Was A Star Wars Animated Series Set Prior to Episode VII In the Works?

An IMDb user claiming to be a laid-off Lucasfilm employee has released some information regarding a Star Wars animated series that either was, or still may be, in the early stages of production following the cancellation of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The pages are available at TheForce.net, but as they're purported to be internal Lucasfilm documents, we'll just give you the gist without reprinting them, so that if Disney wants those who are hosting the images to take them down, this story stands on its own without them. The images below are from the official Star Wars 1313 website.

The employee seemed to know little about the status of the project, and from his language sounds as though he was probably pretty low on the "need-to-know" food chain, but the pages he uploaded--appearing to part of a formal series pitch--provide a fascinating look at what could be (or could have been) an official part of the Star Wars universe set in a time that's likely between Return of the Jedi and J.J. Abrams's Star Wars Episode VII. By the front page of the work, it's claimed that the series was intended "to introduce the audience to themes and characters pivotal to Episode VII and beyond." That, honestly, may be the part that makes the whole thing a little hard to swallow. ComicBook.com has reached out to Disney for confirmation as to whether this is (or ever was) an in-development project at Lucasfilm.

The series will (or would have) featured, among others, Kala Calrissian and Leia Organa, with the latter being an aging and widely respected veteran of the Rebellion. It may have tied together in some way with the recently-cancelled Star Wars 1313 video game, as it refers to Kala as baing "on Coruscant on an odd job the day of the 1313 Uprising." That's a part of the pitch that recurs, with Leia and others assembled at the beginning of the story to discuss a truce, only to be attacked by droids issueing from Level 1313 under Coruscant. The files were added to a conversation on the IMDb message boards regarding the involvement of The Clone Wars's Dave Filoni in Lucasfilm's next Star Wars animation. "Might be talking about this," said user Fantasmographer. "We'd been working on details of it since early last year but didn't know the details until a few months ago. Got the green light in January but stopped everything when the layoffs hit. I could probably get in trouble, but oh wait, i don't work there anymore. Who knows if this is the same project though? Everything was dicey."