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Filmmaker George Lucas arrives on the red carpet at the Ford's Theater official reopening celebration, marking the bicentennial of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's birthday, in Washington on February 11, 2009. Lucas will be honored with a Lincoln Medal. (UPI Photo/Alexis C. Glenn) 
Published: Jan. 28, 2010 at 9:35 PM

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- "Star Wars" creator George Lucas is gearing up to produce a big-screen, animated musical, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Little is known about the project, said to be in pre-production at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in California, other than that "TMNT" director Kevin Munroe is set to direct it based on a screenplay by "Elf" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles" scribe David Berenbaum.

Lucas has not directed a movie since "Revenge of the Sith" in 2005, but he wrote and is currently executive producing "Red Tails," an adventure movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American military pilots, the entertainment industry trade newspaper said.

Topics: George Lucas, The Hollywood Reporter
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