News > "Robot Chicken" to spoof "Star Wars" with George Lucas' blessing
April 25, 2007
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This sounds good: Seth Green and Cartoon Network (with George Lucas' blessing) is bringing us the Adult Swim special "Robot Chicken: Star Wars." The special will be a 30-minute episode (as opposed to the normal 15-minute "Robot Chicken" segments) and will spoof favorite scenes and characters from "Star Wars." Lucasfilm helped produce.
Mark Hamill, Conan O'Brien, Seth MacFarlane, Robert Smigel, Malcolm McDowell, Hulk Hogan, James Van Der beek, Donald Faison ("Scrubs") and Joey Fatone will all guest voice on the special.
The special grew out of a series of "Star Wars" sketches that originally appeared on "Robot Chicken." Lucas set up a meeting with Green and show co-creator Matt Senreich about posting the sketches on StarWars.com and in the meeting Green and Senreich pitched their idea for the special.
I think Green and Senreich have the ideal job now - they get paid to play with their old "Star Wars" toys.
