'Star Wars' Animated Movie Set For Summer Release

by Jarrett Martineau | February 12, 2008 at 02:08 am | 850 views | add comment

Attention Star Wars fans: start getting excited all over again. There's a new movie in the works for you to enjoy this summer. And an animated one, at that.

I wonder if they're going to take an Animatrix approach, or simply extend storylines and narratives in animated form?

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" will open in theaters on August 15, ahead of a series of 30-minute "mini-movies" that will premiere on the Cartoon Network and TNT cable channels in the fall.

"I felt there were a lot more 'Star Wars' stories left to tell," said "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, who will executive produce the project. "I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and at the same time push the art of animation forward."