He may be back voicing TODO 360 once again, this time in the smash hit The Bad Batch, but memories of his time working on Star Wars: Detours are never far away and Seth Green gives an update on the status of a show many are very interested in seeing with Entertainment Weekly.
“The most recent conversations I’ve had with anybody who would be in a position to say so say that it’s not soon,” says Green. Okay, but why?
“Well, there are 39 episodes that were finished for broadcast,” notes Green. “But we finished them almost 10 years ago, and so there would have to be a bit of reconfiguring of the existing stuff to make it something that Disney+ would release as a Lucasfilm offering. And the way it’s been explained to me is that there hasn’t been enough interest high enough up to go through what it would take to put it out, and that there isn’t an interest in releasing this content on Disney+ from Lucasfilm.”
Of course, the internet might disagree. As would fans upon hearing that there is a treasure trove of unreleased Star Wars content just… sitting there. “I just report the facts as I have them,” says Green flatly. If Green doesn’t seem too perturbed about the fact that all his work on the show has yet to find an audience, it’s because he can take comfort and pride in the fact that he got to do the work in the first place.
“I don’t really have an emotional position because I got to spend four straight years making something with George Lucas,” says Green. “And my partner and I, and all of the people that got to work on it — the artists and actors and directors and animators — we all got to make something Star Wars with the guy who created it. And so I know over those four years that he was having fun, and that’s really all I care about. I got a priceless experience with one of my truest heroes, and got to see him laugh and enjoy all of the things that he had created, in a time before he agreed to sell them to somebody else.”
That’s not to say Green wouldn’t love for Detours to see the light of day, but it doesn’t take away from the experience he had creating it: “It’s not that I don’t care if people never see it, it’s just that it ultimately doesn’t matter if nobody ever sees it, because nobody can take any of that from any of us. And that kind of thing would never happen again, and I recognize that.”
Detours also featured a voice cast that reportedly included Star Wars luminaries such as Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, and Ahmed Best as well as other famous folks like Zachary Levi, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Andy Richter, Seth McFarlane, Donald Faison, Felicia Day, and Joel McHale.
“I probably can’t confirm or deny [any names]” says Green, “but you literally wouldn’t believe the people that worked on this project in all categories.”
While the future of Star Wars Detours remains frustratingly unclear, Green feels the force was with them on making the show, even if he can’t use an old-fashioned Jedi mind trick to get Disney to finally release it.
“I like to think that we did the assignment well,” he says. “It’s just whether or not the assignment jibes with the current intent.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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He may be back voicing TODO 360 once again, this time in the smash hit The Bad Batch, but memories of his time working on Star Wars: Detours are never far away and Seth Green gives an update on the status of a show many are very interested in seeing with Entertainment Weekly.
“The most recent conversations I’ve had with anybody who would be in a position to say so say that it’s not soon,” says Green. Okay, but why?
“Well, there are 39 episodes that were finished for broadcast,” notes Green. “But we finished them almost 10 years ago, and so there would have to be a bit of reconfiguring of the existing stuff to make it something that Disney+ would release as a Lucasfilm offering. And the way it’s been explained to me is that there hasn’t been enough interest high enough up to go through what it would take to put it out, and that there isn’t an interest in releasing this content on Disney+ from Lucasfilm.”
Of course, the internet might disagree. As would fans upon hearing that there is a treasure trove of unreleased Star Wars content just… sitting there. “I just report the facts as I have them,” says Green flatly. If Green doesn’t seem too perturbed about the fact that all his work on the show has yet to find an audience, it’s because he can take comfort and pride in the fact that he got to do the work in the first place.
“I don’t really have an emotional position because I got to spend four straight years making something with George Lucas,” says Green. “And my partner and I, and all of the people that got to work on it — the artists and actors and directors and animators — we all got to make something Star Wars with the guy who created it. And so I know over those four years that he was having fun, and that’s really all I care about. I got a priceless experience with one of my truest heroes, and got to see him laugh and enjoy all of the things that he had created, in a time before he agreed to sell them to somebody else.”
That’s not to say Green wouldn’t love for Detours to see the light of day, but it doesn’t take away from the experience he had creating it: “It’s not that I don’t care if people never see it, it’s just that it ultimately doesn’t matter if nobody ever sees it, because nobody can take any of that from any of us. And that kind of thing would never happen again, and I recognize that.”
Detours also featured a voice cast that reportedly included Star Wars luminaries such as Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, and Ahmed Best as well as other famous folks like Zachary Levi, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Andy Richter, Seth McFarlane, Donald Faison, Felicia Day, and Joel McHale.
“I probably can’t confirm or deny [any names]” says Green, “but you literally wouldn’t believe the people that worked on this project in all categories.”
While the future of Star Wars Detours remains frustratingly unclear, Green feels the force was with them on making the show, even if he can’t use an old-fashioned Jedi mind trick to get Disney to finally release it.
“I like to think that we did the assignment well,” he says. “It’s just whether or not the assignment jibes with the current intent.”
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
Talking with the improvised comedy talk show The George Lucas Talk Show, "Weird Al" Yankovic, has revealed that he recorded music for Star Wars Detours, as well as voicing 4-Lom in the series.
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