Named in the title of 3 peer-reviewed works
Examples
La Force est avec George! Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones — Ciné-Bulles : Le cinéma d’auteur avant tout, 2002
Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones (Motion picture) — Sight & sound/Sight and sound, 2002
La Force est avec George! / Star Wars : Episode II — Attack of the Clones — Ciné-Bulles : Le cinéma d’auteur avant tout, 2002
Sources: Wikidata · OpenAlex · Library of Congress. The record of the motion picture, not an assessment of this cell.
FILM NOTES
Attack of the Clones arrived in 2002 as George Lucas's return to directing after a long absence, the second chapter in his prequel trilogy for Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox. It expanded the saga's political and romantic dimensions, deepening the mythology that would carry through to Anakin Skywalker's fall. The film pushed digital filmmaking further than its predecessor, with entire sequences built in virtual environments, and it introduced audiences to a wartorn galaxy on the brink of galactic conflict, setting the stage for the Clone Wars era.
This cell centers on Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, the couple whose forbidden romance drives much of the film's emotional core. Padmé, senator and former queen, and Anakin, the apprentice Jedi drawn toward attachment and eventual darkness, remain among the most sought-after pairings from the prequels for collectors tracing the saga's tragic arc. A 35mm cell bearing both names preserves a piece of that central relationship, offering a physical fragment of the reel where their story, and the galaxy's fate, quietly begins to turn.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
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