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Animated Star Wars on Cartoon Network 219

Posted by CmdrTaco from the you-gotta-be-kidding dept.
NeoCode writes "There were rumours and speculations first. Now it looks like its a done deal. Harry Knowles, of AintItCool.com has reports on an animated version of Star Wars set after AOTC but before episode 3. This series is produced by Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack). The cartoons will be a series of short films. Could this infuse Star Wars with a new life or is this just another merchandising plot? Nevertheless, this could be quite interesting." Yeah look what good Ewoks & Droids did for the SW universe ;)
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  • "the ee ee ee ee ewoks"
    and that star wars cartoon they had back in the 80s?
    I barly do.

  • This has been done a long time ago (Score:5, Interesting)

    by archeopterix ( 594938 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:03AM (#4690616) Journal
    See telnet://blinkenlights.nl

  • Starwars... (Score:5, Funny)

    by shaitand ( 626655 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:06AM (#4690638) Journal
    I hate to see the already over commercialized star wars further cheapened like this. Are they going to have a Leia in the prisoner outfit???? If they do I'll watch it, cheap or not.

  • Let's hope it's better than Asciimation! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by ToadMan8 ( 521480 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:06AM (#4690644)
    Not that there's anything wrong with Asciimation [asciimation.co.nz] but I'm not sure if the masses would accept this sort of thing. Hey, and besides, your TV would need screen font anti-alaising! This thing should have sound too, it'd be really cool then...

  • Too "cartoony" (Score:3, Interesting)

    by MidoriKid ( 473433 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:07AM (#4690653)
    I've always been a fan of Tartakovsky's work, but I don't think his style suits the universe. I imagine it wouldn't have the detail that I need in a Star Wars franchise.
    • If you paid attention to his previous works you'd notice a bunch of details, I don't see why he wouldn't put as much detail in a SW cartoon as in Dexter's or the powerpuff.

      (Ever notice the A-Team van goin by in the streets of the city of TownsVille?)

      • Umm...different details. (Score:4, Insightful)

        by fireboy1919 ( 257783 ) <rustyp AT freeshell DOT org> on Sunday November 17, 2002 @02:14PM (#4691671) Homepage Journal
        Like making people look like people.

        Dexter is roughly the shape of a pill. Dee-dee and her friends have all of her limbs extending from a single point. All legs look like they did in the flintstones - like pipes that have a turn and end with a round stub (the turn is where the feet begin).

        Almost nobody has any noses, or the noses look very strange. Also, no one has normal looking hands - very few have thumbs, or a full complement of fingers (10 total). The powerpuff girls have no hands and no feet. Samurai Jack is a little better, but still...there is very little detail in the characters. Jack himself has fingers that are apparently glued together, since they never seem to separate. Also, his four fingers are all the same length, unlike human fingers (his thumb is opposable, they show that when he holds a sword).

        I would expect a Star Wars Universe to be much more lifelike since its based upon a live action universe, with, at the very least, five fingers on each hand, and the ability to move them the way humans do, and normally drawn noses. I don't expect that it'll happen because I think it costs more.

        Which means really, really bad reviews, I think.
        • Ah, ok.

          That's not "details", that style. : )

          The PPG, Samurai jack, Dexter, are all done in a very stylised way. (you explained it all, no need for me to repeat)

          They do that because it reduces the time it takes to do a frame (time is money), and for more artistic and less capitalist reasons too.
          Since those 3 cartoons were original creations, they were done in an "original" style (well, there are a lot of influences, the special blend is unique at least). For Star Wars I would expect that they would be asked to produce something in a style more closely ressembling that of the established characters (wich they can very well do, look at the Justice Friends characters from Dexter and the PPG, they look a lot like their Marvel inspirations). However, I wouldn't mind if they had the "square hand" look and all, its all in style, just because Star Wars is mostly a live-action product doesn't mean that they need to have photo-realistic drawings in an animated production.

          and normally drawn noses

          I hope you meant "normally" as in "characters from a race with a nose should have the nose drawn in", not in a "looking like the way I'm used for a nose-drawing to look" way...

