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In early 2010, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich created a Star Wars animated parody series titled Turns. It never aired, and when The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm in 2012, there was a fear that the show would never be seen again.
However, Star Wars fans and audiences will finally be able to see at least some of the episodes as part of expanded exhibits scheduled to be viewed at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
““There will be a curation of the episodes of this show shown to the public,” revealed Seth Green, who created the show with his help. Robot chicken Partner Matthew Senreich, during a panel discussion at San Diego Comic-Con.
Green and Sunreich were on stage in Hall H to give an insight into the Lucas Museum, which will open in September, and were joined by world-famous comedian and DC president Jim Lee, Lucas Museum senior curator and head of film programs Ryan Lenkov, as well as supervising actress Keke Palmer.
Lenkov revealed that the museum will include, among its 100,000 square feet of exhibition space and more than 33 galleries, two theaters showing non-stop short films and films, highlighting how photo art is a vehicle for technology, storytelling and its creators.
Visitors will have access to the Robert Flaherty Theater and the Slavko Vorkapić Theater in an open, gallery-like experience. Flaherty’s filmography will be more documentary-focused, and will feature documentaries about artists whose work is on display at the Lucas Museum, including Norman Rockwell, Lee, Charles Schulz, Maurice Sendak, Diego Rivera, J.C. Leyendecker, and Weegee, as well as toys. secret comic book, Directed by, among others, Robert Mann.
Devoted to the Passionist movement, Vorkapich will show early silent films by Georges Méliès, Emile Cohl, W. K. L. Dixon, Edwin S. Porter, and others; Early animation by Winsor McKay; Looney Tunes; Anime from Cowboy Bebop; episode of Star Wars: Visions; and George Lucas’s Student Films (1965-1969), among other reels.
Linkof has also released a trailer for the film, which can be seen below.
Lenkov and other committee members took time to describe how the art at this museum differs from other museums, as it seeks to focus on popular art.
“It will be a home for the kinds of art we live with,” he said. “There are book and magazine illustrations, picture book art, children’s book illustrations, poster art, films. These are forms that have influenced and inspired people and given shape to the world around us.”
It will raise “all of this to be on par with how museums approach art in general, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, contemporary art,” said Lee, who has already toured the museum that will feature artworks. “It’s a very smart way to take everything that is considered commercial art, or art for the masses, or entertainment, and elevate it into something else.”
Green agreed, with an obsessive point of view.
“We have lived long enough to see all the things we took a beating for loving become the fine arts of our day,” he said. “It’s kind of unusual.”
Lee, who made his Hall H debut, concluded the panel with an impassioned monologue in which he spoke about the importance of art in developing perspectives and how seeing it up close is a way to connect with artists he admires.
““I think if you go to this museum, you’ll see art that you’ll recognize and have seen all your life, through commercials, through comic books, but you’ll see it in a different way that will hopefully enlighten and inspire you. And (it will) really show you, ‘This is amazing art, we have it all around us, how lucky are we?'” he said.
