This long-lost Star Wars show is coming back — and it's headed for Disney Plus

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Star Wars Detours, the unaired Star Wars animated spoof evidence, could make a surprise comeback adjacent month on Disney Plus.

According to rumors (via CinemaBlend), Disney is planning to release the series exclusively on its streaming platform every bit a surprise Star Wars Day (aka May 4) treat. This will surely please fans, nigh of whom had probably long agone given up on the series always seeing the light of 24-hour interval.

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For the unaware, Star Wars Detours was an blithe comedy serial set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. It was the result of a collaboration between George Lucas and Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich and promised to take a loving swipe at all things Star Wars.

The show boasted a solid voice bandage, with Joel McHale, Cree Summer, Seth MacFarlane, Donald Faison, and even Weird Al Yankovic lending their song cords to the project. Star Wars legends Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams were even ready to reprise their roles as C-3PO and Lando Calrissian as well.

Nor was it canceled in pre-production, either: a trailer was debuted alongside the evidence's announcement in 2012 and it'due south believed that ii complete seasons currently exist. That would tie in with the details in this rumor, which states that 52 completed episodes volition driblet on Disney Plus at one time.

The prove's demise came as a upshot of Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012, with the Business firm of Mouse shelving the evidence in favor of its own plans for the Star Wars franchise — which seemingly didn't involve a spoof series.

Fans have long held onto the hope that the serial might one mean solar day exist shown, and the renewal of the Detours trademark in 2018 suggested that Disney wasn't fully done with it.

Disney originally took quite a hardline approach to non-mainline Star Wars projects, taking the extended universe novels and series out of canon and canceling the greatly anticipated video game Star Wars: 1313 in the wake of its purchase of the IP.

However, in recent years the company'due south opinion on Star Wars' oftentimes colorful past appears to have softened; for instance, series such as Star Wars: Ewoks and the two live-activity Ewok-focused movies have been added to Disney Plus in recent weeks. The resurrection of Star Wars Detours would further prove that Disney is loosening its grip on the franchise, at least a little bit.

Information technology's worth noting that for now this is just a rumor and there's every possibility that Star Wars Detours never sees the light of solar day. However if true, fans of a galaxy far far abroad will have a new (only also old) testify to devour next month.

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