    • "Too cartoony" is how I personally would describe the way the prequels look, with everything but the actors being generated by computers.
  • It'll be an interesting first show...you've got a series where millions of dollars have been dumped into redoing detailed features a la Special Editions, and it's being done by someone who likes to do series without a lot of detail (PPG and Dexter esp., don't watch too much SJ).

    Luke Skywalker with a squared off head might get a chuckle.
  • Umm... wait. Thats all GL knows. Time to pass the fire GL. Let someone else take a crack at SW!

    Is it just me. Maybe, becuase SW "NewHope" was just so new to us then. Have we become a jaded mess, filling our time until "The Matrix:Reloaded" comes out?

  • blurgh (Score:1, Troll)

    by Flamesplash ( 469287 )
    Oh dear god I think I'm going to be sick. When has a cartoon version of any real life movie suceeded? One? maybe two?
    • Not many, really. I can only think of a few, myself.

      The Real Ghostbusters comes to mind. That ran for quite some time - several years. Also, Voltron, which was basically a rehash of the old Ultraman movies (they're kind of like Godzilla flicks). MIB has done pretty well as well. Jumanji lasted one or two seasons, which was enough to make money.

      Captian Simian and the Spacemonkeys obviously drew its inspiration from the Starwars movies, and that one was on for a while (though you may not have heard about it - it was kind of a small scale cartoon).

      Of course, if we open up the category to include series based upon movies, there are a few more, though still not many.

      The ever popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a shining example of that. And we probably should add Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which are really just rehashes of Ultraman mixed with Voltron.

      And then there are all of the Spy shows inspired by James Bond: first Get Smart, and then Inspector Gadget, and then young Inspector Gadget (or whatever they called that).

      It all comes down to whether or not enough people identify with the ideas in the series to make it work. Just because its live action doesn't mean it doesn't translate into a cartoon or a series.

      However, the cartoon or series can't stand upon the concept of the movie to work, just as a sequel can't be a rehash of the first movie and expect that it will do incredibly well (*cough* Home Alone 2 *cough*). It has to have its own new ideas, even if it has the same beloved characters.

  • Additions to, complications of "the canon"? (Score:5, Informative)

    by JessLeah ( 625838 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:10AM (#4690668)
    Hmm. Well, this could be a boon to the Star Wars franchise (which of course has done amazingly well anyhow ;) ) or it could just throw the chances of any sequels (Episode VII, anybody?) into the toilet.

    It's simple, and I'll illustrate it by the example of Back to the Future. BTTF was a successful trilogy with many fans (among whom I am one), but then they introduced an animated TV show, and did a ride at Universal Studios: Florida, which used a plotline set after (fourth-dimensionally-speaking) all three of the movies. Both of these things added quite substantially to "the canon", as they were all officially blessed by the producers of the original BTTF trilogy.

    Every episode of any official "Star Wars" cartoon that's even remotely related to the Skywalker clan or other key figures from the series has the potential to -greatly- complicate the Star Wars "canon", and making another series of movies that fit with the sum of the existing canon that much more difficult...

    • There've been a lot of Star Wars spin offs and related items (books, video games, etc) that contradict or alter the details of the movies. How could it really make a big difference? These little pop-culture universes are malleable, just like any sort of folk-lore.

      • I guess, to me, the difference is in the size of the audience. Anything released on a movie or TV screen is hundreds of times more likely for any given fan to see (remember, the books are read mostly by geeks, and I'm not sure how much the additional plotlines from video games-- which also have a much smaller audience than anything movie/TV-- would be taken seriously). This means that anything on TV, or in movie form, introduces tons of new memories of the Star Wars Universe that Lucasfilm would have to work with, contradict or do-a-little-of-both to with any new film...
      • There've been a lot of Star Wars spin offs and related items (books, video games, etc) that contradict or alter the details of the movies.

