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Maccers



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:05 pm Reply with quote
There was an article on ANN a while ago reporting that george lucas, director of the star wars movie series, was opening an animation studio looking to mix Japanese Anime with Live Action.
Could this possibly suggest that Lucas may be looking to mix anime scenes in with live action scenes in Star Wars episode 3: Revenge of the Sith ala Kill bill?

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abunai
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:09 pm Reply with quote
I find it more likely that the purpose is to expand on the limited essay into animation that Lucas has already made with his Star Wars franchise. I refer, of course, to the animated shorts serialised on Cartoon network.

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jfrog



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:35 pm Reply with quote
abunai wrote:
I refer, of course, to the animated shorts serialised on Cartoon network.


So this means we aren't going to get another season of Droids?

*is disappointed*
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JustJon



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:17 pm Reply with quote
As long as we don't get another season of Ewoks, I'm cool with it.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:41 pm Reply with quote
JustJon wrote:
As long as we don't get another season of Ewoks, I'm cool with it.


We are the E-E-E-E- Ewoks.. we... ugh... I forgot how the theme song went. *thinks this calls upon her to dig up that old vhs she hasn't touched in 10 years*
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jfrog



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:50 am Reply with quote
There was an Ewoks cartoon?? I knew about the live-action movie, but I was under the impression that Droids was the Star Wars franchise's sole excursion into animation until Genndy Tartakovsky came along. I was too scared too watch those tapes, even when I was a little kid...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:58 am Reply with quote
jfrog wrote:
There was an Ewoks cartoon?? I knew about the live-action movie, but I was under the impression that Droids was the Star Wars franchise's sole excursion into animation until Genndy Tartakovsky came along. I was too scared too watch those tapes, even when I was a little kid...


I believe Driods and Ewoks were created about the same time. I could be wrong about that, but the VHS I have of Ewoks came has a preview of Driods as well.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:09 am Reply with quote
No, George Lucas is establishing an animation studio in Singapore for future animated spin-offs, there aren't going to be any cartoon clips in Episode III.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:16 am Reply with quote
littlegreenwolf wrote:
I believe Driods and Ewoks were created about the same time. I could be wrong about that, but the VHS I have of Ewoks came has a preview of Driods as well.


And until this thread came along, I was only carrying the burden of the knowledge of one of them, being blissfully unaware of the other.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:07 am Reply with quote
There is no way in hell George Lucas would mix anime into Episode 3 it would totally disrupt the flow of the movie and contradict the style of it. Especially after all the hard work he's done to get the movies just right in his eyes and to make all of them have a similar feel and look the same on dvd.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 3:01 pm Reply with quote
Fenrir wrote:
There is no way in hell George Lucas would mix anime into Episode 3 it would totally disrupt the flow of the movie and contradict the style of it. Especially after all the hard work he's done to get the movies just right in his eyes and to make all of them have a similar feel and look the same on dvd.


Oh, is that what he was doing?

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GATSU



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 4:27 pm Reply with quote
Star Wars is a rip-off of Yamato.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:35 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
Star Wars is a rip-off of Yamato.


Nice to know GATSU. Your witty little negative one-liners are the highlight of our forum days.
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jfrog



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:41 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
Star Wars is a rip-off of Yamato.


I've seen the argument made that Star Wars is alternately a ripoff of The Hidden Fortress, Lensman, and The Wizard of Oz, but that's just stupid.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:10 pm Reply with quote
jfrog wrote:
There was an Ewoks cartoon?? I knew about the live-action movie, but I was under the impression that Droids was the Star Wars franchise's sole excursion into animation until Genndy Tartakovsky came along. I was too scared too watch those tapes, even when I was a little kid...
Both sereis started fall of 1985. Droids lasted one season, Ewoks lasted two.

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*thinks this calls upon her to dig up that old vhs she hasn't touched in 10 years*
The DVDs for both series will be available in November.

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Star Wars is a rip-off of Yamato.
So Lucas was psychic? Yamato was 1979. Star Wars was 1977.

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I've seen the argument made that Star Wars is alternately a ripoff of The Hidden Fortress, Lensman, and The Wizard of Oz, but that's just stupid.
Actually, it's Joseph Campbell, Kursawa's The Seven Samurai and the pulp films of the 30s and 40s that inspired Star Wars.
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