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Lucas Museum at Comic-Con: Star Wars Animated Series ‘Detours’ to Finally Screen, Film Programming Revealed
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will publicly screen a selection of episodes from Star Wars: Detours, the animated parody series created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich that was never broadcast after Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. The announcement at San Diego Comic-Con is significant because it gives audiences their first official opportunity to see material from the long-shelved project when the museum opens in September.
The museum will contain more than 100,000 square feet of exhibition space across over 33 galleries, including two drop-in theatres showing films and shorts continuously. The Robert Flaherty Theater will focus on documentaries about featured artists, while the Slavko Vorkapich Theater will screen early silent films, animation, Looney Tunes, Cowboy Bebop, Star Wars: Visions and George Lucas student films from 1965 to 1969. Museum representatives said its programme aims to place popular art forms, including comics, illustration, posters and film, alongside more traditionally recognised museum art.
In short
- Star Wars: Detours episodes will finally be shown publicly.
- The Lucas Museum opens in September with two film theatres.
- Its programme centres popular art, animation and filmmaking.
Explained simply
Star Wars: Detours is an animated parody series created by comedians Seth Green and Matthew Senreich that was completed but never publicly broadcast. When Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the series was shelved, and it has remained unseen by mainstream audiences for over a decade. The show represents a rare case of officially-produced Star Wars content that never reached viewers through conventional channels.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a new institution dedicated to art forms that tell stories, ranging from film and animation to comics and illustration. Its programming aims to display popular art forms like animation and comics alongside more traditionally recognised forms of art. The museum features extensive exhibition space across more than 30 galleries alongside theatres for continuous film and animation screenings.
The museum will programme diverse animation and film content across its theatres, including early cinema, silent films and animation classics. Star Wars: Detours will be among the material screened at the museum, marking the first official public viewing of the series. The series, completed over a decade ago, has never been distributed through conventional broadcast or theatrical channels.
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