Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show

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'."

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[cthulu_mt]

Not to nitpick; but where in the prequel trilogy did Anakin have the spare time to take a Padawan?

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[patrixmyth]

And so we can assume that at the end of the series, he slaughters her along with the rest of the padawans? What a lovely cartoon moment that will make. Kids, hurry in, Star Wars is on!

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[somersault]

All together now...

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNuoooooooo000000000000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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[peragrin]

dude his padawan is a tw'liek slave girl, and he is a horny teenager.

this can only end with him showing her his lightsaber.

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[geminidomino]

Maybe they mean Anakin Solo (Han/Leia's youngest)? Did he live long enough to take a Padawan?

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[rasputin465]

Not to nitpick; but where in the prequel trilogy did Anakin have the spare time to take a Padawan?

I'm pretty sure that at the beginning of the 3rd movie, Anakin is already a Jedi (though not a master), although it's pretty clear that he is still partnered with Obi-Wan.

There are over 100 books in the star wars extended universe spanning a huge timeline... Ok, I'm assuming at least a few slashdotters have read a fair number of these. Does anyone know if there's any mention of Anakin ever taking a Padewan?

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[Captain Splendid]

Also, the Clone Wars miniseries on Cartoon Network gave the distinct impression that a few years have passed between 2 and 3. And what with, y'know, a war raging on, there's possibilities for a ton of stories set during that timeline.

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[SuiteSisterMary]

I think the idea is that 10 years pass between Ep. 2 and Ep. 3, and the idea is that Anakin and Obi-Wan are *re*united for the mission to save the Chancellor; after 2 but before 3, Anakin becomes a Knight, and the two of them split up to go do their own things; Obi-Wan, having successfully trained a Padawan into a Knight is awarded the rank of Master, given command of an Army, and off he goes. Anakin, meanwhile, now a Knight, is sent off as more of a captain than a general.

This would also explain some of

Also Ties to Force Unleashed

[PaulMorel]

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:Also Ties to Force Unleashed

[Beyond_GoodandEvil]

Also, in the upcoming Force Unleashed game, you play as a female sith.
Umm, no according to The Wookieepedia the main char is a Human Male [wikia.com] done by the guy who played LT in the first season of Battlestar Galactica. Anyways, during the previous cartoon network Clone Wars, there was Sidious, Tyranus, and the chick who tries to kill Anakin, so they apparently don't hold fast to the two and only two rule.

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[hanshotfirst]

I thought the chick was a bounty hunter and not a sith. Maybe I missed something.

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[Orleron]

I've got a bad feeling about this.

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[webword]

Padawan or ... mistress?

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[johannesg]

Not to nitpick; but where in the prequel trilogy did Anakin have the spare time to take a Padawan?

Come on, he was surrounded by Padawans. All he had to do was lure one to his room and, uhm, introduce him or her to his "light sabre"...

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[2names]

That is a good question. I was under the impression that there were always 2 and only 2 Sith at any given time. The Sith student kills the Master, becomes the Master, and takes on a student. Am I way off base here?

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[Bloke down the pub]

I was under the impression that there were always 2 and only 2 Sith at any given time.The Sith student kills the Master, becomes the Master, and takes on a student. Am I way off base here?

Not even close. Think about the delay in placing the advert, time spent sifting the resumés and then the interviews, oh Lord, the intwerviews! What if the successful canditate has to give a month's notice or has a holiday booked?

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[nomadic]

I always took that to mean that Sith traveled in pairs, not that there were only two in the world, but I don't know.

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

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[Joe the Lesser]

I always read that as:

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)

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[jollyreaper]

I always read that as:

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)

So why in the name of FUCK would a Sith ever take on an apprentice?! Why would they even care about carrying on the Sith traditions? Honestly, that's probably the dumbest thing Lucas put in the nuTrilogy and I'm including midichlorians, the Anakin/Padme romance, and Jar-Jar Binks.

No, with the Sith, it would have to be the traditions that keep them alive. If you consider the Jews, they've persisted as a unique cultural identity for so long because of the strength of their religion and traditions. They set themselves apart from their host society, there's lots of social approbation for keeping it within the religion, not inter-marrying, etc. You compare them with their biblical contemporaries, all of those people have been subsumed by new cultural groups. The Philistines, Romans, their descendants probably aren't even aware of their own lineage.

