CG Television Clone Wars Trailer Released

Ant writes "The official Star Wars site has up the one minute and 50 second trailer for the upcoming computer rendered Clone Wars." I'm still not sold on the CG, but the models seem to be somewhat based on Genndy Tartakovsky's designs from the original Clone Wars series. Wikipedia offers a bevy of details on the series.

Come on geeks

[jzuska]

Star wars isn't cool anymore. Even for us.

Luke, I am your programmer

[Timesprout]

Noooo!

Why is Lucas wasting our time?

[Supurcell]

Why is George Lucas bothering to remake the Clone Wars shorts when he knows that everyone really wants prequels to the Ewok Adventure series? I want to see what Wilfred Brimley's character, from Ewoks: Battle for Endor, was like when he was a kid.

Eating Disorders

[thesupermikey]

Its to bad Leia looks like she has Anorexia.

Re:CG WTF?

[bmo]

"Lucas has written good stuff in his life; look at THX-1138."

Yes, but that was before the Star Wars _franchise_. It's no longer about the story. It's about the money, and how many people will grit their teeth while paying for movie tickets because all of us 40 year olds want our childhood back. But that's because we're all suckers and figure "well he can't rape our childhoods THAT much, can he?"

Yes. Yes he can. Meesa givesa upsa after Episode Onesa...

As to how far he can sink, do you remember the Christmas Special? Did you gouge your eyes out?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnVcbWQ2cg [youtube.com]

Bea...Arthur... BEA FREAKIN ARTHUR!

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BMO

The Clones War was pretty bad

[ColeonyxOnline]

I rented the Clone War animated series, it was incredible bad. All of the episodes were about the Jedi knights taking on entire armies with no other story lines to them.

The units sent with the knights would usually all die, except them, than they would just wipe every enemy on sight. But depending on the episode they would stop for a quick drink.

To me, those series did not match with the movies at all, if the knights were so freaking amazing, how in the heck were they wiped out, except for 2 of them? Or why send an entire army, when you could just send 1 knight?

I wonder if they will fix those issues.

Clone Wars: Special Edition

[EEBaum]

Assuming that wikipedia is correct and this is a continuation of the story from the original clone wars short, it is inevitable that these will be followed by a revisiting of the original Clone Wars cartoons.

Among the wonders to look forward to:

• The original Clone Wars cartoons will be redone in CG, as Lucas had originally wanted.
• Special appearance by Jabba the Hutt, where we discover that he and Obi Wan have done business for some time.
• Someone will shoot Anakin first, causing him to go aggro and eventually turn to the dark side entirely out of self-defense.
• All explosions will be accompanied by planar shockwaves.
• Death scenes of random insignificant characters will be shortened or removed entirely.
• The final episode will feature a galaxy-wide welcome-to-the-rainforest happy-fest victory party.
• Qui-Gon's disembodied head will accompany Obi Wan at all times, acting as his personal Jiminy Cricket.
• DVD Bonus Feature Deleted Scenes of Chewbacca's extended family.

Can't wait!!

Re:Production quality?

[GIL_Dude]

I'd never seen or heard of a clone wars cartoon (I am NOT saying that there wasn't one; just me being ignorant and had not heard of it or seen it). My first reaction on seeing this trailer though was: why would I want to watch this? It's a herky-jerky motion cartoon.

Even Yoda's got to be saying, "A cartoon I am in. Soon, the end of the franchise it will be."

Random thought...

[Anonymous Coward]

The vaguely engineer-looking character at about the 54-sec mark made me think that a down-to-earth Scotty-like character would make a nice counterpoint to all the mystical Jedi characters running around.

Yeah, I know, not gonna happen.

Re:Too little, too late...

[irm]

I can't say I'm sold on this.

Really? Even from the trailer, the acting strikes me as less wooden...

Re:CG WTF?

[dswensen]

Good lord, your post is like an explosion at the Lucas-bashing cliche factory.

Re:Not too impressed either

[RealSurreal]

Not that care, I

Is that you, Yoda?

Re:Not too impressed either

[Green Monkey]

I think you mean: "Do NOT want to hear Anakin's response" ... ;)

Re:Why is Lucas wasting our time?

[edwardpickman]

I want to see what Wilfred Brimley's character, from Ewoks: Battle for Endor, was like when he was a kid.

He looked pretty much the same just his diapers and mustache were smaller.

Re:Too little, too late...

[Grave]

(Yeah, there's some fanboy will argue that it is internally consistent, from a certain point of view, but that's crap. It requires you to reject everything the community believed for over 20 years, for that to be true.)

You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Re:Not too impressed either

[mobby_6kl]

No, a typo it was, sorry I am.

Re:Eh, CG...

[Docrates]

You mean the stiff faces and strained body language of the other three movies were NOT CG? oh man...

Re:Imageworks

[RespekMyAthorati]

Wait till you see Beowolf, the CG photo realistic humans will blow your mind.

Imagine a cluster of those ...