It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride for
Star Wars fans following Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm last year, beginning with the shock announcement that the House of Mouse was to develop a new sequel trilogy starting with
Star Wars: Episode VII in 2015, in addition to several standalone
Star Wars features. However, it hasn't all been good news coming out of the galaxy far, far away, with Disney deciding to close the video game development company LucasArts earlier this week - consigning the planned
Star Wars: First Assault and
Star Wars 1313 games to history - while last month saw Lucasfilm bringing an end the hit animated series
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as well as placing Seth Green's animated comedy series
Star Wars Detours on indefinite hold (that last one's probably not a bad thing, judging by the
trailer).
Although the end of
The Clone Wars means that
Star Wars is currently absent from the small screen (with the long-proposed live-action series also now looking highly unlikely),
Star Wars: The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni has revealed that another animated show is in the pipeline, with Filoni telling
RebelForceRadio that he is currently developing a new
Star Wars project for Lucasfilm Animation: "At this point, I am involved in some early production discussions and exploration of what we’ll be doing with
Star Wars animation in the future, which is really exciting for me and I have some friendly faces around me, of course, that are helping me on the project. So it’s a transition time, as I’ve said before, and I think it will lead to an exciting time and hopefully I’ll see things grow again."
