The first of what will probably be several big announcements at this weekend's Star Wars Celebration IV, Luscasfilm presented the trailer for the new CGI Clone Wars series.
Check out the trailer at the recently redesigned (with lots of cool Flash but kind of slow) StarWars.com: The Clone Wars Trailer.
Honestly I was not real excited about a CGI animation SW show, but this trailer looks interesting. If it were up to me you would have a Star Wars animated series done by the animation team from Cowboy Bebop, but it ain’t up to me.
Here are some details on the show from the Clone Wars Panel at Star Wars Celebration IV.
Lucas is very involved with production – he is mostly focused on the story. He and Winder both work on the scripts with the writers.The episodes will be 22 minutes long, so as a result, there is opportunity for a lot of character development. The tone of the series is based on that of Episode IV – in addition to action, there are also light moments and comedy.
In the new series, there will not be a “Justice League of Jedi” as Filoni puts it – the Jedi can’t do anything more than Luke, Mace, Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan from the films. They can be vulnerable but are intelligent – they need to think themselves out of situations. It will show how war was a challenge for the Jedi to fight, and how the moral principles they clung to began to disintegrate.
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