Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show 270
Sasseen writes "George Lucas has announced that the animated Star Wars television show, which we've discussed previously, will be kicking off with a feature-length theatre release. Lucas felt that, 'there were a lot more 'Star Wars' stories left to tell. I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the animation forward.' A fully animated film will be released in theaters on August 15 with a TV series of more than 30 episodes planned to follow on Cartoon Network and TNT. Also of note from the article, 'A new character named Ahsoka, Anakin's padawan, will be the first female Jedi to be a character of focus'."
Hey, George, Here's a stick (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Timeline (Score:5, Funny)
Also Starring (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Retcon much, George? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Timeline (Score:2, Funny)
I thought that at first, but I remember reading something on the starwars website to say there were only two. If that's true it's kind of idiotic, the Sith survived by limiting their numbers to TWO? In a galaxy of a few trillion? A group's pretty much not surviving anymore when there only two of them. That's like saying "we figured out how to keep our army from vanishing--we're going to whittle the number of soldiers down to two and have those two guys spend their lives in hiding."
Obligitory... (Score:4, Funny)
Oblig Quotes (Score:5, Funny)
"That's no franchise. That's a merchandising opportunity!"
"Don't try to frighten us with your director's ways, Lord Lucas. Your hidebound dedication to that re-imagined franchise hasn't given you the clairvoyance to see what the fans want or the insight to leave things well enough alone."
"I find your lack of plot disturbing."
and finally
"It's a Trap!"
Re:Timeline (Score:3, Funny)
Not a Master (Score:5, Funny)
And, is she hot?
Anakin got a Padawan? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Timeline (Score:5, Funny)
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Re:Obligitory... (Score:3, Funny)
Action Figures first then the idea... (Score:4, Funny)
Toy Industry Rep (TIR): We've just got the figures in and its great, we are selling loads of toys to boys
George: What about girls?
TIR: Well Star Wars is a boy thing so its not really targeted at them
George: What about if I created a new animated series that had a female lead?
TIR: Its still really a guy thing...
George: What about if she wears lots of pink and is a ballerina princess with a cute white dog?
TIR: Wouldn't that completely undermine the whole vision of Star Wars?
George: Jar Jar Binks.....?
TIR: Good point. Well George I'll get the focus groups working on it and we'll get back with the female character that most girls would buy the action figure for.
George: Excellent, I'll go out and kill a horse while I'm waiting.
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Funny)
Star Wars BABIES! baby anakin, Baby yoda, baby JarJar......
I'll go shoot myself now for even suggesting it.
Re:Timeline (Score:4, Funny)
this can only end with him showing her his lightsaber.
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps they'll cover the "Chewbacca Defense" (Score:2, Funny)
"Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!"
"If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests."
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense [wikipedia.org]
Re:Timeline (Score:2, Funny)
"Hello Mrs. Smith, this is my son Adolf Stalin Falwell Hitler."
Re:ahsoka? (Score:5, Funny)
For me, this is one of the major delights of the Star Wars franchise.