Template:CUSWFN/I/The Return of the Clone Wars

{| border=0 colspan=0 colspacing=0 class="toccolours" style="margin: 1em auto;text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:100%;" The Completeley Unofficial SWFanon Newsletter The Unofficial Newsletter of SWFanon June 17th, 2007    "The Return of the Clone Wars" A review on the upcoming 3-D Clone Wars series.  Written by Xepeyon T hat's right. It appears Lucasfilm is producing another Star Wars: Clone Wars series, this time in a 3D styled format. It's announcement was first heard in the Star Wars Celebration III of April 2005, where Geroge Lucas leaked: "you know we are working on a 3-D continuation of the pilot series that was on the Cartoon Network, we probably won't start that project for another year". Though not much of it's actual content was revealed. Something I'm sure will be a surprise to us all is that George Lucas has stated that there will be "episodes with nothing but Clone Troopers" and an "episode just about Kit Fisto". So yes, there will be an episode that focuses on our favorite Nautolan Jedi Master, Kit Fisto. Hopefully this time, he'll have a line, instead of just smiling like he did in the Battle of Mon Calamari episode. Unlike the first three 2-D series, this one is said to span the entire Clone Wars time period. The series will be set late during the Clone Wars after Anakin Skywalker has achieved the rank of Jedi Knight. Twenty-six episodes are currently in production, which will comprise the first season. Each episode will last around twenty-two minutes. The title of the eleventh episode was, for some weird reason, leaked. It is currently called "Destroy Malevolence". You think they'd go scavenging for the first episode's title, wouldn't you? Oh well.
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As for the casting roles, for the most part, they're keeping to the original Clone Wars' voice actors. Mat Lucas as Anakin Skywalker is coming back, as is Grey DeLisle who voiced Asajj Ventress, and Corey Burton who voiced Count Dooku. On a more anticipating note, they are getting "The Real McCoys" to do some of the voices, including (but not limited to) Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Frank Oz as Yoda, and Matthew Wood as General Grievous.

As of July 15, 2005, preproduction had officially begun on the series, according to head of Lucasfilm fan relations, Steve Sansweet. On July 21st, 2006, at Comic-Con, Sansweet also confirmed that the show was already in production, and that footage will be shown at Celebration IV. On February 15th of '06, Sansweet revealed in an interview that:


 * On release dates and production: "We're doing it in two phases. The first is Star Wars animation, which is CG 3-dimensional animation, like a Toy Story, that takes place during the period of the Clone Wars that takes place between Episodes 2 and 3. And that we're setting for Fall of 2007. Preproduction is underway, we're doing animation test, people are working on initial scripts. So we're well under way on that. And George is very much taking hand and is very much part of the whole process. I know some people thought maybe he would just say, 'hey, go do it,' but George is Star Wars and he's always gonna be very closely involved in this."


 * On villains: "I think it's possible that we're going to see villains that we already know, like Grievous. I think it's way to early to speculate what's going to happen in the TV show. I think George has an idea of what he wants to do, where he wants to go with it, what kinds of characters he wants in it, but that's something...he's working on the animation right now...that he'll explore later."

On May 25 of '07, the first trailer for the series was released. Music was a great compliment to the scenes, and I'm even more excited about it then before. I admit I had my doubts about a 3D Star Wars series, but now I'm really looking forward to it. You can watch it Here -->.

At George Lucas' March 3 appearance at the 2007 William S. Paley Television Festival, George reveal to fans that there will be a new Togruta Padawan character named Asoka. According to Lucas "There’s a new character called Asoka, who’s a young girl, Padawan learner. It’s her first assignment, she’s very young…She’s a little Shaak Ti." He also stated that there will be over 100 episodes, so we're also in for a relatively long series. But George Lucas also said that there will be possible appearance or cameo by the best intergalactic bounty hunter scum, Boba Fett.

As for the audiences, on May 1, 2007, George Lucas stated in an interview on an episode Late Night with Conan O'Brien:

''"It's very much Star Wars. It's not a, you know, South Park comedy. It's not a kiddie's Spongebob Squarepants. It's sort of the first dramatic animated show that is, um, PG-13, so it doesn't really go on late night, it doesn't go on Saturday afternoon, it actually doesn't go anywhere. I don't know what we're gonna do with it, but we're having a hell of a lot of... a great time making it."'

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is set to debut in Fall of 2008.