Seth Green's failed animated series, 'Star Wars: Detours,' explored comedy of Lucasfilm franchise but was canned w/ 2015's 'Episode VII' announcement
With all of the hype around the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed Star Wars: Episode VII, it's easy to forget about the Star Wars projects that have either been canceled (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) or put on indefinite hold. One example of the latter is an animated series entitled Star Wars: Detours. It was created by Robot Chicken creator Seth Green that poked fun at some of the more notorious Star Wars characters like Darth Vader. Basically Green expanded on his Robot Chicken bits of the same nature. In short, Disney and Lucasfilm did not want to have such a comedic look into this universe on the air while the upcoming films are being produced.
In a new interview, Green opened up about this failed project in order to educate those who are interested.
"I've had a lot of kids approach me about [Star Wars bits] that we've done on Robot Chicken that they never knew before we did it on Robot Chicken," he explained. "So their introduction to Strawberry Shortcake, the Smurfs, Transformers, whatever, is through our distorted, ironic self-assessment twenty years later. That's just disorienting to the way kids take in information."
This of course led to the decision to not proceed with Detours. But Green is staying hopeful about the project.
He said: "I do think there's a time where that show will be released, I just think that media's going to fundamentally change before it. You look at Netflix, you look at all of these VOD services, all of these downloadable content sites, these places where you buy an entire season of a show. We've got 39 produced episodes. You could do those in five-episode blocks for $1.99. I think it'll take the movies coming out before they feel like it's the right time to release this type of comedy. But I also feel like what we made was timeless, so I'm still excited to show it to people."
Would you like to see Star Wars: Detours eventually make its way onto the air (or Netflix, etc.)?