{"id":17354,"date":"2011-09-13T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=17354"},"modified":"2011-09-13T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T17:21:00","slug":"the-clone-wars-how-involved-is-george-lucas-with-the-show-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/the-clone-wars-how-involved-is-george-lucas-with-the-show-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clone Wars: how involved is George Lucas with the show now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Clone Wars successfully conveys all the themes and ideas we associate with Star Wars \u2013 and this upcoming fourth year will apparently demonstrate this better than any other. According to the show’s supervising producer, Dave Filoni, George Lucas is still absolutely crucial to the production of the show. “He has really taken the stance of a teacher \u2013 a Jedi Master, if you will \u2013 to make sure that as I make these episodes, that I do them in the way that he oversaw and created the Star Wars films,” Filoni tells us. “It\u2019s important to him that they fit nicely with his movies, but I think one of the things I\u2019m most proud of with our crew is that we\u2019ve been able to really surprise him at times with what we\u2019re capable of and impress him. It\u2019s no easy feat to impress the person that created this universe of Star Wars.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s what we shoot for, we don\u2019t do anything half-way, we go all the way, and when he sits down to watch an episode I can tell he really enjoys it. So I think he\u2019s having a great time. It allows him to be very free with his creativity. He\u2019s been a great collaborator with us the whole time, in guiding the show to be Star Wars. At the end of the day, I always tell people, if I\u2019ve ever got a question on how things should go with the plot, or how a character would behave, I\u2019m one of the few people who just get on the phone, call him up on the phone and go, \u2018hey, would Obi-Wan really do this?\u2019 It helps to have a definite answer of yes or no from the master himself.”<\/p>\n

Season 4 of The Clone Wars airs from this Friday on Cartoon Network in the US.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We ask Lucasfilm’s Dave Filoni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1,140],"tags":[94,95],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tcw4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}