Family Guy and Star Wars

Mr E

Heh... sounds like fun.

The Force is with "Family Guy."
Fox's animated hit will kick off its fifth season this fall with an hourlong episode that retells the "Star Wars" saga using "Family Guy" characters.

Lucasfilm has blessed the event, which will have the Griffin family acting out all the key scenes and narrative from "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope," the first installment of the franchise. "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane is a major "Star Wars" fan and was personally involved in getting Lucasfilm on board, an exec from 20th Century Fox TV said.

Family patriarch Peter Griffin will play the role of Han Solo, while mom Lois will appear as Princess Leia. Evil baby Stewie will be Darth Vader, natch.

Brian the family dog will serve as Chewbacca, while son Chris is Luke. Robots R2-D2 and C-3PO will be handled by Cleveland and Quagmire, respectively, while creepy old guy Herbert plays Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Plot of the episode has the Griffin family stuck at home during a blackout. With no TV to entertain them, Peter decides to tell a story -- leading to the "Star Wars" flashback.

Planning for the seg began more than a year ago. MacFarlane wasset to show off footage from the episode at the "Star Wars" mega-convention in Los Angeles.

MacFarlane and the "Family Guy" writers have shown a strong interest in "Star Wars," serving up several mini-spoofs of the franchise in years past.

In addition to the "Star Wars" tribute, "Family Guy" will mark its 100th episode next season with a two-part special set to air in November.

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AlmightyCushion

Stewie would make a great darth vader. Plus that creepy old guy would be quite funny as obi wan. Hopefully it's good.

aequinoctium

will family guy series 4 & 5 ever be shown on irish/british television?

Mossy Monk

It is already being shown on BBC3.

aequinoctium

how does one get BBC3?

Creamy Goodness

isn't family guy like more than half way through it's fifth tv season?

User45701

its finished its 5th season (US) and that means season 7 for ireland has been aired in the us so it will be on dvd soon.

What i cant wait for is this family guy star wars and also the robot chicken star wars is out in 3 weeks thats a feature legenth star wars spoof as well

Mossy Monk

aequinoctium wrote:

how does one get BBC3?

Digital satellite or digital cable.

~Rebel~

i dunno if i like the idea of this..in theory it sounds great, but anytime the simpsons tried this thing of retelling stories with their own characters its just not funny..

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

when south park did it, it was hilarious. They did 'high expectations' or whatever it's called, by that dickens squirrel.

they did take a few liberties with the story though.... don't recall ms havishim having a life sucking machine to immortalise her adopted daughter so she could go on breaking mens hearts forever. But imo it just added to the story.

Pigman II

Sounds like a load of bollox. Parodying Star Wars is just lazy in this day and age. Any moron could knock together a bunch of puns and sight gags in a minute, but then I guess that's why FG are doing it?

Also, Stewie's character is more suited to played the Emperor rather than Darth Vader, who lets face it was just a stooge.

User45701

Chris would be vader because he was vader in a earlier episode sitting in his room having vaders head lowered onto him