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'."
New Stories? How about going beyond ROTJ? (Score:5, Interesting)
Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score:3, Interesting)
Ahsoka? (Score:3, Interesting)
BTW, Emperor Ashoka, [wikipedia.org] won a bloody war, had a change of heart and renounced violence. His empire disintegrated shortly thereafter.
ahsoka? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Timeline (Score:3, Interesting)
There may exist more than two, but only two work together, because master Siths don't trust each other, or are killed by their padawans. Siths don't have more than 1 padawan because the padawans would probably off each other in the competition anyway. (remember how palpatine wanted luke as his apprentice...probably to replace vader who was getting old and independent...so he wanted luke to kill his father, lose himself to darkness, and then become the next padawan)
Re:Unfair (Score:3, Interesting)
I think it's a load of hooey, but I can believe that he believes that.
So I think he doesn't mind if the average slashdot reader doesn't like what he's made as long as "the kids" find it entertaining.
But nice Karnaugh map of the Lucas psyche, anyway.
Also Ties to Force Unleashed (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, in the upcoming Force Unleashed game, you play as a female sith. Supposedly the unknown apprentice of Darth Vader. The character in this TV series may NOT be killed when Anakin kills the other padawans, rather, she may fall to the dark side with him, and be the apprentice in that game.
This is just speculation though.
Re:Unfair (Score:3, Interesting)
Not that it's all his fault -- internet, Matrix, Harry Potter -- lots of strong competion.