Star Wars Expands to Live Action TV

Lucasfilm's Star Wars spin-off TV series Clone Wars is the studio's first project. This is an extension of an existing Cartoon Network show, whose five-minute episodes will now be extended to half-hour programmes following the battles led by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and other Jedi knights against the Army of the Republic (which feature in the cinema franchise at the end of Episode II: Attack of the Clones). It is planned that the series will be completed next year.

Lucasfilm is also working on a live-action TV series joining the dots between the end of Revenge of the Sith and the first Star Wars film, with George Lucas expected to direct.

George Lucas himself did not attend the studio's grand opening, but invited guests were greeted instead with a traditionally auspicious lion dance, a feng shui master's blessing and the unveiling of a rather less traditional Yoda statue at the studio's entrance.