Star Wars Animated Series

[Robimus]

So rumor has become true. George Lucas has decided to launch his animated Star Wars Animated Series in theatres August 15th this summer!
I'm happy to see anything Star Wars on the big screen though I'm guessing some people might not be interested at all. Lucas has even hinted that if this series is a big success he might do more Animated shows of this nature, even possibly a Knights of the Old Republic type series .
The series will be again set during the Clone Wars and feature Anakin, Obi-Wan, Grevious, Yoda and the gang. The series is also set to introduce a new female Jedi who will be a main character in the story......Its about time!
Also on a rumor note both Samuel L. Jackson and Hayden Christensen have said they would love to provide the voice work for their characters in the series, which would be so awesome!!! I love Samuel L. and really am hoping he'll be cast in TFTM2 .
So for anybody out there who loves Star Wars, the Force will be back on the big screen August 15th!

[Team Jetfire]

I for one am looking forward to it and I'm am glad to see that there may be a new spin on it (with the femaile jedi)

Hopefull this will lead to more of these spin off features, as lucas needs to come up with some (better) ways to keep Star Wars alive.

I know that I will be there with my Son to no doubt enjy the film.

[Optimus_Prime]

I'm might go to see it, but I don't think it would be a hit. I find it strange to premiere a show on the big screen, and then have a series.

[CobraCommander]

Looks interesting, more Grevious is good with me.

[Robimus]

Here's a link to the two trailers released thus far.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809991325/video/8273357

The voices for Mace and Dooku sound so close I'm actually wondering if the rumors of using the actual actors for some of the voices were true. I can't wait.

[Sokar]

This film looks great to me for two reasons in particular.

1.) With the entire film being CG, the CG won't stand out like it has in every CG enhanced SW film. Obove all that was my major issue with the re-edited orginal saga, and one of the bigger problems with episodes 1-3

2.) Asaj Ventres appears to be a major character in this film. She was probably my favorite character in the clone wars shorts, and I'm glad to see that they will likely be fleshing out her character a bit more. Similarly they will hopefully give dooku more of a background

[Robimus]

Just a wee update. Samuel L.Jackson, Christopher Lee and Anthony Daniels are confirmed as voice talent for the series/film. Looks like they will be the only "returning" voices though, so no Hayden, no Frank Oz

[devilsknight]

It looks good. But not nearly as good as the Clone Wars series that was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky of Samurai Jack fame.

Those two DVD's a pure gold.

Hopefully this will do ok...anyone notice the female Jedi/Sith sounds like it was voiced by the same female Sith from the other animated Clone Wars series ?

[soundwaveCA]

Looks interesting, I'm pretty sure it will at least be decent and I'm sure I'll enjoy it being the sucker for SW that I am. I just with they would move on from the Clone Wars era though and focus on other aspects of the SW mytho's like a KOTOR or post ROTJ era's. That and go to a more traditional style of animation as I must say I'm not a huge fan of this style though it is tolerable.

[Robimus]

Originally Posted by Soundwave.ca

Looks interesting, I'm pretty sure it will at least be decent and I'm sure I'll enjoy it being the sucker for SW that I am. I just with they would move on from the Clone Wars era though and focus on other aspects of the SW mytho's like a KOTOR or post ROTJ era's. That and go to a more traditional style of animation as I must say I'm not a huge fan of this style though it is tolerable.

They apparently used the Thunderbirds stop motion stuff as inspiration for the look.

And George Lucas had suggested that if this works out good we might be seeing other Era's in the future. Lucasfilm opened up a whole animation studio with this being the launch project. I'd love to see either the Zahn Novels, KOTOR or even Legacy get this type of treatment.