George Lucas museum to screen shelved Star Wars Detours
At San Diego Comic-Con, Seth Green revealed that a curated selection of episodes from Star Wars: Detours—the shelved animated comedy George Lucas helped create with the Robot Chicken team—will finally screen for the public at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art when it opens in Los Angeles this September.
The long-unseen series is part of a broader Comic-Con reveal of the museum’s film programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Fans following culture and entertainment drops can also track related coverage on BlasterPost’s Fintech & Crypto Alerts hub.
Key Takeaways
- Seth Green confirmed a curated run of Star Wars: Detours episodes will be shown at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
- George Lucas helped shape the Simpsons-style Star Wars comedy with Seth Green and Matthew Senreich in the early 2010s.
- About 39 episodes were finished, then shelved after Disney’s 2012 Lucasfilm purchase.
- The museum, opening Sept. 22, will also run continuous shorts and films in two drop-in theaters.
What did Seth Green announce about Detours at Comic-Con?
During the Hall H panel “Inside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art,” Green said a curation of Detours episodes will be on display for the public. He created the show with Robot Chicken partner Matthew Senreich.
Senreich stressed Lucas’s creative role, saying they made the series with George and that “he had his hands all over it.” Green added that he is simply excited for people to see the work after so many years out of their hands.
Panelists also included DC’s Jim Lee, museum senior curator and head of film programs Ryan Linkof, and moderator Keke Palmer.
Why was the George Lucas Star Wars series shelved?
Detours was pitched as The Simpsons in the Star Wars galaxy. Green and Senreich completed the comedy in the early 2010s, and Green has said 39 episodes were finished for broadcast.
After the Walt Disney Co. bought Lucasfilm in 2012, the goofy tone did not fit the emerging brand strategy, and the series was shelved indefinitely. Green said in 2021 that Disney+ interest was not high enough to reconfigure the decade-old episodes for release.
Museum screenings are not a Disney+ launch. How many episodes will play, and where inside the galleries, has not been detailed.
What film programming will the Lucas Museum offer?
Linkof said the roughly 100,000-square-foot museum, with more than 33 galleries, will include two theaters screening shorts and movies non-stop in an open-door, drop-in format.
The Robert Flaherty Theater will lean documentary, covering artists in the collection such as Norman Rockwell, Charles Schulz, Maurice Sendak, and Jim Lee. The Slavko Vorkapich Theater will spotlight early silent films, Winsor McCay animation, Looney Tunes, Cowboy Bebop anime, a Star Wars: Visions episode, and student films by George Lucas from 1965–1969.
Tickets for the Los Angeles museum, set to open Sept. 22, are already on sale. For Star Wars fans, Detours’ public debut marks a rare look at a George Lucas project left unfinished by the streaming era—now framed as narrative art rather than a TV premiere.