New Star Wars Shows!
 

Awesome. I hope its as good as clone wars was, if not better. Finally we get a 30 min. Star Wars series.

3d animation? What was good about Clone Wars was the simplicity, this might be going too far...

Lucas is an ass. He should have stuck with the Clone Wars style. It ruled. I don't want a 3d Star Wars show. Bastard.

I'm more excited about the live action show. Good to see it was finally confirmed.

Clone Wars is so great. I don't see why they should change the style...

They have to screw it up, other wise it wouldn't be Lucasarts.

3D animated shows, look odd most of the time.I prefer the Clone Wars, style myself.

Exactly, Lucas sucks! He's only directed one good movie but everyone thinks he is the greatest but he simply sucks! Clone Wars was perfect.

Yeah, I enjoyed Clone Wars as well. But I guess he wanted to end it at 3 seasons...ya know, keep with that "trilogy" thing.

CGI television animation has it's ups and downs. Beast Wars looked great, but that's because it was full of robots. Mtv's Spider-Man looked pretty good, too. A shame the writing and trashy celebrity cameos brought the whole thing down.

But this is Star Wars, I'm certain the show will have a mssive budget and the latest in CGI technology so it won't look like...oh...Dragonbooster or Action Man (yech).

I'll see it before I condemn it. If I had a choice in animation studios, I'd have gone with Dong Woo. I want them to animated everything.

Yes, bash the person who GAVE you Star Wars, in terms of story, characters, effects, and yeah...even SPIN-OFFS. :roll:

The hypocrisy of Lucas haters fascinates me...

And that was what? American Graffiti or THX-1138?

A New Hope?

Exactly! But to be honest I have never seen American Graffiti but I saw enough of THX to not be impressed.

Oh man, that does sound somehow... lame. I mean, every other big cartoon-related event has to be CGI these days. I mean, they look nice, but I can relate more to drawn figures and not those "moving action figures".

And I loved Clone Wars, it was such a fine piece of art. And with Genndy Tartakovski nothing goes wrong.

American Graffiti is about my home town. We have a statue dedicated to that movie actually.

Exactly! Genndy makes some awesome stuff, and I thought Clone Wars was a perfect Star Wars cartoon,

[Note: This is sarcastic]
but of course, Lucas has to destroy everything Star Wars fans love about the franchise. I mean...I love Lucas for creating Star Wars, but he just seems to try and mess stuff up sometimes. Han shot first damn you! [end of sarcastic remarks]

Edit: Added a sarcastic remark tab for all those who can't see it. I should have made it more obvious.

So just download the original, untampered trilogy, stop complaining, for every fan that hated the changes, there are enough people that don't even bother wasting thier time bashing a guy who gave you the very franchise you pay money to watch.

It's HIS movies, he can do whatever the hell he wants with them, Han was'nt supposed to shoot first, but it's been built up into such a defining anti-hero moment it's gained considerable prestige amongst fans who really think they know better, sorry, but that reasoning just comes as blatantly assanine.

By Luca's own admission, the films were'nt what he wanted them to look like, respect the changes he's made, download bootlegs and leave him alone.

I wasn't actually making a deal of the Han shot first thing. I actually don't mind it either way. I was more or less poking fun at the people who constantly complain about it. I prefer the current versions over the old ones anyways.

I enjoy the originals over the special editions. It's just so ghetto, and I love it. And in the originals, if I recall, Han was the only one to shoot. That was sweet.

Star Wars tv series news
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ovies_eo/16417

Got the Boba Fett blues now that George Lucas has wrapped his final Star Wars movie installment?

Fret not, Force faithful, there is a new hope.

Jedi master George turned up over the weekend at Celebration III, a mega-gathering of 30,000 Star Wars geeks in Indianapolis, where he announced plans to move his space opera to the small screen.

For his first appearance at a Star Wars convention in 17 years, Lucas made a big splash. During a Q&A session, he announced that he is going to produce a 3-D animated action series expanding on the Cartoon Network's Emmy-winning Clone Wars. Then he dropped a bigger bomb, confirming a live-action Star Wars spinoff series is in the works.

Does that mean we'll get to see Darth Vader duking it out with the Donald on the next Apprentice?

Not quite.

According to Lucas, both shows will take place during the period between the end of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith and the original Star Wars (aka Episode IV--A New Hope), when the Emperor became all-powerful and started hunting the Jedi down.

Lucas said the live-action series is the more ambitious undertaking, attempting to translate the magic of the Star Wars universe to the small screen via supporting characters that fans have only briefly come to know from the movies. The filmmaker added that the show will also be similar in tone to the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the TV adventures inspired by his other mega-franchise.

"We're probably not going to start that for about a year," Lucas said. "Like on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, we want to write all the stories for the entire first season all at once. I'm going to get it started and hire the showrunners and all of that, then I'll probably step away."

It is not known whether the two TV projects were the basis of a highly publicized Internet rumor a few months back speculating on future Star Wars adventures.

Lucasfilm has yet to make an official announcement on the new shows. The company doesn't even have a deal in place with a network to air either series because it's been marshalling all its minions for the hugely anticipated May 19 release of Revenge of the Sith, the final prequel.

