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Jeff Carlisle, Katie Cook, Grant Gould and Tom Hodges will be doing the artistic duties on these online tales that are meant to supplement what occurs in the weekly show. Look for more information in the coming weeks.

ATTENTION STAR WARS FANS!

New York Int'l Children's Film Festival announces the raffle grand prize during the East Coast debut of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the first animated film from Lucasfilm! This special advance screening takes place at 5pm on Sunday, August 10 at Symphony Space (95th Street and Broadway) in NYC.

• First 100 people in line will receive a full-size theatrical poster
• Door prizes for every attendee
• More Star Wars giveaway prizes before the screening!

The only way to win this fantastic prize is to be at the event! If you have not yet purchased tickets, a few are still available, and can be bought at: www.gkids.tv/intheaters.cfm. Hope to see you there!

"Now we're going to find out about Jabba's family and what the clones are like."

"[With Ahsoka] I wanted to develop a character who would help Anakin settle down. He's a wild child after [Attack of the Clones]. He and Obi Wan don't get along. So we wanted to look at how Anakin and Ahsoka become friends, partners, a team. When you become a parent or you become a teacher you have to become more respnsible. I wanted to force Anakin into that role of responsibility, into that juxtaposition."

"Ventress was developed for Attack of the Clones — early on, they thought they'd have Sidious' apprentice after Maul be a woman. Then they abandoned the idea of having Ventress be the next apprentice and used Dooku instead. We thought, "That's a fan fave character [from the Expanded Universe] so let's draw her out." So now you have these two new women coming into the story at the same time — one is Anakin's apprentice and the other is Dooku's. That worked out very nicely for the story we wanted to tell."

Be sure to read the entire interesting article. Thanks for the update Doze!

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon is by James Luceno, the best-selling author of Dark Lord, Cloak of Deception, The Unifying Force and Labyrinth of Evil. It is due out in hardcover from Del Rey Books in October, 2008. Here's a look at the cover art, with jacket designed by David Stevenson and art by John Van Fleet. Be sure to read more about the new book.

"We're looking to shoot it in Australia," Lucas said at his Big Rock ranch, the site for his new animation studio, north of San Francisco. If given the green light, the live action Star Wars offshoot will be one of the most expensive TV productions made in Australia and create hundreds of acting and crew jobs for the local industry. 

There was speculation the as yet untitled series would begin shooting next year, but it may be pushed back to 2010. Lucas has employed two Australian scriptwriters to pen the series and continues to work on "getting all of the technology worked out" to make the show.

The 63-year-old director, writer and producer, who revolutionized cinema with 1977's Star Wars, is no stranger to Sydney. He made 2002's Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and 2005's Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith at Fox Studios.

"It is going ahead," Lucas confirmed. "We're in the process of writing screenplays right now." "It's going to take a while because it's really hard to do."

The series will not follow the regular Star Wars storylines, instead focusing on the "lower levels of life" of Lucas' Star Wars world.

"It has nothing to do with the Skywalker saga," Lucas said. "None of the Skywalkers or anything." "This is what I call a little footnote to the Skywalker saga." "... It is about the lower levels of life, the lower depths." "They hear about the fact it is no longer a republic and now it's an empire, but they are from a world where none of that really means too much to them."

Thanks for the heads up Doze!