What the Sith would have to be is a highly arrogant in-group, selected by a pure meritocracy, with an understanding that they hang together or will surely hang separately. There would be great pride taken in being amongst this august order, the very name of which causes planetary populations to cower. But they tend not to congregate in great numbers because that many egos bouncing around in the same room would lead to violence. If you consider sharks, some can school and some are solitary. They may attack each other in the open sea and in a feeding frenzy certainly and yet they're able to suppress the feeding instinct from time to time and can get close enough to mate. If they could not, they would go extinct. The Sith would pride themselves in being better than everyone else and would have their own code of honor they use in dealing with other Sith. They'd have to or else they'd tear themselves apart. The way Lucas portrays the Sith, they would go extinct! Now of course there are going to be Sith who are rather antisocial, even by Sith standards. The kind that would use guile and deceit and violence against other Sith, he would end up seeing himself shunned. None of the other Sith would put themselves at risk. So he can go off and be his chaotic evil badass self, conquer planets, get himself defeated, but he certainly wouldn't represent the whole order of the sith and defeating him doesn't mean you've seen the end of them.

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[Rolgar]

According to Wikepedia, the KotOR video game set 4000 years prior to the movies had a 'Sith Armada' headed by Darth Malak. This Sith Armada seemed to be manned by many people referred to as Sith, but maybe by the time in the movies, the ordinary Sith are gone and there are just the two? While it would seem to be a very precarious situation for the Sith to only have two, maybe there is some way the Sith Lords can be rebooted in the event of the death of both?

Maybe it's not surviving that they are going for

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[meringuoid]

KOTOR featured a Sith army, most of whom were not Force users, just troopers. The leading Sith broadly followed the rule of two: Darth Revan and Darth Malak, then Darth Malak and Darth Bandon, then Darth Dark Side Player and Darth Spoiler. However, they weren't above training a large number of dark-side Force users. Indeed, they ran an academy on Korriban, whose head staff themselves followed a rule of two in microcosm, and were repeating the predictable pattern of the subordinate trying to kill off the sup

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[bckrispi]

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."

That's actually the whole point. The ultimate goal of a Sith is to be the single biggest badass in the galaxy. It's not about sharing power and Dark Side knowledge with a legion of potential assassins. There are always two. No more, no less. A master and an apprentice. Eventually, the apprentice will feel he is ready to take down his master. (Darth Sidious killed his master, Darth Plagious.) But this is no easy task. An apprentice will often try to recruit a potential acolyte to help him accomplish this (Tyrannus tried pulling in Obi-wan. Vader tempted Luke). In turn, the Sith Master may have someone take down an overly ambitious (read: dangerous) apprentice (Sidious had Anakin kill Tyranus and tried to make Luke kill Vader).

This "rule of two" is what allowed Sidious to take over the Galaxy. The Sith were able to slip into the highest levels of the Republic, right under the Jedis' noses. They didn't need an army of Sith to do this, but an army of blindly loyal droids and clones.

"Always 2 there are..."

[Comboman]

When they discover one sith (Darth Maul), Yoda says "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice." This means that there is at least one more, but I don't think it precludes the possibility of more pairs of sith.

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[ubrgeek]

The Comic Book Guy [wikipedia.org] must be on a lunch break. I'm sure he'll chime in when he gets back ...

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[portforward]

Even a sith university.

What did they call the Football team? The Fighting Gundarks?

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[s_p_oneil]

At least 10 years passed between episodes 2 and 3. He could've had a Padawan that died just before episode 3 started. If you look at the deleted scenes on the episode 3 DVD, they show Grievous killing a young female Jedi in front of Anakin and Obi-Wan. She could've been his apprentice.

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[Floritard]

Anakin's padawan, will be the first female Jedi to be a character of focus...

Hey, George, Here's a stick

[geminidomino]

See that greasy, horse-shaped mark on the concrete? Have at it, mate.

