Confirmation has come, those rumblings were correct.

STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS will have a theatrical debut run of the first three episodes (100 minutes) on August 15th before becoming a half-hour show on the Cartoon Network and TNT during the fall. Rather surprisingly the movie is a dual production from Lucas Film and Warner Brothers, instead of 20th Century Fox who have distributed every single STAR WARS production to date.

The show will cover all the missing gaps between STAR WARS episodes II and III, because Lord knows we need to see what went on during the Clone Wars.

When will Lucas learn that mystery is far more interesting then being told EVERYTHING? Everyone knows the better idea was to set this far, far away from any of the current STAR WARS canon.

Here’s George…

“I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the art of animation forward.”

So there’s Anakin in the image above, with the new character of Ahsoka, who is his Jedi apprentice. I fear a bad ending for that character!

Obi-Wan, Yoda, Padme, Darth Sidious, Count Dooku are just some of the already established characters who will appear in the show, along with many new characters. The only returning actors from the series to voice their characters are Anthony Daniels (C3PO) and Matthew Wood (General Grevious).

I could never get into the Tartakovsky style animation of The Clone Wars, so I’m happy to see that this a completely different setup and artist mentality.

I’ll see it, no doubt you will see it too… though until Lucas gives up his series to someone else and let’s them go rip with a tale set far away from anything that has gone before then we’ll never truly get excited again for a STAR WARS picture.

source - coming soon, starwars.com