It was officially announced yesterday (we knew it was coming) that we can expect a Clone Wars movie in August followed by a TV series that fall season on Cartoon NEtwork! It's a cartoon so that'll be different.

Here's the press release

Trailer looks good.

Jordan .

That god damn trailer's more popular than Uncle's Day in a whorehouse!

Jordan .

UPDATE: I read this today on cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/14/film.starwars.ap/index.html)

Yay! Here come the 501st!

Fans await return of Star Wars

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• Latest Star Wars film will be made into television series
  
• "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," is due in theaters August 15.
  
• Movie introduces a female Jedi who is Anakin's young apprentice

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Fans never seem to get their fill of "Star Wars," and George Lucas is happy to oblige.

Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theater-owners convention ShoWest on Thursday, showing a sequence from "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," a computer-animated movie due in theaters August 15. It will be followed by a TV series of the same name, to air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall.

The movie came about as an afterthought while Lucas was developing an animated TV show of the same name. That show debuts this fall, but Lucas figured it was ripe for big-screen treatment, too.

"You've got the whole assembly line built, and then you say, 'Hey, we can make up something,"' Lucas said in an interview. "It was like old-time movie making. What I love about television, it's like Monogram Pictures or the old studio system, where a couple guys come to work and they sit and have some coffee and go, 'Why don't we make a movie about such and such? OK, fine.' And at the end of the day, it's pretty much on its way."

Set in the years between episodes II and III -- "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith" -- of the big-screen "Star Wars" chronicle, the movie and series present fresh adventures of Jedi warrior Anakin Skywalker, his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and other colleagues.

The movie introduces a female Jedi, Ahsoki, who is Anakin's young apprentice.

"It's like 'Band of Brothers' in space, with Jedi," Lucas, 63, said. "You can tell lots of stories. They come up all the time."

Lucas said he plans to produce at least 100 hours worth of TV episodes of "Clone Wars."

He also is moving forward with a live-action "Star Wars" TV show focusing largely on new characters removed from the Skywalker family. That show will be set in the decades between "Revenge of the Sith" and the period when the original film, 1977's "Star Wars," takes place.

So can fans ever get enough of "Star Wars"?

"I don't know," Lucas said. "I'm thankful every year that it keeps going."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Jordan .

I was a big Jabba fan when I was a kid so I thought the little Hutt was funny.  Not sure about that one on Coruscant though.

I just remembered when I was little I used to wrap tape around some of the Star Wars figures heads and make them into new bounty hunters that hung out at Jabba's Palace or on his Sail Barge LOL.

EDIT - And I used to pretend they were fighting over the mighty Sarlacc Pit which was my bathroom sink.  I'm getting excited.  Need to calm down.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Jordan .

You interview yourself and vent about what a pile of sh*t/ awesome filmmaking the Star Wars prequels are, I guess, and get put in a movie.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

It's nice to finally hear someone else say that!! I've felt that for quite some time. I also think I to III don't deserve as much hatred as they get.

But then again, I was one of maybe 10 that didn't mind Lucas making the Special Editions. :-) I'm not a purist. (Which is one reason I don't mind Abrams tinkering with Star Trek either.)

Jordan .

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

coolsprings - regarding your comment a few posts above about everything being digital - i watched most of "A Bridge Too Far" yesterday and was amazed by the scene where they jump out of the planes and parachute down. Lots of planes and HUNDREDS of REAL PEOPLE jumping out of these airplanes for about 2 minutes worth of footage. The footage itself isn't all that interesting until you realize that today, they would've just digitized the whole thing, and knowing it was 100% real made it special somehow (I know that sounds sappy).

still haven't watched a single episode of the TV Show. Gonna wait for Blu-Ray.

Jordan .