Lebo in Hollywood

The cover story in the August 6 TV Guide magazine begins:

A long time ago in a movie house far, far away–Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, to be exact– a little kid named Dave Filoni watched a reissue of “Star Wars” and went wild over a fleeting line of dialogue. “There’s a scene where Luke Skywalker says to Obi-Wan Kenobi, ‘You fought in the Clone Wars?’ and that got my imagination all fired up,” Filoni recalls. “My brother Mike and I were like, ‘Wow, there’s history here? Something called the Clone Wars came before Star Wars? And what the heck is a clone?’”

He would eventually find out in a very big way. In the ultimate dream of a Star Wars geek, Filoni—now 34—has taken the torch from grand master George Lucas and directed “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.” The CG-animated feature (opening August 15) is set between the events of “Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones” (2002) and “Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith” (2005). It follows the daring exploits of Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker as civil war rages between the Galactic Republic (led by the Jedi generals and their clone army) and the Confederacy of Independent Systems (the evil Separatists and their droid forces).

Read the whole thing.

Update: The Post-Gazette weighs in on this fantastic story.