The last week brought rumors that the first three episodes of the new Star Wars cartoon, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (changed from the original title of Star Wars: One Born Every Minute), would debut in British movie theaters before heading to the telly. Now Variety is reporting that United Statesers can expect the same, with Star Wars: The Clone Wars hitting theaters on August 15th.
What’s really historic about this is that Clone Wars will be the first Star Wars theatrical release that isn’t distributed by Fox. Warner Bros will be putting it out, and the series will then air on the Cartoon Network and TNT.
Clone Wars will take place between Episodes II and III, before Anakin Skywalker became a husky voiced black man. The only voices returning from the films will be Anthony Daniels as C3PO (“Please Artoo, anything to keep me away from a weekend signing photos at Cleveland CosmicCon!”) and Matthew Wood as General Grevious and the battledroids. I call foul: I will not accept a new voice as iconic Star Wars character Captain Panaka!
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They already have a cartoon series set during that time, and it's much better than any of the prequels.
Here's actual footage of it. Looks to be in the same tradition as the animated features we got, which is only a plus in my book:
http://www.starwars.com/video/view/623.html
You know things have gotten bad when I saw the article title and sighed in despair before even reading it.
I guess Lucas finally has his wish. No more frigin actors messing things up with acting.
Wow…Anakin really looks like a Thunderbird.
Would this also be the first theatrical Star Wars movie that wasn't directed by Lucas?
Lucas did not direct Empire or Jedi.
Thanks for that link, Hare. That Lucas Animation guy in the Robert Rodriguez get-up really had to tapdance his way around saying, "The prequels sucked, these will be better." Otherwise, I was strangely impressed by the preview.
A new hope?
Wasn't this done in 2003 on the cartoon network? Like 16 episodes or something? Or is this something new, with a new storyline?
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