Every now and then something gets past me on this inter-web thingy. So for those of you who are like me and missed the recent news…STOP PRESS! There’s going to be a new Star Wars movie THIS SUMMER!!!

Lucasfilm and Warner Brothers, yes WB not 20th Century Fox, will be releasing a feature length animated film on August the 15th, 2008 and will follow it up with a series of 30-minute weekly installments on the Cartoon Network. Even better still is that it’s all going to be about The Clone Wars that occur in between Episodes 2 and 3 of the live action feature films. Hold on a minute now! This sounds a little familiar? Didn’t we have Star Wars Clone Wars on the Cartoon Network in between the release of episodes 2 and 3? It seems that was different!

Star Wars: Clone Wars, which ran from 2003-2005, was a 2D version of events and were only 3-12 minutes per episode. The series ran for 3 seasons but is available to buy on two Volumes of DVD. Or you could watch them on YouTube. Either way it’s well worth a look. The new version will have more and longer episodes and will be in CG-animation as you can see from this trailer.

There’s an interview with George Lucas all about it here. In it he mentions the plans for the live-action TV series, but says that they are still at the script stage and it will probably be 2010 before that starts. That series is to focus on the more minor characters and will be set in between Episodes 3 and 4. It has been suggested that this series will be for a more mature audience like Batlestar Gillactica and Firefly. Now that would be interesting! I’ll post more on that when I have it.