Speculation has been swirling recently since Dave Filoni confirmed new animated Star Wars projects are in the works. Now TheForce.net is reporting that a poster on the IMD message boards, who claims to be a former Lucasfilm employee, has posted a document with character descriptions and overviews of an animated series titled "Star Wars: Reclamation".
The Poster claims: "might be talking about this. we'd been working on details of it since early last year but didn't know the details until a few months ago. got the greenlight in january but stopped everything when the layoffs hit.... i could probably get in trouble, but oh wait, i don't work there anymore... who knows if this is the same project though, everything was dicey"
The story takes place 15 years after the battle of Endor with the Rebellion/Republic struggling with a continued Civil War with remnants of the Empire. Leia Organa is mentioned as "Vice chair" to "Supreme Chancellor Mon Mothma" but the familiar characters end there. The document goes on to describe two Jedi named Sky Bonteri and Evyn Aoka, a teenage criminal named Kala Calrissian and a Mandalorian called Manco among others. Han Solo & Chewbacca are not mentioned, but a character called The Shade who's described as "Armed with nothing but a Lightsaber and an astromech droid... clad in black...", Luke Skywalker anyone?
You can check out all the pages from the document below:
Now this could very well be fan fiction for all we know so take all this with a massive grain of salt. Regardless, it is intriguing. We will keep you updated on future developments with this story. In the meantime, we want to hear from you! Is this a joke? Or could this be the next Star Wars animated series? Let us know in the comments below or on Facebook!
Update: The good folks at RebelScum.com made contact with Lucasfillm Spokeswoman Tracy Cannobbio who confirmed that Reclamation is not real. Stating: "This is something we've never seen before."
A Jedi called Bontari? That screams fanfic.
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ReplyDeleteCould be legit? Doubt we'll ever know. Like the other projects in progress, hat bird has flown. /:|
ReplyDeleteanother thing, ending with a page that says SETTINGS implies that there's more to the document without the hoaxer actually having to produce it. If the document is real why would an ex-employee who doesn't care scan it and not page 7?
ReplyDeleteThis could be interesting...
ReplyDeleteIf this was true, which I highly doubt, it would ignore a lot of things including EU. It seems to suggest Luke had no hand in rebuilding the Jedi. I highly doubt Lucas or Dave would allow that to happen. The part that really seems suspect is the idea of a "Jedi monastery" or that this one "Jedi" is taking upon himself to rebuild the Jedi as if he is the one doing it not Luke. It also seems to be creating this new faction of "imperial union," etc, etc.
ReplyDeleteHowever the one reason this is either a hoax or never coming to past is that this might seriously conflict with the upcoming movies. That whatever this show does(did) would have to be reflected in the movies. This is especially true as it has been stated multiple times in the past that the animated shows, if produced, are on the same canon level as the movies. Because of that I highly doubt this would be produced until after episode seven comes out. On the other hand, I can easily see a animated show being set between two movies just like the Clone Wars had been placed between episodes 2 and 3. For example they could place a new series between episode's 3 and 4, or maybe sometime way before episode 1. That is more likely the after episode 6 where it could conflict with the upcoming movies.