Animated Star Wars In Theaters?

By Josh Tyler: 2008-02-04 00:32:45

For a lot of geeks, the thing they’re most looking forward to on television isn’t the return of Lost (which was awesome last week) or the new season of Battlestar Galactica (which is taking too long), but the small screen debut of Star Wars as an animated series. Ah ha! But there’s a catch. The first place you see George Lucas’s new Clone Wars series may not be on television, but in theaters.

Action-Figure.com has been talking to some of Lucasfilm’s toy licensees, whom they say confirmed to them that the first three episodes of Clone Wars may get a theatrical release as a single, 90-minute film as early as this September. Once that happens, the rest of the show’s episodes will show up on television, on a still to be determined channel.

Lucas has never been shy about maximizing his earnings, and there’s definitely an audience out there for Clone Wars, so why not? It makes sense actually, especially if the quality of their work is up to snuff. I wonder though if we’re talking about a legitimate theatrical run, or some sort of limited, single night engagement, similar to the one Battlestar Galactica attempted to pull off late last year when they put their new mid-season miniseries in theaters for a single showing as a way of building buzz for it’s TV premiere. AF’s story talks about it like Lucasfilm plans to release it as an actual movie, but for now it’s all rumor and conjecture.

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