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Release Date: August 15

Director: Dave Filoni

Writer: Henry Gilroy, George Lucas, Steven Melching and Scott Murphy

Starring: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor

Studio/Run Time: Warner Bros., 98 mins.

From The Matrix to Children of Men, it’s impossible to deny the influence that video games have had on film during the past decade. Star Wars: Clone Wars takes this to the logical extreme by creating a film that’s images look more like a video game than some AAA games. Unfortunately, it also chose a plot more suited to a game or a children’s cartoon series, which the film is partially a spin-off from, than a full-fledged movie. But it’s especially sad that a few of the better Star Wars games feature not only significantly deeper stories, but also superior CGI, meaning that both this project's film and video game predecessors have already done better.

Another Star Wars side-story taking place in between episodes III and IV will grace the television screen, according to an EW interview with the franchise's creator George Lucas. “We were doing 24, and now we’re going to move down the street here and do The Wire,” Lucas said when comparing the untitled live-action TV series with Episode IV. “It’s just different people doing the same thing in the same city.”

Despite having just finished the first year of the Clone Wars CGI television show (with two more seasons of that production to come), Lucas plans to script 100 episodes for the live-action series. “I know exactly what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it and what the risks are,” he says, setting a tentative 2010 premiere date for the live-action TV series.

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Movie goers haven't seen the last of the Star Wars franchise. Clone Wars, chronicling the events between Episodes II and III, will take to the big screen this August as an event that will kick off the 3-D series' launch on Cartoon Network.

Distributed by Warner Bros. instead of 20th Century Fox, Clone Wars will mark Lucasfilm's first use of CGI in an animated Star Wars spin-off, working as a higher-budget expansion to a 2003 cartoon miniseries of the same name.

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Clone Wars trailer
TV.com profile
Star Wars: Episodes I-VI — The greatest post-modern art film ever

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