Translation

[Jaysyn]

"I really, really wanted to squeeze some more cash out of this franchise. I have my eye on a small island, you know."

Re:Unfair

[geminidomino]

Sure he is in business, but he truly loves the rich detail and intricate delivery of his stories.

Except when he has to retcon said "rich details" to squeeze in a new character.

Seriously... if he wants to keep the SW universe going, good for him. All he has to do is *leave the goddamn Skywalkers/Solos out of it*. This would make it a lot easier to stop stepping on his own characters' backstories.

Re:Unfair

[shewfig]

That same love of detail you mention combines with his personal wealth to ensure that, whatever stories he's trying to tell, Lucas is telling poorly.

Lucas makes a great producer, perhaps even a decent writer, but a lousy director. I can't bear to watch him squander the talent he had in the prequilogy. He spent so much time creating a "rich texture" visually that his actors came across completely flat.

The result is a distance between the audience and the movie, a decrease in satisfaction, and an increasing level of frustration. In our current cynical society, it's easy to discard Lucas as "greedy" for delivering lackluster material. Granted, it's equally easy for me to say he's "disconnected from his fanbase", or "full of himself." That doesn't mean that any of those statements are true, just easy to believe.

The real questions, IMHO, are:
1) Does he know that there are people who don't like what he's made?
2) Does he care?

This leads to a 2x2 grid where the corners are:
11: Lucas keeps trying to make something better, to make it up to us.
10: Lucas is just making more Star Wars stuff to make money.
01: Lucas truly believes that we love Star Wars and can't get enough.
00: Lucas just makes Star Wars for himself.

Any of which I'm willing to believe.

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[baxissimo]

Most of his rebuttal over the Jar Jar fiasco was basically "These movies are for kids -- they've always been for kids. You just grew up."

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. :-)

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[rolfwind]

Except Lucas has to recognize that the generation of kids who watched the prequels aren't even 1/100 as attached to it as the ones who saw the original movies growing up.

Not that it's all his fault -- internet, Matrix, Harry Potter -- lots of strong competion.

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[geminidomino]

Most of his rebuttal over the Jar Jar fiasco was basically "These movies are for kids -- they've always been for kids. You just grew up."

I think it's a load of hooey, but I can believe that he believes that.

One has to wonder, though... Awful lot of dismemberment and decapitations for kids' movies

Re:Unfair

[Rogerborg]

[Lucas] loves the rich detail and intricate delivery of his stories.

Meesa gonna mock you now.

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[MobileTatsu-NJG]

What do you have to deal with when you are famous? People who attack you BECAUSE you are famous?

If you really think that's the reason people dislike George Lucas then you should do less arguing and more listening. So far, you're nowhere near the mark.

New Stories? How about going beyond ROTJ?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm tired of every "new" story Lucas does taking place before Episode 4. Yeah, we get it, Annakin turns into Darth Vader. He's probably going to corrupt this new girl Jedi. Who cares? What happens to the Empire after the destruction of the second Death Star? The Rebel Alliance? The new Jedi(s)? Anything? Hello? Enough with the prequels already.......

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[snl2587]

Enough with the prequels already.......

As you probably know well, there were many books written after ROTJ detailing the events thereafter and not so many written about what happened before ANH. So, rather than contradict all of the fan fiction, Lucas is choosing to tell stories in a relatively uncharted Star Wars era.

This is also one of the reasons Lucas has given for not making any more movies describing the events after ROTJ.

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[CrashPoint]

Lucas has demonstrated that he is perfectly willing (for better or worse) to disregard the continuity established in secondary Star Wars media. The origin of Boba Fett, the nature of the Clone Wars, and the "stormtroopers = clones" thing come to mind, and I'm sure a less casual fan than I could name a dozen more.

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[ari_j]

So--and just so I'm clear on this--George Lucas wants to avoid contradicting fan fiction by introducing a character who is Anakin Skywalker's padawan, when it is clear that, in the time before he became Darth Vader he could not possibly have had one.* Are you sure that it's not just more profitable to cash in on existing characters in a time period well-known to the target audience than it would be to create all-new characters in a post-ROTF time period?