This isn't the first occasion Lucas has packaged Star Wars for the boob tube. First, there was the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978, which Lucas has disowned. Then, after 1983's Return of the Jedi, he hatched two made-for-TV spinoffs, 1984's The Ewok Adventure and 1985's Ewoks: Battle for Endor, both of which were largely derided by Star Wars fans for focusing on the relatively tame deeds of the furry critters at the expense of action-packed escapades of cooler characters.

Lucas' infatuation with Ewoks continued with the Ewoks cartoon series, which was paired with another kiddie-themed 'toon, Droids, focusing on the mishaps of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Those shows ran from 1985 to '87.

It's expected that the new standalone animated series will showcase the same kind of epic battles as seen in the more action-oriented Clone Wars series of shorts--with the added benefit of adding potential new Star Wars enthusiasts and giving merchandisers the chance to sell even more action figures.

In some related Star Wars news, premiere fan site TheForce.net quotes Lucas telling people backstage at last weekend's confab that he's prepping yet another box set--this one will include all six films, plus a possible seventh disc featuring deleted scenes from the original trilogy. He says he doesn't expect to make any more tweaks to the films as he did with the last box set.

And lest you think you've seen the last of Darth and the gang on the big screen, think again. Lucas appeared at last month's ShoWest exhibitors convention in Las Vegas and announced that, starting in 2007, he'll rerelease all six episodes, beginning with the original Star Wars, in IMAX digital 3-D.

Let's hope the Force will be with him.

The animated series that they are gonna work on is a 30 minute per episode of the Clone Wars, But done with CGI, I look forward to that, I think the Clone Wars will translate really well using CGI. :)

How can Clone Wars translate really good to CGI when it looked amazing with its simplicity? They aren't going to rehash it.

The live action show, is it still gonna involve the Jedi Acadamy, with characters like Raynar Thul?

Original SW in Imax Awesome. It's Probably gonna be that special edition but what the hell

It will be the "special edition" since the original 1977 version pretty much does not exist in the mind of Lucas. And I'm not complaining.

There's only one thing I wish Lucas never would have put into the Special Editions. That god damn song in ROTJ.

Edit: Didn't know where else to put this. Kevin Smith reviewed ROTS.
http://viewaskew.com/news/sith/

We'll all watch, I garuntee it. You know why?

Because everyone loves to gawk at a ****ing train wreck.

What song? If you mean that fu*king song in Jabba's palace, then ditto. That needs to rot in hell.


Let me state this. All Star Wars animation and TV stuff (Holiday Special *shudder*) is evil before Clone Wars. Clone Wars was godly.

I don't trust these new series. I'll hope for the best, but Star Wars and TV ain't got a good history together. *sigh*

Not true, does no one remember the episode of the muppet show in which the main characters of Star Wars had a cameo?! Even Chewie was there! :lol:

Droids was also a great show, it had mini-story arcs where Threepio and R2 would siwtich owners after five or six episodes, Ewoks however, was a lot more self-contained, generic, but pretty pleasant to watch, and lasted longer in syndication....Paul Dini eventually wrote an episode (the finale) featuring The Empire, the only time they appeared in that show in any capacity

I enjoyed Droids a lot more than Ewoks, since it dealt with more of the Star Wars universe than Ewoks. I seem to remember Boba Fett being in an episode or two. He was in a speeder race on Tatooine. His helmet was all blue for some reason. :-?

exactly what I was thinking

The live action series will take place between Episode 3 and 4, And it will revolve around one of the characters from the movies, But not a main character, So they will spinoff with this character, For the Clone Wars animated series, Doing it as CGI would lower the cost when doing the animation, Think about it, Traditional animation takes months to complete cause it's all hand drawn, CGI is much easier to make cause you have things like motion capture, Which makes it easier to animate the characters, As well as be able to create action scenes that be impossible to make as traditional animation.

Huh...Cuz i thought Motion-capture actually was used to create realistic Movement and i would think it would restrict the action if they went with Motion capture

Star Wars TV Series News
 

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/i...ory=0&id=31067

George Lucas has reportedly checked on the availability of Australian actor Matthew Newton to see if he's free to appear in a proposed Star Wars television series, according to the Oz Sunday Herald Sun newspaper. Lucas first met Newton a few years ago when the actor (Queen of the Damned) tested for the role of Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones, the newspaper reported.

It's believed that Newton was Lucas' second choice for the part of the man who would become Darth Vader; he was even flown to stay at Skywalker Ranch in Northern California for a test.

Blonde-haired newton Newton, 28, is no doubt being considered for a leading hero role in the series, believed to be centering on all-new characters, the paper reported.

If anything, I would like to see a Clone Wars Style 2D-animated Bridge between Episode 3 and 4, sure it'll be alot less action but seeing the empire sink its claws into every planet and Anakin fully becoming vader and such

Im sorry but i could care less about jedi like Kit Fisto

Lucas has already said that the show won't be about any major characters from the movies.

The Clone Wars show will. I think he only means the live action show.