Star Wars series (live)

[petergriffin246]

it will probobaly only have about 13 episodes anyway.

[OBSERVER]

They planned to do 100 episodes.

[Alien]

Don't all TV shows plan 100 episodes or more, it all depends on the ratings.

[Tolkien]

If it's good, it'll probably have good ratings. All of the SW losers will come out.

lmmfao... Yeah, that means me too.

[HaDoKen]

Maybe they should show things like-

Obi Wan's training on Tatooine that Yoda tells him to do at the end of EP III

WHY Qui Gonn's body didnt disappear when he died

Boba Fett training to become a bounty hunter

Luke dusting crops

Beggers Canyon. What the hell is it?

Han Solo borrowing money from Jabba then losing it all in one bet.

Uncle Owen making Luke his ***** for not doing his chores

R2-D2 and C-3PO being good friends

Leia making it out with pilots in their cockpits

[Alien]

^^ Good list of things to stay away from. If the show is nothing to do with main characters from the movies never ever meet up for them for more than an episode.

[HaDoKen]

Originally Posted by Alien

^^ Good list of things to stay away from. If the show is nothing to do with main characters from the movies never ever meet up for them for more than an episode.

Be better if Lucas could leave Star Wars for good.

[Alien]

But that's his only money maker and it can only make so much money before you need to make more. That's why he's doing Indie 4 as well.

[HaDoKen]

Before Star Wars EP III was made I always had a vision the Lucas would be assassinated by Star Wars haters to get at the die hard Star Wars fans by not have EP III made, and if someone else tired to make it , it would never of been the true version Lucas wanted and it'll be funny seeing the die hard Star Wars fans life go down

[Ewok Droppings]

Originally Posted by HaDoKen

Before Star Wars EP III was made I always had a vision the Lucas would be assassinated by Star Wars haters to get at the die hard Star Wars fans by not have EP III made, and if someone else tired to make it , it would never of been the true version Lucas wanted and it'll be funny seeing the die hard Star Wars fans life go down

That's... disturbing.

[Spidey2DocOck]

Originally Posted by HaDoKen

Beggers Canyon. What the hell is it?

Didn't they have something about this in original book{the one based on ANH}?




Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

[HaDoKen]

Originally Posted by Ewok Droppings

That's... disturbing.

No its not...

[Ewok Droppings]

Hate to bump an old thread like this - but rumblings and rumors are starting to surface and I was just reading this article which is almost a year old at this point:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...rom=public_rss

Originally Posted by theAustralian

Saga's far, far from over

Michael Bodey | August 13, 2008

GEORGE Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, caught many in the Sydney filmmaking community on the hop last week when he announced that he intended to make a Star Wars television series in the harbour city. The NSW Government was unable to confirm the news or even manipulate any publicity from it, which was distressing for an administration on the hunt for positive news.

But Lucas's right-hand man, Star Wars producer Rick McCallum, has been a regular presence at Sydney's Fox Studios. That alone should have given a hint that Star Wars would return here after shooting the final two prequels, Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Another clue could have been Lucas's love affair with the city and its crews. As he told me in 2005: "I'm looking forward to coming back and working there some more soon."

"Sydney has some of the most wonderful film crews in the world and I've worked all over the world," he added. "I've always referred to Sydney as the most un-foreign foreign place I've been to. It's very much like San Francisco (Lucas's home town)."

And Sydney wants him back, desperately. After a flood of international blockbusters, including The Matrix and its sequels and the Star Wars films, Sydney's film studio has struggled to attract regular international productions. Two Sydneysiders in particular have kept the film studio occupied during the past year. But Hugh Jackman's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Baz Luhrmann's Australia are near completion. Fox Studios will be largely empty then.

Lucas confirmed last week at his Big Rock ranch outside San Francisco, the site of his new animation studio, that his live action TV series is going ahead. "We're in the process of writing screenplays right now," he said.

Although the series is unlikely to go into production until 2009-10, the Australian screen production industry can't wait, given Star Wars III helped propel the country to a record level of film drama production of $449million in 2003-04. Up to 700 people in NSW were employed for the first film and 300 for the second. A long-running TV series has the added attraction of employing cast and crew for longer periods.

The truth is, Star Wars barely left Sydney after wrapping filming here in 2003. Lucas's comments were a warning to the NSW Government that the ball was in its court. Despite ongoing negotiations, the state Government only needs to make sure the numbers add up to Lucas's satisfaction.

Lucas and McCallum have hired three Australian screenwriters to work on what is believed to be the first 22 episodes of a Clone Wars live-action TV series.

And in a daring creative move, Lucas has moved out of his comfort zone by hiring three Sydneysiders not known for science fiction writing: Tony McNamara, Fiona Seres and Louise Fox. The three have distinguished records in adult dramas, most particularly as co-writers on the acclaimed drama series, Love My Way.

McNamara is also known for his stage works for the Sydney Theatre Company, including The Recruit, The Unlikely Prospect of Happiness and, most recently, The Great; and as a screenwriter and director of the feature film The Rage in Placid Lake.

Seres has co-written recent adult dramas, including pay TV's Dangerous and Satisfaction. Fox has written for comedy series such as Full Frontal and Comedy Inc, as well as the acclaimed children's series Round the Twist.

