New episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars are back on television this Wednesday at 8:00pm with the debut of “The Landing at Point Rain” on Cartoon Network. Unless Lucas finally gets his ass in gear on that long-promised but little delivered live-action Star Wars TV show, or unless those wild rumors about a new trilogy turn out to be true, this is pretty much your only way to get a Star Wars fix. Eat it up.

“The Landing at Point Rain” sounds as if it’s more than just a standard Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode. Director Brian Kalin O’Connell says of it, “George [Lucas] wanted ‘Landing at Point Rain’ to be as intense as any live-action movie about the assault on Omaha Beach”

Below we have a clip from “The Landing at Point Rain”. Here’s a taste of what you’re in for after the jump. more...

It's the first full length trailer for George Lucas's new animated Star Wars movie. If lightsabers and lasers are your thing, then this is the trailer for you. If lightsabers and lasers aren't your thing, then what the heck are you doing visiting a science fiction site? Behold the power of the animated Force:

I feel like every time I write about this movie I have to explain it. Yes, it's Star Wars. No Ewan McGregor isn't in it. It's animated Star Wars. Yes it's a movie. No not a made for TV movie. A real movie. Computer animated. You know, like The Incredibles.

Now this Star Wars movie, whatever it is has a poster. Maybe it'll make it all a little clearer.