{"id":411030,"date":"2026-07-24T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411030\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:10:08","slug":"comic-con-2026-animated-star-wars-series-will-finally-premiere-at-george-lucas-museum-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411030\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con 2026: Animated \u2018Star Wars\u2019 series will finally premiere at George Lucas museum \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long time ago at an animation studio in Burbank, director George Lucas<\/a> teamed up with the \u201cRobot Chicken\u201d goofs to make 39 episodes of \u201cStar Wars: Detours,\u201d an animated parody of the Star Wars universe.<\/p>\n

But when the Empire known as Disney absorbed Lucasfilm<\/a> in 2013, the series took its own detour into a vault, also probably in Burbank, where it gathered dust on a shelf. Until now.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys, here\u2019s the thing,\u201d said Seth Green during a panel on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art<\/a> in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con<\/a> on Thursday, July 23. \u201cWe made a show with George, an animated series. He wanted to make a \u2018Simpsons\u2019 in the Star Wars universe. It\u2019s called \u2018Detours.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there\u2019s going to be a curation of episodes from that show on display for the public,\u201d continued Green, co-creator of the animated series \u201cRobot Chicken\u201d with Matthew Senreich, with whom he also runs Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.<\/p>\n

\"Keke<\/p>\n

Keke Palmer speaks at \u2018Inside The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art\u2019 Hall H panel during 2026 Comic-Con International: San Diego at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2026 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman\/Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n

\"Seth<\/p>\n

Seth Green attenda a panel for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art during Comic-Con International on Thursday, July 23, 2026, in San Diego. (Photo by Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

\"Seth<\/p>\n

Seth Green speaks at \u2018Inside The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art\u2019 Hall H panel during 2026 Comic-Con International: San Diego at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2026 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman\/Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n

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Tickets go on sale July 21 for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The $1 billion museum was founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG) (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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More than seven years after construction began, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced today it will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026. Construction on the $1 billion museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson continues on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025 in Exposition Park. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced that it will offer free admission to its South Los Angeles neighbors and host a community preview event ahead of the museum\u2019s grand opening in September. Construction on the $1 billion museum, founded by filmmaker George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson continues on Friday, May 1, 2026 along S. Vermont Ave. in Exposition Park. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

\"George<\/p>\n

George Lucas participates in a panel discussion about the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles during Comic-Con International on July 27, 2025, in San Diego. (K.C. Alfred\/San Diego Union-Tribune)\n<\/p>\n

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George Lucas, Guillermo del Toro, and Doug Chiang wave to the crowd at the Sneak Peek: Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art panel during Comic-Con International on July 27, 2025 in San Diego, California. (K.C. Alfred \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)\n<\/p>\n

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Keke Palmer speaks at \u2018Inside The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art\u2019 Hall H panel during 2026 Comic-Con International: San Diego at San Diego Convention Center on July 23, 2026 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman\/Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n

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What was it like working with Lucas, panel host Keke Palmer asked Senreich and Green.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s funny,\u201d Senreich said. \u201cNobody thinks that. Like, everybody sees the serious side to him. The fact that we had this opportunity to make him laugh was always one of those things I always come back to.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me like six months to get comfortable talking with him because I had idolized him growing up,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut once you get to that place, you realize he\u2019s like us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green met Lucas first, though Lucas might not have realized that, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met him several times before he would remember meeting me,\u201d Green said. \u201cI realized I had to figure out a better point of entry, and I finally found the right moment. It was truly just finding anything that we could have in common, and then talking to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot as a fan. And it made him comfortable to interact with me where I was. Like, I\u2019m not crazy,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t need you to sign everything,\u201d Senreich added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut also, like, I would take them,\u201d Green said, prompting laughter from the rest of the panel, which in addition to Senreich and Palmer included Jim Lee, president, publisher and chief creative officer of DC Comics, and Ryan Linkof, senior curator and head of film programming for the Lucas Museum.<\/p>\n

Linkof also shared details of the film programming the museum will feature when it opens on Sept. 22. Two state-of-the-art theaters will screen films nonstop when the museum is open, one of them focused mostly on documentaries, the other on experimental and avant-garde films including animation.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Lucas] had this great and really unique idea for a film program that would essentially be an extension of the the exhibitions,\u201d Linkof said. \u201cAnd see these beautiful theaters as almost like film galleries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long time ago at an animation studio in Burbank, director George Lucas teamed up with the \u201cRobot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[71831,48,52,51,47,50,49,1399,420],"class_list":["post-411030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-comic-con","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-movies","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}