Way back when discussions around the two Star Wars TV series started it was suggested that we could expect Star Wars: The Clone Wars by 2008. Well, the weather is becoming cooler and 2008 is looking just about as close as it ever has.
Realizing that the timeline is diminishing, George Lucas has popped up to give the latest update on production and what we can expect from Clone Wars.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
TV Guide has recently posted their second part to a two-part interview with Lucas and they have finally come to discussing The Clone Wars:
TV Guide: Can we talk about the two Star Wars television series you're working on...? George Lucas: There's Clone Wars, and we're in the middle of that.
TV Guide: Tell us about it. Lucas: Well it's basically like Star Wars [in that it] takes place between, obviously, [the films] Episode II [Attack of the Clones] and Episode III [Revenge of the Sith], but it's the same kind of action. Unfortunately, it doesn't fall into the realm of what animation [typically] is, which is either adult, kind of off-color humor or kiddie stuff. This is, like Star Wars, sort of in between those two things. It's a lot of battle stuff, and it's obviously the Clone Wars, so it's a war picture. So it's kind of a PG-13 animated TV series, which is something that has never been done before and obviously doesn't fit in any of the conventional slots that these things fall into. In that, it's very different, and I think it's very exciting. It's got a very, very sophisticated look to it. It's very much like the features. We're still trying to figure out how to put it on the air.
Lucas goes on to mention that forty of the hundred episodes are now complete. For those of you who remember Lucas promising 100 episodes in the series, don't fret, as the show will begin to air once they complete episode number fifty or sixty; the rest of the episodes will be complete before they are needed. Lucas himself hopes that The Clone Wars will begin assaulting television screens by next fall -- giving us a year.
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