Between the mainline Star Wars movies, spinoff films like Rogue One, two animated series on the air right now and two live-action ones on the way, there’s a lot of Star Wars to go around. But you have to wonder: could there be more?
Disney thinks so. It’s launching Star Wars Galaxy of Adventure, which reimagines scenes from the first six movies as animated short films. Subjects will include the Death Star trench run from A New Hope, the battle with Darth Vader from Return of the Jedi, the fight between Yoda and Count Dooku from Attack of the Clones, and so. Get a load of what we’re in for below:
The shorts will be uploaded weekly to the Star Wars Kids YouTube channel from now until when Star Wars: Episode IX comes out in December 2019. If you couldn’t guess, the idea here is to get more children interested in the series, because having the undivided attention of millennials, gen X-ers, baby boomers, members of the greatest generation, dogs, cats and goldfish isn’t enough.
Animation is nice, though. And it’s cool that they’re dubbing over the original voice tracks.
In other genre-stories-adaptated-as-animated-series news, Entertainment Weekly reports that Adult Swim is making a show called Blade Runner — Black Lotus, based on Ridley Scott’s 1982 cyberpunk classic. “The Blade Runner universe is an incredibly deep well for story and character with its world and mythology that audiences have been debating and talking about since inception,” said executive producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. “We are excited to continue exploring that world via this anime series.”
The first season will run for 13 episodes, all of them directed by Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed) and Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). If you recognize those titles, you know that Adult Swim is serious about the show’s anime pedigree. Anime is having a bit of a moment this week, what with Netflix producing a live-action version of Cowboy Bebop and making some popular ’90s series available for streaming. Why should Adult Swim get left behind?
As for the story, all we know is that it will feature some familiar faces from the films and be set in 2032. That’s 14 years from now. So much will have changed.
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