        Can you provide an example? I find that hard to believe. This is hearsay, but I think that Lucas very carefully goes over the details of anything Star Wars to make sure the details are consistent with the rest of the universe before it gets the official seal of approval.

        • This is hearsay, but I think that Lucas very carefully goes over the details of anything Star Wars to make sure the details are consistent with the rest of the universe before it gets the official seal of approval.

          Haha, I seriously hope you were joking.

          If not, have a look at The Star Wars Holiday Special, novels like The Crystal Star, or pretty much any of the videogames to see any number of contradictions and alterations.

          IMO, the only detail anyone at Lucasfilm is concerned with re: spinoff products are the royalty fees.

        • I take it you haven't watched the "making of" things on the EpisodeII DVD yet...

          (This is slightly paraphrased, since I'm soing it from memory)
          Sam Jackson: "We were wondering who we talk to about light saber colors..."
          Lucas: "The bad guys get red and the good guys get blue or green, that's just the way it is."
          Jackson: "No purple?"
          Lucas: "You might get purple..."
    • George Lucas has said in interviews that he never intended to make a sequel trilogy and probably won't, then again the capitalist in him might prevail, if a sub-par Star Wars movies (read: Episode I) can make $200+ million at the box office then more Star Wars movies are easy cash. However considering how long it took him to start making Episode I it seems doubtful.

      As for complicating the Star Wars "canon" the general rule of thumb for any SciFi universe is to treat extretaneous sources (Books, animated series, etc.) as seperate and inconsequential in the universe. However there are exceptions, there's been a number of Babylon 5 books released drawn up on plot outlines written by J. Michael Straczynski that works nicely within the existing B5 canon, however there hasn't been many major B5 projects since Rangers. If Lucas is willing to write out some storylines for the animated series that fit into the existing Star Wars "canon", it could provide a nice treat for Star Wars fans.

      ~Noodle

      • > then again the capitalist in him might prevail

        Apparently, all of star wars was designed to make buckets [salon.com] of money [guardian.co.uk]. Interestingly, it's still fun to watch, so I guess Lucas has some kind of talent :)

        "I'm going to make five times as much money as Francis [Ford Coppola] on these science- ficton toys and I won't have to make The Godfather," he boasted to cult filmmaker John Milius. "I've made what I consider the most conventional kind of movie I can possibly make."

      • Actually, Lucas has a very specific universe, and all liscensed materal fits within it. If you go to there website, there is a timeline with every pieces of licensed material placed on it.(Possible with the exception of a certian Christmas spcecial)

        However Lucas is the exception to the rule.

    • Re:Additions to, complications of "the canon"? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:54AM (#4690907)
      The SW Expanded Universe (i.e., any story in a medium that's not the films: games, comics, novels, TV) has always been rather consistent with the original trilogy of films, and elements that originated in the EU were incorporated into the prequel films (the name of the Republic capital planet from the Thrawn novels, a Twi'lek Jedi from the comics, other names from places like the Droids series). The few problems have had "continuity fixes" in place for a long time now. Moreover, LucasFilm Licensing has always strived to make the EU consistent with itself, and you'll see things like novels referencing game characters (like the main character from the X-Wing PC games being a prominent general in the last New Jedi Order novel).

      This series is rumored to involve the Clone Wars, and LFL held a fairly large summit last summer to plot out the war's major events and decide in which medium they'll be covered. Episode III begins with the last battle of the Clone Wars, so there's no danger of something zany happening in the next film to throw out all the events being depicted in the interim. There's already been several post-AotC EU titles announced and released showing war events:

      • Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns (game)
      • Clone Wars (game)
      • The New Droid Army (game)
      • Boba Fett: Fight to Survive and Crossfire (children's novels)
      • Republic #49 and on (comic)
      • Shatterpoint (novel)
      There's an article on the CW publishing program here:

      http://www.starwars.com/eu/news/2002/11/news200211 15.html [starwars.com]

      SW licensed stories/etc. are different from things like Trek in that they're edited rigorously precisely to prevent continuity problems. It's all meant to be one story (whether it's a good one or not varies from audience member to audience member).

