Star Wars Detours

Star Wars Detours is a canceled animated television series that features a comedic look at the Star Wars universe. On March 11, 2013, Lucasfilm announced that it had postponed the series in order to concentrate on Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens.
==Premise==
Star Wars Detours is an animated comedy that explores what daily life is like in a galaxy far, far away. There are no Empires striking back or attacking clones here. Instead, Star Wars Detours focuses on the universe's regular folks and their everyday problems... which, to be fair, do frequently involve famous bounty hunters, crazed Ewoks, and even a Dark Lord of the Sith. Welcome to Star Wars: Detours: the other side of the stars, between the wars.
The series takes place between the events of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and is set in three general locations: Coruscant, the Death Star and Tatooine. Episodes are divided into three six-minute segments.
==Development==
George Lucas revealed in June 2009 that a new Star Wars animated series was in development. On April 5, 2010, StarWars.com officially revealed that the series was in production by Lucasfilm Animation, and that it would be a comedy. Writers were hired from various TV series, including The Simpsons, Family Guy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Daily Show. Some of the animated work on the series was done by The Monk Studio, a visual effects and animation studio located in Thailand, which also worked on the film Strange Magic for Lucasfilm.
==Release==
On December 21, 2012, The Walt Disney Company completed its acquisition of Lucasfilm Ltd.. On March 11, 2013, Lucasfilm announced that the series had been postponed in light of the upcoming release of the sequel trilogy. At MegaCon 2014, the Robot Chicken creators reaffirmed that Star Wars Detours would be released at some point, with more than thirty planned episodes. In April of the same year, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich revealed that Lucasfilm felt it would have been counterproductive to spend three years introducing children to a comedic, deconstructionist view of characters whom they would then be expected to take seriously upon the release of Episode VII. Believing that Detours was timeless, the two were confident that their presentation of characters like Darth Vader as beleaguered middle-managers could wait until after the sequel trilogy's sincere presentation of Star Wars had concluded.
In October 2015, voice actress Felicia Day mentioned during a livestream on her YouTube channel that as far she knew, the show had been cancelled. In June 2018, however, Lucasfilm filed a new trademark for the series. In October 2019, Seth Green expressed his doubts regarding a possible release, as he was under the impression that, after the 2012 acquisition by Disney, Lucasfilm wasn't interested anymore in "this kind of deconstructive comedy coexisting with these sincere interpretations of the characters," unless strong demand arose from the fan community.
In November 2020, one six-minute episode, titled "Dog Day Afternoon," leaked on Reddit. In a June 2021 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Green said that he no longer expected the series to get a release, citing a lack of interest from Disney/Lucasfilm executives. He also speculated that the finished episodes would have to be reworked to be appropriate for Disney+.
==Continuity==
Before the 2014 canon reboot, Holocron continuity database administrator Leland Chee said the series was classified as D canon.
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Category:Animated television series
Category:Parodies