* - Based on the fact that Obi-Wan had Anakin at h

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[Fozzyuw]

Who cares? What happens to the Empire after the destruction of the second Death Star?

There are some very excellent novels [wikipedia.org] out there that take place right after the events of the second Death Star destruction. Some say the "Thrawn" series is the defacto trilogy after RotJ.

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[Ruprecht the Monkeyb]

They already fucked that up by letting every hack writer with a word processor turn his fanfic into canon. Those bitching about what Lucas has done to his own creation should check out what some people have done with the EU. Read enough of that crap and you'll eventually come to regard Phantom Menace as high art.

Also Starring

[VaDi110]

Maybe Lucas can invite the Care Bears in the role of the Ewooks xD. IMO, a cartoon it is not a good end for the Star Wars series.

It's already gone on for parsecs too long

[Hognoxious]

IMO, a cartoon it is not a good end for the Star Wars series

But it's better than none, and better late than never.

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[stonefry]

Can we please get a +1 Nerd Alert mod?

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[FredDC]

not a good end for the Star Wars series

No, I'm sure George will find new and exciting ways of continuing the "saga". Anyway, he can do whatever he wants, I'm done with it!

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[somersault]

There already was an Ewoks cartoon series (which I used to watch before I knew they were from the Star Wars universe), so use the Ewok cartoon characters instead. What's your point?

Who cares?

[realmolo]

The "Clone Wars" are boring, and we know how they end.

Jedi are boring.

Anakin is boring even for a Jedi.

Lucas has a major hard-on for Jedi, but they are just incredibly limited as characters in a story. What we need is a "Star Wars" show based on a young Han Solo.
   

My Kingdom for Mod Points...

[Penguinisto]

No shit, 'mano. I'd for one would like to see WTF this whole Star Wars universe actually looks like when the lightsaber-toting folks aren't around.

(and maybe something, somewhere, that shows at least some rebel forces who do more than act as synonyms for the Star Trek Red Shirts?)

/P

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[vux984]

"Many Bothans died to get us this information"

Yup... just... one long trail of redshirts.

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[somersault]

Jedi aren't really that boring (for example they're awesome fun to play as in computer games).. it's Lucas that's boring. He would make young Han Solo boring if nobody else intervened in the script writing.. meh.

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[revco_38]

Let me share a comment from a post here on slashdot a year or two ago regarding a younger Han Solo. They did make this series, it's called Firefly. At the time, I had not seen Firefly but that single comment made me go out and seek the series. I was not disappointed. To this day, that is still how I view Firefly's Captain Reynolds.

Re:Who cares?

[StaticEngine]

We had that, kinda. It was called Firefly.

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[Lumpy]

Ohh OHHH! I got the title for you!

Star Wars BABIES! baby anakin, Baby yoda, baby JarJar......

I'll go shoot myself now for even suggesting it.

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[gardyloo]

Are there Ponies!!!! involved?

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[Joe Tie.]

OMG!!! PONIES!!! Speaking of that, I noted that google docs actually looks a bit like the OMG PONIES theme from slashdot of years past.

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[sadler121]

Better yet, do a Movie/TV Series on the knights of the old republic.

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[jellomizer]

That is what I always thought was missing from Ep 1-3 A Han Solo like charactor. A hero without the force and who isn't trying to be nice and goody and who isn't bipolar. Who treats the stupid characters as stupid and the smart ones with respect (not admiration).

Correct me if I'm wrong...

[damn_registrars]

... but wasn't the star wars holiday special also (at least partially) animated?

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[Itninja]

Yeah it was. And it sucked big time. But it did give us Boba Fett, so I guess it wasn't a total loss.

Didn't he try this already?

[Animats]

Wasn't there some kind of Star Wars animated TV series a few years back? Did anybody notice?

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[techpawn]

I have a feeling this won't be much different except this time it's CG and not traditional animation.

And not [imdb.com] very GOOD [imdb.com] CG at that. I wouldn't be so disappointed if it felt like some REAL effort was put into making it high quality CG Movie and not just a Video Game [starwars.com] tie in and mechanica money grab.

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[Stormwatch]

And not very GOOD CG at that.

