Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show on 8/15

[thatguy]

From Slashdot:

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Animated Film Set To Kick Off Star Wars TV Show

Star Wars Prequels Movies Television

Sasseen writes "George Lucas has announced that the animated Star Wars television show, which we've discussed previously, will be kicking off with a feature-length theatre release. Lucas felt that, 'there were a lot more 'Star Wars' stories left to tell. I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the animation forward.' A fully animated film will be released in theaters on August 15 with a TV series of more than 30 episodes planned to follow on Cartoon Network and TNT. Also of note from the article, 'A new character named Ahsoka, Anakin's padawan, will be the first female Jedi to be a character of focus'."

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[The Queen]

If Hayden Christensen is in, I'm out.

[Drunk Monk]

A spin on Ashoka perhaps? The great Indian Buddhist King? Shahrukh Khan played him in a great Bollywood flick, Asoka.

[thatguy]

But you can see it here:

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[Drunk Monk]

Clone Wars: Season 7 E1.

Meh.  

I was never that into Clone Wars.  It's just blaster fights, with the occasional lightsaber fights, which you'd think might be amusing but I just don't care about clone lives.  Characters from E1, 2 & 3 appear, mostly the Jedi, but it still doesn't satisfy.  The only arcs of interest are Ashoka and Maul, and even though they're teased heavily in the trailer above, they don't appear in S7e1. There's a new batch of Clones, a bad batch, but they weren't very engaging.  I don't think I'll be tuning into this very much.  Maybe I'll check in when the Ashoka/Maul storylines kick into gear.