(Source: www.variety.com)
George Lucas announced that he is working on 100 Star Wars animated episodes, set during the Clone Wars.
Interviewed as part of the Museum of Television and Radio's Paley Festival, Lucas said the new shorts were very similar to the Star Wars: The Clone Wars series that the Cartoon Network aired last year. He will produce the episodes in-house and shop them to networks only after they are completed.
While characteristically tight-lipped about the new animated series, Lucas said it would recreate the feeling of the original movies, combining "smart-ass comedy with lots of contemporary humor."
Hopefully "contemporary humor" doesn't imply more characters like the controversial Jar-Jar Binks.
He said one episode of the new series would focus on the Jedi Kit Fisko, while another would be about the clone troopers themselves.
Lucas said he was more interested in moving his Star Wars series to television, decrying the "blockbuster" attitudes of the movie industry (an attitude he helped foster with the success of the original Star Wars trilogy).
"The risks are so high (with making feature length movies), and the odds so great, it takes the fun out of it," he said.
Lucas said that television was "a lot more fun than doing features."
"Nobody seems to care," he claimed about working for TV, in a statement most television producers would vehemently disagree with. "You just get to do whatever you want to do."
Lucas wouldn't say much about a proposed live-action Star Wars television series, saying it was "still a few years away."