Let me fix it for you:

And not very GOOD [imdb.com] CG at that.

Not interested at all

[Kindgott]

I saw the "trailer" or whatever they're passing off that "we're talking this up and showing as little actual footage as possible" video as.

As soon as I saw the "quality" of the CG and character design, I lost what little interest I had in watching these clone wars.

And here I thought it couldn't get much worse than the animated shorts they had on Cartoon Network a few years back.

Ahsoka?

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Ahsoka? Will this character be like that Asok in Dilbert comics? The nerd from my alma mater, IIT?

BTW, Emperor Ashoka, [wikipedia.org] won a bloody war, had a change of heart and renounced violence. His empire disintegrated shortly thereafter.

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[Col. Klink (retired)]

I think he had to introduce a new character so that he can later re-re-edit the original trilogy showing this character to be central to the story.

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[Hognoxious]

Ahsoka?

Bless you!

Oh, really? (Re:Ahsoka? )

[jejones]

I felt a huge disturbance in the Force, as if Japanese speakers and students everywhere emitted a mighty groan...

Ah, well. At least if the character dies, we could maybe hear some Jay Ungar and Molly Mason mixed in with the John Williams, as they play "Ahsoka Farewell".

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[vux984]

Right, he should be naming cars...

Integra, Maxima, Altima...

At least lucas doesn't over use the letter 'A'.

Kee-fuckin'-rist. Put a nail in the coffin.

[crovira]

And move on.

He's DEAD Jim.

I didn't even bother with the last set of movies.

Obligitory...

[downix]

<insert="darth vader no!.wav">

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[goldspider]

DO NOT WANT!!!

A little off topic re: Indiana Jones

[the computer guy nex]

George, old friend, please tell me you didn't ruin another set of classic American movies. Sean Connery turning down his role I hope is not as telling as it seems.

Oblig Quotes

[andphi]

"You don't want to sell me a new series. You want to go home and rethink your profession."

"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!"

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[Bloke down the pub]

and finally "It's a Trap!"

That's what I was thinking. It rhymes with it, anyway.

It's a trap!!

[Joe the Lesser]

It's a trap! [itsatrap.net]

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[Floritard]

You forgot the most appropriate one.

"I have a very bad feeling about this..."

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[Viceroy Potatohead]

Or, as Chewy said in one of his rare, lucid moments: "Grrrughgrhgrhgrhrgghugh"

Dammit, now I want to go Photoshop-up some Chewbacca Lulzcats...

Crappy CGI, brought to you by LugreedFilms...

[nweaver]

Is it just me, or does the CGI look like your now cliche Saturday morning cartoon? Plastic toys brought to life? Or a bad tie-in Video game's cutscenes?

No care in character design? No fluidity of momevemnt? No rendering time for clean textures? No unique style like Genndy Tartakovsky's "Clone Wars"?

Assassin's Creed looks better than that, and its rendered in real time on a single X-Box!

Star wars used to have some class, like the Holiday Special [wikipedia.org].

Uh Oh

[Gadgetfreak]

I've got a bad feeling about this...

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[Rob T Firefly]

Do not want.

Not a Master

[thomas.galvin]

I'm being kind of pedantic, but wasn't one of the reasons Anakin turned all red-eyed and broody because the Jedi refused to make him a Master? So how does he have a Padawan?

And, is she hot?

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[Yvanhoe]

And, is she hot?

I think this is an easy guess.

Re:Not a Master

[demaria]

According to Wikipedia, Jedi Knights can take on padawans. Jedi Master status is granted after successfully training at least one padawan.

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[wizardforce]

So how does he have a Padawan?

in secret, although I really doubt that would make much sense here then again Lucas will find some way to "make it work"... *shudder* this can only end badly.

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[geminidomino]

Usually, a Jedi isn't considered a master until AFTER he has taken a padawan and trained him to completion.

Of all the things wrong with this entire concept, it's not the training timeline.

Anakin got a Padawan?

[SpeedRacer]

I'd like to know who signed off on Anakin taking a padawan. After the council giving Qui-Gon and Obi Wan the business about taking Anakin as a padawan, did some low-level functionary who could be Force-manipulated get put in charge of assigning padawans? Geez. Even Societe Generale had better fraud controls than that...

ahsoka?

