Films and Videos
They can be based on George Lucas's hit movies and shows directly or be completely new or loosely based on the movies and shows. A short video clip is included as a special feature in the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series' second season DVD, titled Revenge of the Brick.
In 2009, a short movie titled Lego Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 was aired on Cartoon Network and uploaded to the LEGO Star Wars website.
In 2010, another CGI LEGO film was made titled Lego Star Wars: Bombad Bounty where Vader hires Boba Fett to track down the gungan Jar Jar Binks for an accident he caused to Vader. The film also takes place at the same time as the original movies showing that Jar Jar was responsible for the destruction of the first Death Star and was with Boba Fett on Jabba's Barge during the events of Return of the Jedi.
On July 7, 2011, a 30-minute, exclusive TV special was announced titled LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace by Michael Price (writer) about a Jedi Academy field trip. Tour guide Master Yoda leads a group of rambunctious Jedi younglings through Senate chambers when he senses a disturbance in the Force. Summoned to help save the Republic, he discovers that one of the younglings secretly boarded his ship...and has a taste for adventure. Meanwhile, C-3PO and R2-D2 are put in charge of the boisterous group and find themselves in over their heads. Yoda and the droids proceed to save the younglings from Sith lords. The special premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on July 22, 2011 at 7 p.m. and in the United Kingdom on October 17 at 5:30. The DVD and Blu-ray include several special features such as The Quest for R2-D2 and Bombad Bounty as well as other short films. In America, the Blu-ray disc was a double play disc and came with the Han Solo figure as he appeared in the film.
Notable Star Wars: The Clone Wars voice actors Tom Kane, Phil LaMarr and Anthony Daniels reprise their voice roles as Yoda, Bail Organa, and C-3PO respectively. The special also includes an archived clip of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and C-3PO in the cantina from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. As a running joke, Darth Vader is inserted into the film three times, causing a Lego version of George Lucas to come up and drive him out from the scene (this occurs in the scenes at: Sidious's Lair, Hoth, and the End Celebration).
On September 26, 2012, a new special titled LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Out aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. In it, Luke Skywalker embarks on a mission to find and destroy the Imperial base, but is relentlessly chased by a group of fanatic girls, who think of him as a celebrity for destroying the Death Star. Meanwhile, Darth Vader engages a "sibling" rivalry with Darth Maul, in order to prove he's the best Sith Lord to Emperor Palpatine, who is constructing the second Death Star.
Sam Witwer, Anthony Daniels and Tom Kane appear as the voices of Darth Maul, C-3PO and Yoda, and other actors from the films, including Kenneth Colley, Brian Blessed, Andrew Secombe and Julian Glover, reprise their roles (as Admiral Piett, Boss Nass, Watto and General Veers, respectively). The special was dedicated to the memory of Ralph McQuarrie, designer of the original trilogy, who died the same year the special was made.
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Famous quotes containing the words films and, films and/or videos:
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”
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“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
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