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screencrush.com /lost-star-wars-tv-show-detours/)
• The Sad Saga of the Star Wars TV Show No One’s Ever Seen
• The show was such a big deal for Lucasfilm that it was the subject of two different panels at Celebration VI, one on Friday and one on Saturday. Saturday’s panel even had an additional surprise: George Lucas showed up to help promote the series.
• By the time of their first public preview, they had 26 finished episodes, with another 13 episodes in production. All they needed was a network willing to broadcast them. They never got one.
• With no new Star Wars movies on the horizon, Lucas began quietly developing what he first referred to as “Star Wars: Squishies,” named after the old “
squash and stretch” principle of animation. Looking for collaborators, he turned to Senreich and Green, whose Robot Chicken routinely featured Star Wars sketches.
• The initial concept was basically “Seinfeld in space,” observing the boring lives of ordinary people living on the periphery of the Star Wars universe, with Dex’s Diner from Attack of the Clones serving as the galaxy’s version of Monk’s Cafe.
• The half of every day George Lucas wasn’t in the Detours writers’ room he spent in meeting with various licensers, toy makers, and corporate executives. And, though few people outside the company realized it at the time, he was also finalizing his plans to sell Lucasfilm to Disney. The $4 billion deal was announced on October 30, 2012, barely two months after the announcement of Star Wars: Detours at Celebration VI.
I thought this was an interesting article, if only for the insight to GL's idea process.
