Weird Al Says He Recorded Music For The Unreleased Star Wars Detours Show
Musical comedian Weird Al Yankovic recently revealed that he recorded music for an episode of Star WarsDetours, a show which Disney has yet to release since acquiring Lucasfilm. Yankovic has been producing music since the late 70s and came to fame making musical parodies of popular songs, often with the help of his signature accordion. He's been influential to many a comedy nerd's upbringing and has appeared in a number of live-action and animated projects, co-hosted Comedy Bang Bang, and lent his vocal talents to everything from Batman: The Brave and the Bold to BoJack Horseman. He's been prominent enough to warrant the movie treatment, with a fittingly oddball biopic starring Daniel Radcliffe as the musician now in post-production.
Detours was a CGI animated parody series from Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich set in the time between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy. Almost 40 six-minute episodes of the series were completely finished, with an additional sixty-two written and ready to be made. The show featured fan-favorite characters C-3PO and Lando Calrissian (voiced by original actors Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams) among others, alongside new characters voiced by Joel McHale, Felicia Day, Donald Faison, and Zachary Levi. Although the series was made with the close supervision and input of Lucas himself, and a trailer was released at Star Wars Celebration VI, it was shelved indefinitely after the Disney acquisition in 2012. Green has said serious edits would need to be done to Detours to make it relevant today, which is why it remains in the vault.
OnThe George Lucas Talk Show (via Comicbook), Yankovic confirmed he had written and recorded songs for a musical episode of the
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