A Lost Star Wars Show Is Going to Be Shown For the First Time

There are a few Holy Grails of the Star Wars galaxy, things that were made and then never released and have become objects of obsession among hardcore fans. We’re talking stuff like the Boba Fett toy with the backpack that actually fired a rocket (before the prototype was altered for safety reasons), or the unmade Star Wars movie that was supposed to be produced by Kevin Feige, or Star Wars: Detours, a TV show that actually did get made (by George Lucas himself) that never saw the light of day.We covered this show and its sad saga on ScreenCrush over a decade ago. The short version: In the early 2010s, Lucas brought in the creators of Robot Chicken to make an animated comedy set within the world of Star Wars. (Robot Chicken’s Seth Green later said Lucas wanted to make The Simpsons for Star Wars.) It was called Star Wars: Detours, and because Lucas already had more money than the Emperor, he didn’t make it for any specific channel or under and exclusive deal; he and the creative team just made it.READ MORE: The Saga of Detours, the Star Wars Show No One’s Ever SeenBut right around the same time Lucas was developing Detours, he was also negotiating with Disney to buy Lucasfilm. Once ...