DarthElizur posted:Yeah it seems like a pretty reasonable thing to expect. I am hearing all kinds of conflicting date information. Maybe they will have an announcement for C4.
The Insider - Issue 91 posted:George Lucas gave a one on one interview with MTV where he discussed, among other things, the future of Lucasfilm, the newest Indiana Jones movie, and both the animated and live-action Star Wars TV series. The upcoming animated series will take place during the Clone Wars and will further chronicle the exploits and friendship of Jedi heroes Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker while depicting epic battles set against a crumbling Republic. However, it will be a radical departure from Genndy Tartakovsky's animated Clone Wars micro-series which came out between Episodes II and III. For starters, episodes will be much longer in length and deeper in narrative depth. According to Steve Sansweet, Director of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm, during his Star Wars presentation at San Diego Comic Con, each episode will essentially be a short animated film. In addition the series will eschew the stylized look of the Tartakovsky series for a sleek, three-dimensional look. "It's that same time period," Lucas said of the upcoming series. "But it's quite a bit more sophisticated, and it's not like anything you've ever seen on television before. [Tartakovsky] used his distinctive 2-D style to do [Clone Wars], but it was [three] minutes at a time, so it was a test-subject.... It worked and everything, but then we knew we were eventually going to do a 3-D animated series." The animated series is scheduled to come out in 2008. "We've got a number of episodes finished now," Lucas added. "It looks really good. It's a lot of fun." Next year Lucas will begin work on a live action Star Wars TV series that will bridge the gap between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, during what Obi-Wan Kenobi called the "dark times" with the Empire exerting it's dominance over the galaxy. George Lucas is closely supervising the show and will oversee an entire season of scripts before going into production. The series will shy away from the saga of the Skywalker family and instead focus on minor characters, such as Rebel and Imperial pilots. The series offers limitless potential for stories that explore the galaxy far, far away that cover long periods of time, and that won't be burdened with continuity limits. "None of the Skywalker story, none of that stuff is in there," Lucas explained. "It's completely different. The animated series has got all the characters in it. The one that comes after, the live-action one, is with people who are in Star Wars, but they're not the main characters." During the interview Lucas looked back at the massive influence Star Wars has had on the popular culture of an entire generation. "It seems to have inspired a lot of people," he said. "But it's just not filmakers. It's astronauts and people who go into business and people who do all kinds of things. Star Wars was really designed to make people think outside the box, to make people use their imagination and think anything is possible. And it does that."
