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George Lucas Says
Gerry Anderson's THUNDERBIRDS
Inspired His New CLONE WARS Cartoon!!

Alex Weprin of Broadcasting & Cable attended the Cartoon Network upfront. It featured an appearance by George Lucas, whose new "Clone Wars" series will be satcast on the channel. From Weprin's report:

George Lucas wrote:

... when it came to Star Wars, and the look and feel of it, I did want to do something that was a little more in the realm of anime design-wise than what is now currently in television and movies, outside of Japan. I wanted to give it a look and feel of something that is so compact. We picked the Gerry Anderson Thunderbirds to be our inspiration, and you will see it has a very stylized look. I didn't want it to look like Beowulf, which we could have done, I didn't want it to look like The Incredibles, when you are doing animation, you have a cast of characters and everyone knows what they look like, you really do have to come up with a very sophisticated and dynamic caricature of those characters.

Good news, if you're to ask me, as the "look" of the old Supermarionation "Thunderbirds" holds up amazingly well!

Read all of Weprin's story on the matter here.

The "Clone Wars" movie hits cinemas Aug. 15. The series follows in autumn.

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