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  • Lucas to spin off two TV series around ‘Star Wars’

    Lucas to spin off two TV series around ‘Star Wars’

    MUMBAI: Even as the concluding part of the Star Wars saga – Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith – is set to release internationally on 19 May, its creator George Lucas has announced plans to make two television series based on his blockbuster movies.

    The first would be a live-action show featuring some of the minor Star Wars characters, which Lucas would direct himself. The second show will be a 3-D animated series, which follows the success of the existing animated series Clone Wars series (that airs on Cartoon Network).

    The live-action series will cover the period between the end of Episode III and the beginning of Episode IV (which was released in 1977). On the other hand, while presently, Clone Wars is seen in brief, five minute episodes; Lucas said that he intended to make them into 30- minute shows which would make the show a “3-D animated version full-series.”

    He announced this at the Star Wars convention in Indiana held last Saturday that was attended by more than 30,000 science-fiction fans from around the world.

    However, he also said that the series were not likely to arrive for at least a year and that the story would not focus on the characters in the movies, but would pick up on other stories from the Star Wars universe.

    Lucas told fans that the TV series would pick up the story following Revenge of the Sith, which deals with the destruction of the Jedi Knights and the emergence of Darth Vader, and fill in the gap between that and the first Star Wars movie that takes place 20 years later.

    Lucas had already announced that he would not be making any more movies.

  • Cartoon Network to hook viewers with ‘Star Wars’

    Cartoon Network to hook viewers with ‘Star Wars’

    MUMBAI: The latest in Cartoon Network’s new slew of programme initiatives comes from Star Wars creator George Lucas. Star Wars: Clone Wars an epic micro-series consisting of 20 animated shorts, will air on the channel from 10 November. The first 10 chapters will debut weekdays at 5 pm. The next 10 episodes will next year.
     

    The show continues from where the blockbuster film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones left off. At the beginning of the Clone Wars, an epic civil war pits the old Republic against a vast separatist movement led by the forces of evil.

    Clone Wars is being produced at Cartoon Network Studios by a team led by Genndy Tartakovsky. He was the brains behind the popular Samurai Jack and Dexters Laboratory. Each episodic short will be approximately three-minutes in length.

    Meanwhile on 15 November chapters 1-5 will be telecast in order, interspersed throughout that afternoons programming, from 12:50 pm. This will repeat on 16 November from 2 pm. As Clone Wars unfolds, the valiant Jedi Knights lead the Republics Clone Army against both familiar and new adversaries across the galaxy. These new characters, epic battles and intricate stories aim at adding a new dimension to the Star Wars saga.

    Tartakovsky added, “It certainly fulfills one of my dreams to work on a project like Star Wars that is so thoroughly established it has become a part of our culture. It is an awesome assignment and Im really honoured to be a contributor to the Star Wars legacy.”

    Lucas Licensing president Howard Roffman said, “Genndy Tartakovsky and the team at Cartoon Network are tops in their field. Their work on Samurai Jack shows that they can tell an epic story in a unique way, lavishing equal attention on dramatic battle scenes as well as the dramatic development of the characters.”