    • making another series of movies that fit with the sum of the existing canon that much more difficult... Lucas doesn't seem to bother with fitting the new movies in the "canon" of the original trilogy so why should what happens in a cartoon bother him? Or can you explain why Obi Wan didn't recognize R2 and C3P0 when he first saw them in the first movie or one of a hundred other plot holes?
    • They can always just take the tip from Anime, call it "Star Wars Flash" and later completely disregard anything that happened in it.

  • Animated Trek (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Crixus ( 97721 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:14AM (#4690684)
    The animated Trek series of the 70's didn't last long, but there were a few decent stories among the lot.

    Rich...

    • Re: Animated Trek (Score:3, Informative)

      by LostCluster ( 625375 )
      The animated Trek lasted two seasons, which finished the "five year mission" that the live action series promised even though NBC canned them after only three. (Now, there's an example of a short-sighted network move...)
      • After all, he only needed 30 minutes to save the universe and get the girl, instead of the hour he used to need.

      • Re: Animated Trek (Score:3, Informative)

        by steveha ( 103154 )
        William Shatner, in his book, said that Star Trek was done in by the primitive Nielson ratings of the day. At the time, they only looked at overall numbers, and other shows pulled higher overall numbers.

        These days they break the numbers out by demographics, and look at numbers within various categories. Star Trek appealed to some of the very desirable demographics: college-age people, for example.

        Had the studios been using more sophisticated ratings systems, Star Trek would have been seen as a success, and would have been around longer.

        steveha
    • If I understand correctly, wasn't Star Trek the show a huge flop at first? It took years before Paramount realized that some cancelled show from 10 years or so earlier was a huge hit? If so, then no wonder a cartoon released a little after the show was cancelled flopped too.

      Although, once again, I could be wrong in my above assumption...

  • This cartoon is probably going to be even worse than the one that spun off of [i]Men in Black[/i]

  • appealing to all age groups?? (Score:4, Funny)

    by SuperDuG ( 134989 ) <<kt.celce> <ta> <eb>> on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:19AM (#4690713) Homepage Journal
    Okay well with Episode I we got Jar Jar, then there was the ewoks in V I think. That covers tha younger crowd.

    Then we got Senator/Princess/soon-Milf/ Amedalla and Pricess Laya. That covers the middle age male crowd.

    Then we got Anakin, Obi Wan, Luke, and Han Solo. That covers the middle age female crowd.

    Then we got Episode II Yoda whoppin some ass, but then getting really tired. There's a happy senior citizen crowd.

    I think Lucas is just trying to appeal to as many people as possible to make as much money as possible. Make something for everyone and everyone will want one.

  • humping my childhood (Score:3, Interesting)

    by someguy ( 23968 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:29AM (#4690778)
    I wonder some days whether I would have liked the original trilogy even half as much if it were to come out now over when I was a wee little tyke.

    (hint:the answer is no.)

    I wonder how many people that were in their 20s when the original trilogy came out are at the same level of fandom as the people who are in their 20s now and grew up with the movies.

  • ewoks (Score:1)

    by effer ( 155937 )
    Put your sorry ass on an abandoned moon and beg for help!

  • same author as samurai jack (Score:5, Insightful)

    by hfastedge ( 542013 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:35AM (#4690804) Homepage Journal
    If its by tartakovski, i seriously think that this will be amazing.

    Samurai Jack is one of the most peaceful, and exhilirating cartoons I have watched. The director is not afraid of satisfying the modern day attention span. Rather, I find this show to be a truly artistic maverick in company with other more marketable shows. Example: in a given episode of Jack, you can easily find 2-3 minutes of pure silence, which brings out the mood of 2 great warriors resting midway through a battle, or a quiet brook trickling next to a snowy field where our hero is seen in the corner of the screen slowly making his way.

