Cartoon Network airs the 18th episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. 
Cartoon Network airs the 18th episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the 19th episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the 20th episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the 21st episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the 22nd episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the 42nd episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the 43rd episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Ralph McQuarrie, the artist who envisioned key scenes and settings of the Star Wars universe, before sets or models were built and before filming began, dies at the age of 82. As the production artist for Star Wars, McQuarrie got his licks in early on how the “universe” should look, from costumes to spacecraft to weaponry. George Lucas credited McQuarrie’s artwork with keeping the movies’ “look” on track, as well as selling 20th Century Fox on the idea of financing the first movie in the absence of any kind of test footage. McQuarrie also provided concepts for a redesigned U.S.S. Enterprise for an early ‘70s Star Trek movie project, Star Trek: Planet Of The Titans, that ultimately went unfilmed. He also contributed early concept art to Battlestar Galactica, E.T., Cocoon, Batteries Not Included, and many others, and had also worked on the animated artists’ conceptions of the Apollo moon missions played during CBS’ coverage of those flights.
Disney announces the purchase of Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4,000,000,000, simultaneously announcing that work will commence on Star Wars Episode VII for a 2015 release. George Lucas, having already stepped down as Lucasfilm chairman earlier in the year, is suddenly even more of a billionaire than he already was, and Disney gets the keys to the Star Wars franchise with plans for new movies “every 2-3 years.”
Word breaks across Hollywood that Disney has secured the services of J.J. Abrams, co-creator of Lost and director of the 2009 and 2013 movies set in a re-imagined Star Trek universe, to direct the much-anticipated Star Wars Episode VII, the first new movie in the series since Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm at the end of 2012. With a locked-in release date in 2015, Abrams is expected to start work on Episode VII as soon as post-production and promotion for Star Trek Into Darkness are complete for that movie’s May 2013 release.
Disney announces that it has an entire empire of Star Wars movies in mind, including two movies built around the early days of specific fan-favorite characters, with Han Solo and Boba Fett being the first two characters to have movies centered around them. The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders Of The Lost Ark screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan – obviously no stranger to the exploits of Han Solo – is among those developing the storylines for these spinoff movies.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the first full episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga, featuring a cell of rogue Rebels fighting the totalitarian Empire. Though technically in the same continuity as its predecessor, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Rebels is the first Disney-produced Star Wars project following the studio’s acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. The first episode is roughly 43 minutes in length, a typical length for hour-long US television drama, but most future episodes (except for select “event” stories) will run 22 minutes long.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the second episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Anthony Daniels (Star Wars) and Paul Reubens (Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure) guest star.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the third episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the fourth episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the fifth episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the sixth episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the seventh episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Peter MacNicol (Ghostbusters II) guest star.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the eighth episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Peter MacNicol (Ghostbusters II) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the ninth episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Frank Oz (the voice of Yoda in the original Star Wars films) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the tenth episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Billy Dee Williams guest stars as Lando Calrissian.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 11th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 12th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 13th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 14th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. This episode closes the first season, and increases the story connections between Rebels and the previous Clone Wars animated series.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 15th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. This double-length episode opens the show’s second season, though the remainder of the second season won’t air for several more months. James Earl Jones guest stars as Darth Vader, and Billy Dee Williams guest stars as Lando Calrissian. Ashley Eckstein joins the cast, reprising her Clone Wars character, Ahsoka Tano.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 16th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. This episode picks up the second season and continues to build links between the Rebels animated series and its predecessor, The Clone Wars, by reintroducing the now-aged Clone Trooper nicknamed Rex (Dee Bradley Baker).
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 17th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 18th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer) makes her first appearance as Seventh Sister.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 19th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.