‘Star Wars’ has been hiding a parody for 13 years. Now it’ll finally bring it to light… but only for a select few

If Star Wars fans know anything, it’s about projects that looked good but were canceled for one reason or another. From the Lando movie to George Lucas’s series, the saga dangles a treat in front of you and then snatches it away, so what happened to Star Wars Detours, an animated parody that was actually made in 2013, isn’t all that strange : after seeing it, they decided to shelve it for good without explaining why.

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The series, which took place between the prequels and the original films, was created by George Lucas himself, and developed by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, whose names might not ring a bell, but you may know as the creators of Robot Chicken. According to Green, the legendary director defined it as “The Simpsons in the Star Wars universe” and they got as far as completing 39 episodes, with another 62 finished scripts that will never see the light of day. At least, not for all of us.

It’s not that the series was exactly terrible: its voice cast was spectacular, with Seth Green, Seth MacFarlane, Felicia Day, Donald Faison, Jennifer Hale, Zachary Levi, Joel McHale and “Weird Al” Yankovic, as well as iconic voices from the franchise like Anthony Daniels, Ahmed Best or Billy Dee Williams. Still, a few episodes (we don’t know how many) will be shown at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. Better than nothing, but Disney+ doesn’t seem inclined to let all of us judge for ourselves.

Nobody knows anything else, and that’s because of Lucasfilm’s secrecy since it was bought by Disney: it thought that the best way to reach a new audience wasn’t through parody, and here we are now, without it but fed up with seeing dozens of comedic episodes (especially LEGO ones) set in the universe. Is it about time to call George Lucas back?