• [NEWS] Old Star Wars Ewok movies and animated shows coming to Disney+

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 17 13:25:22 2021
    The Boba Fett animation was easily the best bit of the awful Star Wars
    Holiday Special", but it was still pretty bad in itself - badly drawn,
    badly animated.

    The "Ewoks" animated show is back, but not (yet) the "Droids" anaimated show.


    From Variety.com ...


    'Star Wars': Ewoks TV Movies, Boba Fett 'Holiday Special' Debut
    Finally Coming to Disney Plus
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    "The Star Wars Holiday Special" is finally coming to Disney Plus
    ... kind of.

    In the biggest bulk release of "Star Wars" content since the
    streamer's launch, several "Star Wars" TV spinoffs from the
    1970s, 1980s and 2000s will debut on Disney Plus on April 2.
    Among them will be the animated short "The Story of the Faithful
    Wookiee" - featuring the debut of bounty hunter Boba Fett - that
    played in the middle of the live-action "Holiday Special" when
    it first aired on CBS on 1978.

    Joining "Faithful Wookiee" will be two TV movies featuring the
    cuddly Ewoks, 1984's "Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure" and
    1985's "Ewoks: The Battle for Endor"; the animated "Ewoks" TV
    series that aired from 1985 to 1986; and the animated "Star
    Wars: Clone Wars" TV micro-series from Genndy Tartakovsky that
    aired on Cartoon Network from 2003 to 2005.

    These spinoffs have lived in the hearts of hardcore "Star Wars"
    fans largely because many have been difficult to find, no more
    so than "The Star Wars Holiday Special." Starring Mark Hamill,
    Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, the program, which did not
    involve creator George Lucas, was immediately panned as a
    slap-shod cash grab. While the "Holiday Special" has been known
    to crop up on YouTube every so often, it's never been
    officially released in any format.

    "The Story of the Faithful Wookiee," however, has been widely
    considered to be the best part of the "Holiday Special," in
    large part because it marks the debut of Boba Fett, who later
    appeared in live-action in 1980's "Star Wars: The Empire
    Strikes Back." Lucasfilm even included "Faithful Wookiee" as
    an easter egg on the 2011 Blu-ray release of the first six
    "Star Wars" features. (A live-action TV series about the
    character, "The Book of Boba Fett," is due to premiere on
    Disney Plus at the end of the year.)

    After debuting on ABC as "The Ewok Adventure" in 1984, the
    90-minute special was released in theaters internationally as
    "Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure." Other than Warwick
    Davis reprising his role as the Ewok Wicket from 1983's "Star
    Wars: Return of the Jedi," neither "Caravan of Courage" nor
    its sequel the following year, "Ewoks: The Battle for Endor,"
    reference "Star Wars" mythology in any substantive way. The
    animated "Ewoks" TV series took a similar approach.

    "Star Wars: Clone Wars," by contrast, was deeply tied to the
    prequel trilogy. Set between 2002's "Star Wars: Attack of the
    Clones" and 2005's "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith," the
    first two seasons of "Clone Wars" were comprised of
    three-to-five-minute-long, action-heavy animated shorts,
    tracking the characters of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin
    Skywalker. Season 3 of the show expanded the storytelling to
    five, 12-minute long episodes. (In 2008, Lucasfilm revived
    "The Clone Wars" as a more traditional animated series
    without Tartakovsky's involvement; that show ended its run
    on Disney Plus in May 2020.)

    Curiously, rather than make a splashy announcement of the
    release of all this long-lost "Star Wars" content, Disney
    quietly included the titles among its list of material coming
    to Disney Plus in April. A spokesperson for Lucasfilm did not
    immediately respond to a request for comment from Variety,
    but io9 is reporting that there aren't any further plans to
    release more of the "Holiday Special" beyond the Boba Fett
    animated short.


    <https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/star-wars-holiday-special-boba-fett-ewoks-caravan-of-courage-disney-plus-1234932286/>

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