Seth Green says George Lucas will give Detours a public home at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, where a curation of episodes from the shelved Star Wars parody series will be displayed. The move turns material that never aired into part of the museum’s opening slate in September, after years in which the show was treated like lost inventory.
“There is going to be a curation of episodes of that show on display for the public,” Green said during San Diego Comic Con. He added, “We’ve lived long enough to see all the stuff that we were beaten for loving become the fine art of our day,” a neat summary of how the museum is positioning animation, comics and film as exhibition material rather than side content.
Detours and September
Detours was made in the early 2010s by Green and Matthew Senreich, then sat unreleased after the Walt Disney Co. bought Lucasfilm in 2012. That sequence explains the value of the museum display: it is not a new launch, but a recovery of work that never reached audiences in ordinary release form. For readers tracking the opening, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is scheduled for September, so the show’s public viewing will arrive as part of the museum’s first phase.
The museum’s film program is not being built around a single nostalgia play. Ryan Linkof said, “It will be the home for the kinds of art that we live with,” and Jim Lee called the approach “a very smart way of taking everything that is considered commercial art, art for the masses, or entertainment, and elevating to something else.” That is the operating logic here: the institution is using film and illustration spaces to treat popular media as gallery material, not as bonus programming.
Robert Flaherty Theater
Alongside Detours, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will use two theatres for non-stop shorts and movies across more than 33 galleries and 100,000 square feet of exhibition space. The Robert Flaherty Theater will lean documentary, with films about artists whose work is exhibited in the museum, including Norman Rockwell, Jim Lee, Charles Schulz, Maurice Sendak, Diego Rivera, J.C. Leyendecker and Weegee, plus Comic Book Confidential directed by Robert Mann.
The effect is broader than a single screened curation. The museum is building a public archive around popular-image makers, so Detours is arriving inside a larger argument about what belongs in a serious exhibition space. Readers who want the full picture should watch the September opening for the first chance to see how much of the shelved series is actually placed on display; the announcement leaves one practical question hanging over the exhibit floor: which episodes will be shown.
Slavko Vorkapich Theater
The Slavko Vorkapich Theater widens that frame with early silent films by Georges Méliès, Émile Cohl, W.K.L. Dickson and Edwin S. Porter, early animations by Winsor McCay, Looney Tunes, anime from Cowboy Bebop, an episode of Star Wars: Visions and student films from 1965 to 1969 by George Lucas. For readers following the museum’s film slate, that mix makes Green’s reveal part of an opening lineup built to link commercial entertainment with museum-grade curation. George Lucas Drives 2027 LEGO Star Wars Original Trilogy Wave
Green’s update gives the museum an early distinction before it opens: it is not just screening finished classics, but rescuing a shelved series that was widely assumed to be out of circulation. When the doors open in September, the real test will be whether the public sees a token sample or a meaningful run of Detours episodes.