    Yet....the show is sorta cooky AND funny at times. Its VERY well done, as emersive as Aeon Flux for sure.

    I know the cartoon will be good.
  • As long as Lucas doesn't write it, it will be the best Star Wars since the original.

  • Moo.... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Chicane-UK ( 455253 ) <chicane-uk@[ ]world.com ['ntl' in gap]> on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:42AM (#4690842) Homepage
    Thats the sound of the cash cow, getting milked for all its worth.

    If they make a Star Wars cartoon, they can make a whole new range of merchandise to keep em going until Ep3 comes out..

    I wish they weren't so bloody obvious about it though.

  • Now, the question... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Pig Hogger ( 10379 ) <pig@hogger.gmail@com> on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:42AM (#4690846) Journal
    ... Will it be a cheap "Hanna-Barbera/Toei"-style flat animation, a good-quality "Looney-Tunes"-quality with Carl-Stalling-quality music flat animation, or will it use extensive CG (à la "Reboot") (and in that case, no one cares about the music)???
    • If you watch any of samuri jack, you will probably see that his style could work well for the star wars universe. I've seen episodes of samuri jack which have (i can only assume deliberately) a very SW style to them. Also, the fact that he does samuri well means he'll probably give luke and the other jedi some of the kick-ass quality and smoothness that mark hamil failed to. BLM
    • "(User #10379 Info | http://slashdot.org/) ... Will it be a cheap "Hanna-Barbera/Toei"-style flat animation, a good-quality "Looney-Tunes"-quality with Carl-Stalling-quality music flat animation"

      What, can't you read? Even by just glancing at the article description, I can tell you that it will be neo-HB Tartakovsky animation ala Dexter/Powerpuff/Jack. Duh!

  • This may work (Score:5, Funny)

    by scotay ( 195240 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:45AM (#4690860)
    Much of Lucas' dialog writing skillz come off like Mojo Jo Jo.

    Luke, I, Darth Vader, am your father! And you shall obey my commands because I am the father (not the son). It is I who you will obey! Obeying my commands is what you will do as the son. I will give you commands, and you will obey them! Ha ha ha ha ha! I do this because I am bad, I am evil, I am the father. I am Darth Vader!

    • If I had mod points, you, sir, would have them all.

      I thank God that I was not drinking as I read this, all I can picture is Mojo Jojo wearing a Vader mask. And pulling it all off without seeming out of place.

  • Let's take an objective (yeah, right) look at the Star Wars universe...

    First we have episodes 4,5, and 6. Taken in their own right they are a coherent plot spread over three movies, holding a single universe intact.

    Then add the many, many books and references, written after episodes 4-6. While each stands well in it's own right, very rarely do two seperate authors works integrate into the overall universe. The books have covered timeframes before the as yet unreleased episodes 1-3, after them, in between them, and anywhere else the authors felt prudent. The Star Wars universe has now grown more complex and massive than congruent unto itself.

    Then add the role playing games, cartoons, comics, etc. Over 20 years a lot of Star Wars information has come out.

    Now we come to the present, where Lucas is releasing episodes 1-3, and in so doing is pretty much ignoring everything other than the episodes 4-6, thus breaking what little (if any) continuity remains.

    So I would expect that any efforts to make a cartoon based off the movies would just further complicate and already messy universe.

    This seems to me like trying to build a Beowulf Cluster by combining 8086's running Minix, 2/386's running DOS, Mac IIgs's running MacOS, and whatever else happens to have been built over the last 20 years. Doable, but not easy or effective.

    • Re:Incoherence? Star Wars? (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Mr. Lucas has specified many times that the storylines in the deritative books, comics, cartoons and all other spin-offs are 'non-canonical'. The only plotline which matters is that of the movies. Which means all those bad Timothy Zahn books will not be determining the plotlines of episodes 7-10 if a third trilogy were to be made.

