Unless you’ve been frozen in carbonite for the past few years, you’ve heard about the new Star Wars projects being cooked up by George Lucas. One project is a TV series taking place between Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV A New Hope. The other project is an animated series created in a brand new dynamic CGI style following Episode II Attack of the Clones.
The Clone Wars cartoon project was expected to be a series… turns out it’s a feature film hitting cinemas this summer. So… book the day off from work now.
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Lucas was interviewed recently at StarWars.com about Clone Wars which focuses on the clone troopers, Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu and Obi Wan Kenobi.
It’s obviously a different tone but still has the drama and the characters.The TV series is exactly like the movies, exactly. I mean, you can see it in the clip. It’s basically just the movies only with cartoon characters. It’s basically a dramatic series, there’s a lot of action, a bit of humor. It runs along at the same level. It’s unusual for an animated film, because it’s not really hardcore like say Beowulf and it’s not a Pixar movie, so it kind of falls in between in this funny world where Star Wars is, which is kind of hard-edged but not really, sort of on the verge of PG-13, flips over once in a while, but sort of the high end of PG.
[ George Lucas Talks Star Wars: The Clone Wars ] It also seems to show a little bit more of the clone characters as well.
Yeah, now we get introduced to the clones, which we didn’t get in the movies. Now, they’re like main characters and they really are central to the whole thing, and you can identify them and know who they are, and it’s sort of like “Band of Brothers” only with Jedi. [laughs]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars opens in theaters on August 15.
