In an interview posted over on Topless Robot in which they talk about their extremely popular ‘Robot Chicken’ series, creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich had this to say when the subject of ‘Star Wars Detours’ was brought up:
Has Disney killed Star Wars Detours?
No, no, and I think – I’ll correct this again – there’s a misinterpretation that Disney had anything to do with that decision. That was 100% a Lucasfilm decision, and it was born from the time they decided to make new movies. We started having conversations about what the next three years of Star Wars were going to be before those movies came out. And it was months of talking with Kathy Kennedy, and the decision makers at the company.
The decision really was that because our show – the way it was conceived – is timeless, and because we’ve got nearly 40 completely finished, ready for broadcast episodes, but because the tone of the show is comedic, and it’s more like the Simpsons universe within the Star Wars universe, it was counter-intuitive to spend the next three years targeting young kids and teens with a show that was kind of a deconstructionist view of the characters that they just, three years from now, were going to be meant to take very seriously.
Take the source link below for more comments from Seth and Matt on ‘Detours’.
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