Star Wars Animated Sitcom

[ThirdMarioBro]

It’s a cultural force that has been the butt of countless parodies, Internet videos like the Star Wars kid and even hilarious YouTube reviews that are as long as the actual films they are denigrating. In some ways, it only makes sense that the creator and its parent company would get in on the act.

Lucasfilm announced Wednesday that a Star Wars-based animated sitcom is in the works.

Canadian Jennifer Hill, an Emmy and Gemini-award-winning producer for The Backyardigans, will produce the series, while Todd Grimes (Back at the Barnyard) will direct. Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich will act as creative consultants, and Brendan Hay, an alum of The Daily Show, has been tapped as one of the writers.

“The Star Wars universe is so dense and rich; it’s crazy to think that there aren’t normal, mundane everyday problems in a world so well-defined,” said Green, whose Robot Chicken animated TV series has already sent up Star Wars in two episodes. “And it’s even crazier to think of what those problems might be, since it’s all set in a galaxy far, far away. What do these characters do when they’re not overthrowing empires?”

Lucasfilm promises a “playful” and “irreverent” tone, although its news release did not indicate what age or demographic the series will target, or when or where it might air.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle7089343.ece

Family Guy's parodies were funny, and Robot Chicken's were epic, but this? Am I the only one who thinks Star Wars has finally reached the tipping point? Arthur Fonzarelli called. He wants his water skis back.

[Raph's Girl]

Oof... so there really IS gonna be a sitcom?! Bloody frak. I've been hearing rumours about this for a couple days thinking people were joking and out of their frelling minds.

George Lucas has completly gone bonkers!

I wonder if this is what happened to the rumours about the Star Wars Babies type show. Especially since the producer of the Backyardigans (a rather extremely kiddy show) is involved?

[Newton Gimmick]

Yup, it's real. I covered this on Tuesday. I too wonder how many more jokes can be mined from Star Wars. I mean, outside of the main 20 or so characters I think the jokes won't appeal to the masses unless they aren't really Star Wars jokes, but regular sitcoms jokes performed by Star Wars characters... To which I wonder what the point of making it Star Wars is. http://www.infinitehollywood.com/201...on-series.html

[Candy Kappa]

wow...
guess it'll be okay, I mean it can't be canon to the story, just some random funnies in a sitcom style