      I guess George wanted the merch money from a million tie-ins, knowing people will gobble it up.

      From the Star Wars Literature Compendium [geocities.com]:

      "According to the premiere issue of the Star Wars Insider, the only works "canonized" have been the movies and their respective screenplays, novelizations, and radio drama adaptations."

      Iopha
      • So does the "Star Wars Christmas Special" count as canon? It is, after all, a movie... of sorts.

        The fact that a completely fictional universe even has a notion of "canon" goes to show just how deep in Lucas' pocket so many fans are.

        If he were so concerned about the continuity, integrity, and quality of his little universe to begin with, he would never have allowed all those "non-canonical" profit mines to have been dug in the first place.

        You can't have it both ways: Either your art is a thing in and unto itself for its own sake (however stimulating it might be to outside contribution,) or it's a calculated commercial project designed not for any internal continuity or viewer-enlightenment/satisfaction, but only to encourage the sort of fetishism that translates to "spending lots of money on 'collectible' crap." I think Lucas has made it abundantly clear which side of that particular fence he walks his dog on.

  • Star Wars TV series (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Uncle George does not have a good history with the TV medium. Witness the 2 ewok adventures, Droids, and the steaming pile that is the Star Wars Holiday special. I will give it a chance but, I am not holding my breath.

    Star Wars does good film (usually) while Star Trek does good TV (again usually).

    • Re:Star Wars TV series (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Packets ( 8071 )
      When I was a kid I thoughly enjoyed the 2 ewok adventure movies, and the droids cartoon.

      I haven't seen them SINCE I was a kid, but I loved them back then.
  • Hell, who knows. This could be the best Star Wars since Empire.

  • Lucas in it for the money, again (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Gary Franczyk ( 7387 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @11:57AM (#4690920)
    I wouldn't get too enthused about it just yet. It has been evident that George Lucas not been in touch with the Star Wars phenomenon since Jedi. Since then, he has only been extending his retirement fund with poor quality "extensions" on the original masterpiece.

    - Rerelease of the originals with "additional" footage, with a slew of promotional and marketing gimmicks.
    - Three prequels, with a slew of promotional and marketing gimmicks.
    and now:
    - A cartoon version, with a slew of promotional and marketing gimmicks.

    • And the slew of promotional and marketing gimmicks that have been an inherent part of Star Wars since day one...

      Were you not alive in 1977? Merchandise has always been part of Star Wars. Merchandising makes money and keeps Pepsi ads out of the Coruscant billboards. More power to them is what I say.

      Moreover, little kids like action figures. When I was a kid, I had a ton of them. Was I being marketed to? Was Lucas making money because I liked action figures? Hell yes. But I also got a whole lot of fun out of it, and many fond memories of my childhood, and many entertaining conversations with good friends about the cool stuff we had when we were kids.

      And now, because I'm grown up and don't like action figures anymore, it suddenly has to be wrong and evil and George Lucas should die penniless and alone on some street corner for the unforgivable sin of spending his whole life trying to entertain himself and us, and kids today just don't get it and turn down that durn rock and roll music...

      Give it a rest. If you're so principled, go make your own movie, with money from your own pocket, and then sell it at a tremendous loss. Then you'll have proved yourself the better man.
    • Wow, you really don't know Lucas at all...

      For him, it's never been about the money. If it were, he would be cranking out Star Wars movies like James Bond films, and there would be 20 of them by now.

      The re-release of the films in 1997 was done not for money, but for several other key reasons:

      1) to restore the film, because the negative was badly deteriorated (if it hadn't been done at that time, the original negative would not have lasted another few years)
      2) to use the trilogy as a test bed for some new effects that he would need to have ready for Episode I
      3) as a kind of litmus test, to see if the public was still receptive to the aging franchise (which of course, it was)

      The merchandising is an important aspect of the films, as it allows Lucas to stay an independent producer. The money generated from it subsidizes Lucasfilm, ILM, THX, LucasArts, Skywalker Sound, the Ranch, etc...
      • Actually, if I remember correctly, it was originally just going to be about #1, restoring the film. But, after they showed a couple previews in a handful of theatres, there was such an overwhelming response that Lucas figured he'd give it a bit of a budget, and make the whole "special edition." *sigh* If only they'd left the Greedo scene alone...
  • Word on the street is that it's just rumors for now. I submitted this story four days ago.

