Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones is an American science fiction movie produced by Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox. This is the fifth movie that George Lucas made in the Star Wars series. It shows the reasons why Anakin Skywalker eventually became Darth Vader.[1]

Star Wars: Episode II -
Attack of the Clones
Official logo
Directed byGeorge Lucas
Written byStory:
George Lucas
Screenplay:
George Lucas
Jonathan Hales
Produced byRick McCallum
George Lucas
(executive)
StarringEwan McGregor
Natalie Portman
Hayden Christensen
Ian McDiarmid
Samuel L. Jackson
Christopher Lee
CinematographyDavid Tattersall
Edited byBen Burtt
Music byJohn Williams
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Lucasfilm
Release date
May 16, 2000 (2000-05-16)
Running time
142 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$120,000,000

Story change

Ten years after the previous movie, Senator Padmé Amidala is nearly killed by an unknown assassin, and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine assigns a young Jedi knight - Anakin Skywalker - to protect her. Anakin and Padmé haven't seen each other for ten years. They travel to Naboo, which is a safe planet. Anakin falls in love with Senator Padmé.

Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi tracks the assassin, Jango Fett, to a planet called Kamino. Obi-Wan discovers that on Kamino, an army of clone soldiers is being made for the Republic, but nobody knows who commissioned them. He also finds out that Jango Fett's DNA is being used to create the clones.

Anakin begins to have dreams of his mother dying so he travels back to Tatooine with Padmé and finds his mother, who has been tortured by alien savages. Anakin's mother dies, causing Anakin to briefly turn to the Dark Side and kill all of the savages, something a Jedi is forbidden from doing.

Jango Fett tries to escape to a remote desert planet called Geonosis but Obi-Wan follows him. Obi-Wan finds out that Jango Fett is working for Count Dooku, a former Jedi. Dooku is the leader of the Separatists, a group of planets who want to leave the Galactic Republic. Obi-Wan also finds out that Nute Gunray, Poggle the Lesser and several other corrupt businessmen are giving their armies to the Separatists so that they can fight the Republic.

Obi-Wan sends a distress signal to Anakin and Padmé and he is captured. Anakin and Padmé arrive on Geonosis but they are also captured by Jango Fett. The three of them are sentenced to death in an arena, watched by thousands of insect-like aliens called Geonosians. Luckily, Mace Windu and hundreds of Jedi arrive to save them. The Separatists reveal their droid army and they surround the Jedi.

Suddenly, Yoda arrives with the clone soldiers and they fight the Separatists. Dooku manages to escape Geonosis. Dooku returns to Coruscant, where he meets Chancellor Palpatine, leader of the Republic. Dooku tells Palpatine that their plan is working, implying to the audience that Dooku and Palpatine were the ones who asked the Kaminoans for the clone army so that they could start a war. Anakin and Padmé get married secretly while the Republic and the Jedi prepare their clone troopers prepare to go to war with the Separatists.

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Country Premiere
  United Arab Emirates 16 May 2002
  Netherlands Antilles 16 May 2002
  Austria 16 May 2002
  Australia 16 May 2002
  Aruba 16 May 2002
  Canada 16 May 2002
   Switzerland 16 May 2002
  Czech Republic 16 May 2002
  Germany 16 May 2002
  Denmark 16 May 2002
  Finland 16 May 2002
  United Kingdom 16 May 2002
  Hong Kong 16 May 2002
  Croatia 16 May 2002
  Hungary 16 May 2002
  Ireland 16 May 2002
  Italy 16 May 2002
  Jordan 16 May 2002
  Kuwait 16 May 2002
  Kazakhstan 16 May 2002
  Lebanon 16 May 2002
  Lithuania 16 May 2002
  Latvia 16 May 2002
  Malaysia 16 May 2002
  Norway 16 May 2002
  New Zealand 16 May 2002
  Philippines 16 May 2002
  Poland 16 May 2002
  Puerto Rico 16 May 2002
  Romania 16 May 2002
  Russia 16 May 2002
  Sweden 16 May 2002
  Singapore 16 May 2002
  Slovenia 16 May 2002
  Slovakia 16 May 2002
  Syria 16 May 2002
  Thailand 16 May 2002
  Turkey 16 May 2002
  United States 16 May 2002
  Belgium 17 May 2002
  Burkina Faso 17 May 2002
  Bulgaria 17 May 2002
  Ivory Coast 17 May 2002
  Estonia 17 May 2002
  Spain 17 May 2002
  France 17 May 2002
  Greece 17 May 2002
  Israel 17 May 2002
  Iceland 17 May 2002
  Morocco 17 May 2002
  Netherlands 17 May 2002
  Portugal 17 May 2002
  Taiwan 17 May 2002
  Egypt 29 May 2002
  India 7 June 2002
  Ukraine 8 June 2002
  Colombia 14 June 2002
  Bolivia 20 June 2002
  Guatemala 21 June 2002
  Honduras 21 June 2002
  Panama 21 June 2002
  South Africa 21 June 2002
  Costa Rica 28 June 2002
  Brazil 1 July 2002
  Mexico 1 July 2002
  Venezuela 3 July 2002
  Argentina 4 July 2002
  Belize 4 July 2002
  Chile 4 July 2002
  Dominican Republic 4 July 2002
  South Korea 5 July 2002
  Paraguay 5 July 2002
  Uruguay 5 July 2002
  Barbados 10 July 2002
  Jamaica 10 July 2002
  Trinidad and Tobago 10 July 2002
  Nicaragua 11 July 2002
  China 12 July 2002
  Ecuador 12 July 2002
  Japan 13 July 2002
  Peru 18 July 2002
  El Salvador 26 July 2002

Version 3D change

Country Premiere
  France 18 September 2013
  Chile 19 September 2013
  Denmark 19 September 2013
  Portugal 19 September 2013
  Brazil 20 September 2013
  Turkey 20 September 2013
  United States 20 September 2013
  New Zealand 3 October 2013
  United Kingdom 11 October 2013

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  1. "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.

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