'Star Wars' headed to TV as weekly series
Thursday, August 4, 2005
At the Siggraph 2005 computer graphics convention in Los Angeles, California Tuesday, Star Wars creator George Lucas unveiled plans for a weekly computer-animated series based on the science fiction saga.
The new show, to be called Clone Wars, will be a 3-D animated spinoff of the series and is to be produced in a Lucas facility in Singapore. Lucas already has done limited-run 2-D traditional animated television with Star Wars: Clone Wars shorts on the U.S. cable channel, Cartoon Network.
Lucas said advances in digital technology allow an animated television series to do what otherwise would be too expensive.
Sources
- Sheigh Crabtree. "Lucas sees new worlds to conquer" — The Hollywood Reporter, August 3, 2005 (free registration required)
- Aaron Ricadela. "Lucas Plans Animated 'Star Wars' TV Show" — InformationWeek, August 2, 2005
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