On Mar 14, 10:55=A0pm, "Kevin" <webm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > By Josh Grossberg
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> > Los Angeles (E! Online) - The Jedi Master hit Sin City to send the
> > latest Star Wars hype into hyperdrive.
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> > George Lucas made a surprise appearance Thursday at ShoWest, the
> > annual movie exhibitors' confab going on this week in Las Vegas, to
> > plug the upcoming computer-animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
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> > The 'toon, which unspools Aug. 15, chronicles the intergalactic
> > adventures of A****in Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and a host of familiar
> > and new additions to the Star Wars rogue's gallery, battling each
> > other in the Clones Wars, the epic events taking place in the period
> > between Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars:
> > Episode III--Revenge of the Sith.
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> > Clone Wars will also serve as the kickoff to a live-action TV series
> > of the same name, which is set to debut on TNT and the Cartoon Network
> > in the fall.
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> > "I think it can live up to the live-action movies," Lucas said before
> > screening a five-minute clip of the highly stylized animation for
> > theater owners at the Paris Hotel. (Of course, Phantom Menace didn't
> > exactly raise the bar.)
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> > Lucas added that all the major characters from the prequel trilogy
> > will be present and accounted for--from Yoda and the Emperor to Mace
> > Windu and Boba Fett (though they won't be voiced by the film actors).
> > Among the newbies: A****in's young apprentice, a female Jedi by the
> > name of Ahsoki.
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> > For the 63-year-old filmmaker, plunging into a new Star Wars adventure
> > after spending the past eight years making fans happy (or not,
> > depending on whom you ask) by making his long-promised prequels was a
> > pleasant surprise.
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> > "You've got the whole assembly line built, and then you say, 'Hey, we
> > can make up something,' " Lucas told the Associated Press. "It was
> > like old-time moviemaking. What I love about television, it's like
> > Monogram Pictures or the old studio system, where a couple of guys
> > come to work, and they sit and have some coffee and go, 'Why don't we
> > make a movie about such and such? Okay, fine.' And at the end of the
> > day, it's pretty much on its way."
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> > The Star Wars mastermind likened Clone Wars to "Band of Brothers in
> > space, with Jedi."
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> > "You can tell lots of stories. They come up all the time," he said.
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> > As for his planned live-action Star Wars TV series, Lucas has said
> > relatively little, except to confirm that it will take place during
> > the years between Sith, which ended with Darth Vader's rise to power
> > and the first Star Wars film, A New Hope, when the rebels are on the
> > run from the Empire. The live-action show will not, however, focus on
> > the Skywalker clan, instead introducing new characters to the Star
> > Wars universe.
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> > Lucas is also supervising all scripts for both series, since they are
> > considered part of the official canon and must adhere to the existing
> > mythology.
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> > After all, those fanboys and girls can be awfully picky. We know.
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>http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20080314/en_movies_eo/211362d324f4_4d...
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> There is a serious possibility that what happened to the "Star Trek"
> franchise at Paramount, could happen to the "Star Wars" franchise of
Lucas=
> Films and 20th Century Fox. =A0Paramount has basically destroyed the one
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> that made them billions of dollars when they needed it.
And even if it was a 20th Century Fox release Lucas financedthe last 3
films himself and will probably do the same with these new projects,
the studio really can't lose much on the projects.
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