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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'."
See that greasy, horse-shaped mark on the concrete? Have at it, mate.
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!
"Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey?"- Peter Gabriel
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.
Maybe it will be filmed like "24".
There is a war going on for your mind.
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 whittle the number of soldiers down to two and have those two guys spend their lives in hiding."
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
"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!"
which is totally what she said
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?
Thomas Galvin
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...
I've got a bad feeling about this.
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.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
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.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
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.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Are there Ponies!!!! involved?
"...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
Um, I guess I don't know much about the follow-on fiction, but I'm wondering, following Episode 6, who THE FUCK would name their kid Anakin?
"Hello Mrs. Smith, this is my son Adolf Stalin Falwell Hitler."
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.