[Speare]

Ugh, please don't tell me that this padawan resembles a Japanese chick. With all the other punly names in Star Wars (Grievous? Porkins?), the cliche phrase, "ah, sou ka?" (Japanese for "oh, really?") is all that comes to mind.

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[Acebob]

I was actually reminded of the Indian Emperor Ashoka before any Japanese reference.

Re:ahsoka?

[Erpo]

General Grievous isn't such a bad name. I always liked to imagine that he had a whole chain of command underneath him. You know, Private Painful reports to Sergeant Shocking, who receives orders from Lieutenant Lamentable (or Colonel Catastrophic), both of which fear and obey Brigadier General Baleful. Maybe Admiral Atrocious comes to visit sometimes.

For me, this is one of the major delights of the Star Wars franchise.

Star Trek

[airship]

I sure hope the animation quality is up to the standard set by the excellent 'Star Trek' animated series!

Seriously, though the animation sucked, the animated Star Trek often had much better stories than the original Trek. Let's hope this series does as well. Only with better animation. MUCH better animation.

Yes -- if T.Catt does the art

[1u3hr]

These are the padawans [catthouse.com] I want to see; hot grits optional.

Action Figures first then the idea...

[MosesJones]

Does anyone get the sensation that George has spotted that the demographic for Star Wars is massively male and is now looking at flogging more toys to the other 50% of the population? You can imagine it now...

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.

Potential

[DarthVain]

Personally I thought the Clone War Animated Series was better than the real thing. I am not sure if Lucus had anything to do with that one though, so who knows what this new one will look like.

Perhaps they'll cover the "Chewbacca Defense"

[b0101101001010000]

"...this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!"

"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]

As a fan, I would like to see...

[JasonEngel]

... a storyline about a band of smugglers being hunted down by Jedi.

Oh wait, that was Firefly.

OK, maybe if George just gave someone enough money to bring back Firefly with all the pre-Serenity characters I would be happy. Oh, yeah, and His Georgeness must not write or direct. Or produce. Or advise. Just pay.

what he meant to say was...

[jollyreaper]

"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's a lot more milk in them titties and ahm's aimin' to suck it all out.' Lucas, never one to stop while he was ahead, continued talking. 'I'm not content with just raping everyone's collective childhood memory of Star Wars. What's a single rape, after all? I kept it in a cage and went back to it repeatedly while releasing the new trilogy. Finally, I choked it to death with my bare hands, looking it in the eyes, nutting the moment I saw it die. I buried it in a shallow grave out in the woods. Well, it's been a few years and I enjoyed the experience so what the hell, I dug that bastard up and I'm fixing to give it another go.' 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. 'Come on,' Lucas continued. 'You fags whinge and yet every time I rererererelease a new DVD, you lap it up. With every passing moment, you become more and more my bitch.' 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'. 'See what I did here? This makes not a jot of sense. There was no interval between Anakin being a padawan and falling to the Dark Side. It's chronologically impossible. It would make just as much sense if I said he fathered and raised a son to adulthood when cutting between two scenes five minutes apart. And you know what? You fags will still buy the DVD's! I'll see you nerds dressed up like Ahsoka at all the conventions. I shit in your mouths and you pay me money! My scifi cult's still legal in Germany. L. Ron Hubbard can suck my dick!' Lucas continued to rant long after the battery on my tape recorder died."

Fixed it for ya.

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[Jaysyn]

Maybe it will be filmed like "24".

Re:Retcon much, George?

[Spudtrooper]

Strictly speaking, Anakin was promoted to Jedi Knight during the original Clone Wars animated mini-series, which means this series would take place sometime during the timespan glossed over by the mini-series (the long, drawn-out portion of the war).

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[kellyb9]

Ticket sales clearly don't reflect your opinion. There's certaintly more money to be made from this franchise. I secretly always hoped they did the trilogy after the first three movies (or the last three depending on what order you're considering). Episodes 7,8,9 have been written into books, but I dont know if theres any plan to do anything with those.