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Lucas Confirms Star Wars spin-off TV series

Posted by timothy on from the more-characters-more-figurines-and-lunchboxes dept.

Mictian writes "In a rare public appearance at the Star Wars Celebration III (his previous fan event appearance was in 1987), George Lucas confirmed that he's working on two TV series. One will be a full 3D animation series (with 30-minute episodes) of the recent Cartoon Network Clone Wars shorts, and the other a live-action series, that will be set in the time between Episodes III and IV, but won't feature the main characters. Production is expected to begin in about a year."

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  1. Where does the line start? by PhatboySlim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Star wars fans, confused and bewildered, have begun huddling around random television sets not sure where they are supposed to be in line at to eagerly anticipate the new t.v. show.

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  2. Re:First the Prequels and now a TV series?! by lazuli42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah yes, who among us does not fondly remember Ewoks, or the Star Wars Holiday Special

    Search your inner child, you know it to be true.

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  3. OMFG by gosand · · Score: 5, Funny
    Rather than all this peripheral shit, why doesn't he crank out the last three movies?

    I have never heard anyone wish that Lucas would make *more* Star Wars movies.

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  4. Not another one! by rjelks · · Score: 5, Funny

    "several dead tauntauns were found in the desert of tatooine, having been beaten to a pulp after dying of starvation."

    I can see it now - CSI: Tatooine.

    Aren't there enough spinoffs already?

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  5. dont worry about the main characters, they'll show by deft · · Score: 5, Funny

    laverne and shirley always had the fonz pop up now and then for ratings... sooner or later vader will jump out and say "ayyyyy" with a big thumbs up.

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  6. I can see it now... by Joel+Rowbottom · · Score: 5, Funny

    [phone rings]

    "George, hi! It's Rick - Rick Berman, you remember Star Trek? Yeah, that one, I sorta invented Star Trek you know... Gene who...? .... Well, we're done with that franchise now... it sorta died out, the demand wasn't there... no... well, y'see, we thought we might be able to do the same for you. Whaddyathink? Couple of spinoff TV series, no original characters... mmhmmm... Brannon reckons we can introduce some of the original characters back later if it doesn't take off... yeah we could do that, tried and tested formula eh... sure, we can meet..."

    *sigh*

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  7. Re:first groan by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."