  • from one of the scripts? (Score:5, Funny)

    by zephc ( 225327 ) on Sunday November 17, 2002 @12:20PM (#4691055)
    (Luke is busy working on a piece of machinery)

    Leia: "HI LUKE!!!!!"

    (Luke tumbles from the shock of surprise)

    Luke: "Leia, what do you want? I wish you would leave, because you are so STUUUPID. You are dumb and you are stuuupid."

  • I've got a bad feeling about this...
  • The force is strong w/ this one.

    If anyone can restore the balance, I hope it's him.
  • *sniff... sniff*
    I R is good jedi!
    Take that, silly weasel!
    *sniff... sniff*
  • Have you all checked out the Episode 2 DVD? The animatics are getting so sophisticated that a 3d tv show is definitely possible! (In fact they already have a 'pilot' made by ILM so that also lends credence to a 3d style show.)

    I hope they use the show wisely because it could get a lot necessary events out of the way so Episode 3 can have a more personal feel.

    Plus, it is ALWAYS cool to see things blow up :)

    --Joey

    --Joey
  • This series is produced by Genndy Tartakovsky

    Nooooooooooo! I'm going to be victimized with cheesy anime-like fight scenes:

    Droid
    Droid
    Droid

    Fire
    Fire
    Fire

    Slash
    Slash
    Slash
  • "StarWars Christmas Special"?

    'nuff said!
  • I have a feeling that this cartoon series is related to this news tip (while we're all waiting for episode 3 movie to be completed) from TheForce.Net [theforce.net]'s archive:

    I work in a bookshop in England. Yesterday our friendly Penguin/Dorling Kindersley rep was in and was going through new books for next year. He showed me the cover for Star Wars - The Worlds of Episode II and told me an interesting story.

    Very recently, the head of LucasFilm UK was giving a small presentation to the Penguin Group. She was telling them how Episode III was going to be the biggest thing ever, partly because of it being 'real time'. "You mean, "asked a quizzical rep,"it will only cover 2 hours of Star Wars time?"

    No. What she meant was that when Episode III opens in May 2005, the Clone Wars will be just finishing as the film opens. The Clone Wars last for three years. "So the Clone Wars are happening now," she said. Ergo, Episode III takes place exactly three years after AOTC. Cool huh?

  • "Yeah look what good Ewoks & Droids did for the SW universe ;)"

    I suspect that some of the people who worked on the plot and storylines for both episodes 1 and 2 were some of the very same people who wrote for those two shows.
  • I love animation.

    But it's only as good as the scripting. And because this is a less important project than the big films, perhaps, PERHAPS, a good writer or two will sneak in under the radar and do something which has apparently become of late truly offensive; A good bit of story telling.

    I hope they go for high-end dramatic realism with proper pacing; for all those kids who haven't burned out their attention spans on video games, MTV and E. --The last couple of Harry Potter films, though by no means land-mark works, were still pretty damned good considering. And they were both LONG! --Which just goes to show that slowing things down will not annoy the younger set, and certainly won't annoy the older viewers.

    My recommendation to the studio: "You have an opportunity to make good. Please don't blow it."


    -Fantastic Lad

  • Cartoon Network would have been better off to contract for something set in the New Jedi Order period, where everything has fallen apart, the New Republic has basically collapsed, the Star Wars galaxy is being invaded by a seemingly unstoppable new alien race, major characters in the Star Wars universe are killed, etc., etc.

    Of course, that would be adult anime, not childrens' cartoons which are better suited to the new pre-episode IV world of pablum.

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