LucasFilm Cancels Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Delays Star Wars: Detours
Somewhere, the ghostly hologram projection of Obi-Wan Kenobi just stopped in his tracks and started sobbing. After five seasons, LucasFilm has decided to stop production on Cartoon Network's animated series set in George Lucas's imagination. The news was announced on StarWars.com today.
"After five highly successful and critically acclaimed seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, we feel the time has come to wind down the series. While the studio is no longer producing new episodes for Cartoon Network, we're continuing production on new Clone Wars story arcs that promise to be some of the most thrilling adventures ever seen. Stay tuned for more information on where fans can soon find this bonus content."
Yeesh. The StarWars.com site has a video from The Clone Wars' supervising director Dave Filoni explaining the situation, and while he's bummed about wrapping up the series, he's excited for the future of the Star Wars franchise and LucasFilm Animation's involvement in it, whatever that may be.
LucasFilm has also indefinitely postponed the future series Star Wars: Detours, from the Robot Chicken team. Apparently the company doesn't want to launch a new Star Wars franchise before the recently announced new trilogy of movies.
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If you watched that video,that has link to it(click "has a video") and you will see,who canceled it.
Dave Filloni says,that order came from up above(Disney),that all has to stop for the moment and focus on new trilogy.
Personally I would love to see the Old Republic come to live on the big screen. When I was younger, I really loved the stories of the great Sith War including Exar Kun, the brothers Cay and Ulic Qel-Droma and Nomi Sunrider, the saga building the historic background of the fantastic video-games "Knights of the Old Republic" I & II.
"Turner Entertainment’s Cartoon Network only had the license for Clone Wars through the end of the 2012-13 season. Renewals had been done year by year. While Turner is believed to have wanted to continue, it is clear Disney has another vision for the Star Wars spinoffs."
"As we enter into an exciting new era focused on the next Star Wars trilogy, Lucasfilm has decided to pursue a new direction in animated programming. We are exploring a whole new Star Wars series set in a time period previously untouched in Star Wars films or television programming. You can expect more details in the months to come."
Um... lemme guess. The Disney Channel. Duh.
Ahsoka was at best 16/17 years old in the Clone Wars. There is about 20-25 years between the Clone Wars/Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope/Jedi, add another 20-25 years between Jedi and Episode VII and Ahsoka would only be in her late 60s at most! Plus we have no idea how her species age so her race could have a longer lifespan which guarantees we see her as a major character throughout the next three movies!
I recall reading somewhere the main protagonist would be a female. Everyone expects a Skywalker/Organa-Solo offspring but is that really the way it will happen? The force isn't a Skywalker exclusive and to limit this re-emerging franchise specifically to that family line seems short sighted and narrow minded. I think we will see many other new Jedi but Ahsoka is going to be our main girl and I am VERY excited about this! We could even have an Force Ghost Anakin and Ahsoka reunion which would be an interesting conversation to see unfold since they most likely had their goodbyes at the end of season five of the clone wars. I can totally picture Ahsoka placing her hand to (and through) the sad ghost face of Anakin when they catch up on what happened to him and Padme. I would imagine that she would blame herself for being too proud and stubborn to stick around and maybe saving Anakin from his fall from grace! If done right this could be EPIC!
But a seventh film absolutely must have Luke, however it could be hard to get Mark Hamill interested in it now. He's somewhat turned off Star Wars in the past decade.
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I suppose you just started watching young justice a couple of weeks ago as well.. yeah you did.. you should really get rid of that t.v., your causing mayhem and you don't even know it!..
{Sarcasm... Sarcasm everywhere in this post}
This one, I did watch at start but I didn't get into it. This season was the first season I follow from episode 1st to the end. And it ends.
And don't worry I haven't start watching Young Justice - regularly, only once in a while. I am planning to watch all of it at once.
Detours should be tossed out an airlock, that looked so awful. The comedy looked hamstrung by the kid-friendly format, and the look was just horrendous. No big loss there.
And we have the announcement of a new series coming, seems like most media outlets are overlooking that and the "not fully canceled yet" aspect.
There is no remaining season 5 content. They aired the Season 5 finale the week before last.
It's a shame that some animated shows are marketed at kids and don't appeal to the 18-49 demographic since many of them have much better writing/storytelling than the stuff that survives in network prime time.
By that logic, the sluggish sales of Young Justice toys probably contributed to things as well.
I wonder what the actual production cost of an episodes of GL or YJ is.
I wonder if GL automatically is difficult to market by virtue of the heroes all dressing alike, I know I got sick of seeing that in the movie line (but I didn't see the movie or care for its product line in any way).
As for Clone Wars, Hasbro's been struggling at market with it, but I suspect the slow sales weren't a major factor in this situation compared to the new ownership of Lucasfilm.
GL might be difficult to market for that reason. Plus the whole Interceptor space-jet is a blatant toy vehicle grab.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Sorry but that's not the case as the quote in your piece goes on to say.
Sure, they won't be on the Cartoon Network but the clear implication is that a final series will be produced and shown somewhere whether that's a Disney channel or online.
I think you're jumping the gun just a little bit.
Given how their own post frames the idea of future arcs as "bonus content," I'm not even sure they'll air on a Disney-owned channel. I'm guessing a direct-to-video release, either as bonus episodes for the Season 5 set, or a "Lost Episodes" sort of boxed set.
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There's only so much that can reasonably happen in a three- or four-year span of time, even in a galaxy far, far away. The last episode provided a kinda-depressing-but-fitting ending for the one main character whose fate was unknown to us, since we already know what happens to most of the others from the third prequel film. Trying to stretch the series out, even for just one more season, would have broken my suspension of disbelief.
And it was already pretty stretched.