From Entertainment Weekly to Ain't It Cool News to the TheForce.net, the entertainment world has been buzzing this week about a potential Star Wars animated series that has reportedly been offered to the Cartoon Network.  While the series has not been officially confirmed, rumors indicate that Lucasfilm itself produced the pilot episode, which likely indicates that this will be a computer-animated program.  Certainly a Clone Wars animated series would fit right in with Lucasfilm's master plan, which is currently touting a raft of different publications that deal with the Clone Wars era. 

 

The beginning of the Clone Wars was depicted in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, but Lucasfilm is detailing the events of the Clone Wars in a number of print venues including Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: Republic series, which will focus on the Clone Wars starting with issue #50, as well as in Del Rey's Star Wars book line, which will include a Clone Wars hardcover novel (Star Wars: Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover) and a Clone Wars paperback novel (by William Dietz).  Scholastic Inc. will also cover the Clone Wars in a trilogy of novels exploring the exploits of the young bounty hunter, Boba Fett, while The Star Wars Insider magazine will include Clone Wars fiction in its 2003 issues as well as official news bulletins from both the Republic and Separatist camps. 

 

With all the current emphasis at Lucasfilm on the Clone Wars, an animated series would appear to be a logical extension of what is happening in the print media; let's just hope that the animated Clone War show (if it gets the green light) will be more like the Droids series than the Ewoks.