A teenage Anakin Skywalker and Queen Amidala are said to remain central characters against the backdrop of the much talked about Clone Wars.

In the movie, the Republic faces a new threat from the Instem Arm of space, a legion of clone warriors - their armour vaguely reminiscent of the uniform worn by bounty hunter Boba Fett.

The force behind this endless stream of soldiers is of course the corrupt maniac who is aiming to become the Emperor, the duplicitous Senator Palaptine.

Also said to be starring in the movie is a young Chewbacca (wookies live for an average of 200 years, so they tend to hang around for a bit), and the wookie's dangerous home world, where Obi-Wan and the other characters flee the advancing clone legions following the collapse of a key Republic star system.

The movie starts off with a major space battle, which according to our sources, is going to be on scale unlike anything that has been seen before, special effects-wise, using some new FX techniques that Lucas has kept in stealth mode especially for the movie (a new form of CGI rendering, perhaps?).

This space battle is a surprise attack on the Republic fleet which was described to us in hushed tones by our source as 'Pearl Harbour in a massive Orbital Dock facility', and will be a death blow from which the Republic will find it near impossible to recover from.

Only the brave but outnumbered Jedi Knights are left to hold the line as the near limitless ranks of clones push on deep into the Republic's space.

Yoda and Mace Windu are said to see some action, leading the fight back from a never seen before Jedi warship which is already said to have sucked up an immense amount of computer graphic processing power in an attempt by Lucas's creatives to push the envelope of film goers' expectations of what is possible in a movie.