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Animated Star Wars on Cartoon Network

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. This has been done a long time ago by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Interesting

    See telnet://blinkenlights.nl

  2. Animated Trek by Crixus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The animated Trek series of the 70's didn't last long, but there were a few decent stories among the lot.

    Rich...

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    Ignore Alien Orders
  3. Re:Additions to, complications of "the canon"? by NoodleSlayer · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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

  4. Now, the question... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... 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)???

  5. My Grudge with Harry... by BTWR · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The thing that pisses me off about Harry Knowles is his elitism, which is twofold. First off, he seems like a real nice guy who feels very fortunate about his fame, but some stuff about him just piss me off so much. Harry is a film geek in every stereotypical way possible. This is not a bad thing necessarily, but just pisses me off that he should be SO stereotypical. He loves all the movies a movie geek "should" love (from Night of the Living Dead to the new must-love-if-you're-a-geek films like Pitch Black, Robocop and Princess Monanoke). Occationally, he tries to make himself look good by posting a negative review of some marginally-accepted good film (Like Signs or something) - but coincidentally, he NEVER says something like "I hates Superman, Rocky, Matrix" etc. Just seems so shallow that he loves every movie you're supposed to love and sometimes bashes movies that are too cliche to love. The Newsweek article had him stating his favorite movies. They were all obscure 1930's horror movies that no one knew and just made him sound so intelligent. On Aint-it-cool, whenever some correographer on Hong Kong martial arts movies from the 1960's dies, he cries about how a "Legend has left us" - once again dropping how intelligent he is that he knows the impact that one person had on the entire industry.

    Second, WILL HE STOP IT WITH THE NAMEDROPPING??? Honestly, I used to think it was just a matter of jealousy on the aicn users part that they hated when he'd mention Robert Rodriguez as a friend. Now, however, he states in every article almost how some director called him personally, or how scared the industry is of him. Ugh. So annoying.

    However, the ultimate reason why I don't visit AICN anymore has nothing to do with Harry at all.

    a) His forums are not threaded. When a major forum with 1000 posts comes, it's impossible to have a CONVERSATION (the responses are 100 posts apart)and it's impossible to read any of the posts towards the bottom.

    b) The forum posters piss me off more than anything. These people do NOT know how to enjoy something. AICN forums are simply mediums to pick apart every film's most microscopic (and even if non-existing) flaws and state such claims that Spiderman with organic web shooters "robs my childhood" - THOSE are the guys I want to take a bat to (which is why I LOVED the end of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back!(

    Geeks don't bother me (hense, I'm on Slashdot), but assholes do.