Star Wars: Episode
II Attack of the Clones is a 2002 film directed by George Lucas and written by Lucas and Jonathan Hales. It is the second film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
The film is
set ten years after the Battle of Naboo, when the galaxy is on the
brink of civil war. Under the leadership of renegade Jedi Master Count Dooku, thousands of systems threaten to secede from the
Republic. When an assassination attempt is made on Senator Padmé Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect her, while his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi is assigned to investigate the assassination attempt. Soon the Jedi are drawn into the
heart of the separatist movement, and the beginning of a
new threat to the galaxy: the Clone Wars.