At the Star Wars: The Clone Wars panel at Star Wars Celebration VI today, supervising director Dave Filoni said he wanted to bring out “the show’s biggest fan.” When that fan turned out to be George Lucas, suffice to say, the place lost it.
Lucas was not scheduled to appear at all at Star Wars Celebration this year, so his presence in Orlando was a complete surprise. The crowd got to their feet and began chanting, “George! George!”
Lucas’ time onstage was brief, as he gave a ton of praise to Filoni and The Clone Wars crew, noting how much he liked the writing on the series.
He said The Clone Wars allowed them to tell ongoing Star Wars stories that would be “far too complicated and far too expensive” in live-action and noted that they have been “Making it more and more adult” as the show has progressed. He added, “At the same time, we’re trying to do things that other people aren’t doing.”
A couple of years ago, there was news about another new Star Wars animated series aimed more specifically at kids and Lucas revealed that is still in play, remarking, “We are trying to do a younger-skewing show.”
As for the new comedic animated series, Star Wars: Detours, from Robot Chicken’s Seth Green and Matt Senreich, Lucas smiled, saying, “Detours… I don’t know what that is!”
Watch the First Footage from Star Wars: Detours
Lucas again mentioned how in live-action “You have limited resources. You can do things in animation you can’t do in live-action.” One of the new Clone Wars scenes we saw from Season 5 had a battle on a jungle planet with some winged creatures that may spark a few visual memories. Lucas revealed that they were doing, “A little bit of an homage to Jim Cameron... But it cost about 1000% less than Avatar.”
He admired The Clone Wars’ ability to tell offbeat stories as well, noting that they have a four-part storyline coming up that is, “Nothing but Droids - only two people speak English."
Filoni had previously said that the decision to bring Darth Maul back was all Lucas’. Asked about that, Lucas said he couldn’t help but think, “It would be fun to see what would happen if Darth Maul came back. He’s one of my favorite characters. He got killed right away."
That being said, Lucas noted, “We had a lot of discussions – He got cut in half! ‘Can we being him back?’ We had to justify that one."
He also loved that The Clone Wars allowed them to create Maul’s brother, Savage Opress and introduce the Witches of Dathomir, “and take it to a whole other level that you haven’t seen before.”
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