Lucas plans Star Wars TV spin-off

[VonDondu]

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Lucas plans Star Wars TV spin-off

Guardian Unlimited
Staff and agencies
Thursday March 16, 2006

And you thought the Star Wars saga finished with Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Wrong you were, my youngling friend.

George Lucas and his team are currently hard at work on a Star Wars live-action TV series. It will be set between the end of Revenge of the Sith and the beginning of Episode IV: A New Hope. The plot would centre on Luke Skywalker's early years growing up on Tatooine.

Yesterday, producer Rick McCallum announced the tale would be spun over at least 100 hours. "Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody's excited and watches it, we will keep on going," McCallum told BBC Radio 1. A writing team will start sweating on a script soon, with filming scheduled to begin in 2008 for transmission later the same year.

McCallum said there would be "a whole bunch of new characters" and the series would be "much more dramatic and darker". The actors from the films are not expected to take up their roles again.

The live-action TV series is not the only spin-off in the offing. Last year, at a Star Wars fans' convention in Indianapolis, Lucas also said he was preparing a 3D animated TV series called Clone Wars, about the battle led by Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and other Jedi knights against the army of the Republic at the end of Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Clone Wars is based on an existing animated series, made up of five-minute episodes, broadcast on the Cartoon Network TV channel. It is set to be ready next year.

Before work on the live-action TV series can begin, Lucas needs to work on his long-cherished project Red Tails, a drama about African-American pilots in the second world war. He has also just approved the script to Indiana Jones 4, which will see the return of Harrison Ford at the whip and Steven Spielberg in the director's chair.

[Siberys]

As Darth Vadar would say in episode 3....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Seriously, George Lucas did everything in his power to screw up episodes one and two and finally came back with a much nicer, and much more decent Episode 3.

Now he's making a TV show, gods, what is wrong with him. Luke grew up on tatooine with a mediocre job never knowing anyhting about Obi Wan Kenobi being a Jedi.

Just no, this will most likely be horrendous.

[Hill-Shatar]

The TV series was brought up at length in this interview here. Might be worth reading.

[pitfalllarry]

I'm torn...I love Star Wars so much, but am so afraid it would suck

[Hill-Shatar]

Well, we'll really have to wait a while for this one to come to happen, since the Script writer, George Lucas, is currently working on Indiana Jones, and then he goes onto another project soon after, before he moves on to supposedly 100 episodes of the show.