming service has ordered the animated show Star Wars: The Bad Batch, a spin-off of the recently concluded The Clone Wars.

The Bad Batch follows the Bad Batch, an elite and experimental clone first introduced in The Clone Wars. Genetically distinct from their brothers in the clone army, the unique unit is trying to find their way in a galaxy rapidly changing in the aftermath of the Clone Wars.

Each member of the Bad Batch is a highly effective soldier and formidable crew with special skills, such as enhanced vision and enhanced physical strength. In the post-Clone Wars era, they are challenged to take on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to survive and find a new purpose. In short, Star Wars: The Bad Batch is a story between The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels.

Dave Filoni, executive producer of The Mandalorian, is one of the Bad Batch EPs. Filoni plays an important role in Star Wars storytelling. Brad Lau ("Star Wars Rebels") is the show's supervising director and Jennifer Corbett ("Star Wars Resistance") is the head writer.

"It is an honor for Disney+ to bring the final chapter of Star Wars: The Clone Wars to new and existing fans alike, and we are overjoyed at the global response to this groundbreaking series," Disney+ Senior Vice President of Content Agnes Chu said. The Clone Wars is now complete, but our partnership with the groundbreaking storytellers and artists at Lucasfilm Animation has only just begun. We are excited to bring Dave Filoni's vision to life through The Bad Batch's next adventure.

The Bad Batch is Disney Plus' latest Star Wars television project. Season 2 of The Mandalorian is scheduled for release this fall. In addition, a Cassian Andor spinoff of Rogue One and an Obi-Wan Kenobi show are in the works. There is also a female-centric Star Wars series in development by Lesley Headland, co-creator of Russian Doll.

Here's everything we know about "Star Wars: Bad Batch":

Surprisingly, "Star Wars: Bad Batch" will appear on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.

The second episode will premiere on Friday, May 7, and subsequent episodes will be available on Fridays. The number of episodes is unknown; IMDb lists only three.

Hunter, Echo, Tech, Wrecker, and Crosshair make new friends in the trailer for Bad Batch. Along the way, they meet bounty hunter Fennec Shand and battle several beasts, showing themselves to be "nothing but trouble."

The Bad Batch sizzle reel trailer premiered at the Disney 2020 Investors Day event and is action-packed.

As seen here, the group fights alongside Fennec Shand (yes, your eyes are not deceiving you) and seems to still be working with the Republic - at least at first. By the end of the clip, Batch and Fennec are fighting Imperial stormtroopers.

Three cast members were announced:

Dee Bradley Baker, who voices all the clone troopers, will appear in many of the clones. Ming-Na Wen will reprise her role as Fenech Shand, and Stephen Stanton will play Admiral Tarkin.

The show is set between "The Clone Wars" and "Rebels," so actors from either series may appear.

This includes Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, Freddie Prinze Jr. as Kanan Jarras, and Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera. Possibly.

On April 15, we got the first cast poster for The Bad Batch, showing Emperor Palpatine's spirit looming large over the "batch."

The Bad Batch focuses on Clone Force 99, which was introduced at the beginning of Clone Wars season 7. Each of the elite clones has genetically enhanced skills.

"The bad batch itself, [George Lucas] got it all right," Filoni told Entertainment Weekly. "He wanted to explore the idea of there being clones that were a little more unique from each other, like special forces with enhanced skills. So the trick with those characters is to make their abilities feel special. The Wrecker should not be the Hulk. Even if we love the Hulk and those kinds of stories. That's not what Star Wars is about. So we had to keep everything within the reality of Star Wars."

A team of elite fighters with unique and special skills. Lucasfilm seems to have taken a page from its sibling company, Marvel.