Thursday, June 28, 2007

Lucas lightens up

From TVsquad, It hasn't even been a week since Family Guy wrapped for the season, but already there's buzz about next season's premiere. The cartoon has received George Lucas' blessing to spoof Star Wars. The episode will be an hour-long and use the Family Guy characters to recreate Star Wars. So, Peter Griffin will be Han Solo, Lois will be Leia, Stewie will be Darth Vader, Brian will be Chewbacca, Chris will be Luke. Etc, etc.

This is interesting because we're already going to see a Star Wars spoof from Robot Chicken next month, which not only has Lucas' blessing but also his cooperation. Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane often voices characters on Robot Chicken and Seth Green produces Robot Chicken but also voices 'Chris' on Family Guy. Not sure if this all came together by coincidence or what.MacFarlane will premiere some of the Family Guy/Star Wars spoof at this weekend's Star Wars convention in LA.

1 comment:

Octopunk said...

That all sounds like fun, the wrap party for the Robot Chicken special was happening the day after my last day in LA (awwww).

As long as the FG ep remembers to actually parody. Their Poltergeist episode had a bit too much straight replaying of favorite scenes, which is a touch too fanboyish.

Of course, who am I kidding, Seth McFarlane rocks.

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