Their commission hints at a Star Wars that's very different from the films and animated series. While Sydney has become known inside Hollywood as a top-class city in which to film science fiction - thanks to the expertise local crews developed on Star Wars, The Matrix and Farscape - McNamara, Seres and Fox have no obvious sci-fi experience. They're learning fast, though. All three were in the US last week attending a Star Wars convention and were restricted from comment by Lucasfilm.

The greatest criticism levelled at the Star Wars world has been its clunky dialogue, usually the work of Lucas. To be fair, a novel galaxy inhabited by robots, aliens and humans inhabited by something called the Force was not a showcase for sparkling repartee. Already there are rumours that Lucas wants a grittier, darker Star Wars for the TV series.

Lucas is under no illusions that scripting a live action series will be a doddle. "It's going to take a while because it's really hard to do," he says.

This week's release of the animated feature Star Wars: The Clone Wars is the second step in the extension of his Star Wars universe. After six Star Wars movies, Lucas is in his footnote phase, with Star Wars: The Clone Wars a prequel to Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and an addition to the animated series of the same name that has screened on pay TV's the Cartoon Network and will continue for a planned 100 episodes. As far back as 2002, Lucas was talking about the prospect of a series set between the second and third episodes of the feature film prequels, essentially away from the Skywalker family and expanding on the worlds of some of the bit players of the film series.

He began by establishing Lucasfilm Animation operations in California and Singapore, then - in an act of folly or supreme commercial confidence - produced 22 episodes of the animated series before pitching it to any broadcasters.

With rumoured budgets of $US750,000 ($855,000) to $US1.5 million, it was some gamble, particularly when no broadcasters bit. Arguably, the wooden animation of The Clone Wars lessened its appeal, although Lucas was adamant he didn't want photorealistic animation "because photorealistic is what live action movies are. Animation is art." The Warner Bros studio took up the series for its Cartoon Network provided Lucas would provide an accompanying animated feature film.

Clearly the investment by Warner Bros was an attempt to wrest Lucas's future series or properties, particularly the juicier prospect of a live action Star Wars series, from long-time distribution partner 20th Century Fox (owned by News Corporation, which also publishes The Australian). The Australian understands Warner Bros has helped LucasFilm do the sums on production in Australia, although it is expected to contribute as a distributor of the TV series only if Lucas again self-produces.

Lucas told sci-fi website io9.com last week that The Clone Wars animated series was a "test-run for the live action series I'm working on". "I'm trying to take Star Wars, which was a $US50 million an hour adventure, and do it for $US2 million an hour," he added. "It's hard to do that and have them look the same."

Indeed, it will be hard for Lucas to replicate his previous Star Wars successes with any of the upcoming projects. Certainly, some critics are already lining up against Lucas, emboldened by his flat renewal of the Indiana Jones series with Steven Spielberg.

"These days Lucas sounds like a museum curator, fussing with dusty memorabilia," The Los Angeles Times' Patrick Goldstein wrote. "It's time he challenged himself. If he has any inspiration left, he shouldn't waste it on exploiting something old when he could put it to use dreaming up something new."

It may be premature, but the appointment of three interesting Australian screenwriters to explore another Star Wars world could be an intriguing new dream of something old.

[Ewok Droppings]

This is a couple year bump - but for those interested in what ever happened to the live action Star Wars series - well:

Originally Posted by The director that killed Star Wars

The live action TV show is kind of on hold because we have scripts, but we don’t know how to do them. They literally are Star Wars, only we’re going to have to try to do them at a tenth the cost. And it’s a huge challenge, a lot bigger than what we thought it was gonna be.

http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-l...on-hold-again/

[Ramplate]

Wow, maybe they'll even have another Star Wars Holiday special before Diahann Carroll dies.
http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/

[Deexan]

Den of Geek got a chance to talk to Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum about the proposed live-action "Star Wars" TV series.

He told the site things we've heard before: "The TV series we have spent three and a half years on and there are 50 hours totally scripted... Well, they’re all second draft scripts and it would probably take a year of prep before shooting would start, but that’s because they’re all very complex."

But when McCallum talked about whether the show could air on a network or on a cable channel, he dropped this bit: "Our biggest problem is that these stories are adult. I mean…these are like Deadwood in space. [It's] so unlike anything you’ve ever associated with George before in relation to Star Wars. These aren't for kids. I mean, we hope they’ll watch, but it's not being targeted at 8-to-9 year old boys. The situation we have is that each episode – or if you put two hour long episodes together – is bigger than any film we've ever done. It's on the Avatar level and we'll only have about $5-6 million we can spend on each episode."

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=91020

[sshuttari]

Sounds interesting I don't know how I feel about a Adult Star Wars TV Show. But hey can't be worst then the prequels...

[JBond]

Or it could.

[sshuttari]

Why do you have to ruin a good thing JBond

[Neverending]

I hope it's on HBO and someone takes off the golden bikini.

[Alien]

Have anyone heard the way they are talking about the new Star Wars 1313 game? It sounds to me like they turned some of the live action show into a game instead.

[Tolkien]

That's what I got when I saw the E3 panel too. 1313 sounds interesting, but I'm very cautious regarding anything from the SW universe anymore. Very, very cautious.

[Fresh Prince]

So the live action show is still a go? What network you think would be best for it?

[Neverending]

Showtime.

[JBond]

Fx.