Now come reports of a possible Star Wars television series as early as 2006...
Full Version: Star Wars on TV?
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| Since last year George Lucas has been dropping hints regarding the possibility of a TV series. Today they are no longer hints. On USA Today, the TV series was confirmed by Lucas and now most recently the President of Lucas licensing, Howard Roffman, has quoted stating that a live action TV Series will indeed hit airwaves by fall of 2006. |
Hmmm...couldn't find anything on the USA Today website, and Google News had no relevant results. Also nothing at starwars.com.
I did find this article, but it's just quoting the IESB piece.
Comments at Slashdot are mixed, with other folks mirror my comment above ("WHAT USA Today piece?")
HOWEVER, on 9/11, Mark Hamill is quoted in another Slashdot piece mentioning a TV show--also unsubstantiated.
I think it might be a spin-off of the 7,8,9 rumors--i.e. not true.
I did find this article, but it's just quoting the IESB piece.
Comments at Slashdot are mixed, with other folks mirror my comment above ("WHAT USA Today piece?")
HOWEVER, on 9/11, Mark Hamill is quoted in another Slashdot piece mentioning a TV show--also unsubstantiated.
I think it might be a spin-off of the 7,8,9 rumors--i.e. not true.
Hey but here are some fun ideas for Star Wars TV shows, posted on Slashdot:
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A new story on Kevin Smith's site throws fuel on the fire of rumors that Smith and Mark Hamill are working on the pilot episode of the Star Wars television series.
More exciting than any of the Revenge of the Sith rumors...
Mark Hamill might actually be in front of the cameras again in this series ... as an aging Luke Skywalker!
Why am I getting excited about a Star Wars television series? BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN LUCAS WOULD BE DIRECTING THEM.
Story here.
Mark Hamill might actually be in front of the cameras again in this series ... as an aging Luke Skywalker!
Why am I getting excited about a Star Wars television series? BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN LUCAS WOULD BE DIRECTING THEM.
Story here.
Is it just me, or does this sound VERY boring? A Skywalker Smallville destined for WB?
I was hoping they'd shoot for POST Jedi excitement, but, alas, I didn't reckon on the Lucas STUPIDITY factor (like the rumored 3D format).
Star Wars TV spin-off aims for 100 episodes (The Register)
Producers of a TV spin-off of the Star Wars films reckon it will run for 100 episodes. Producer Rick McCallum told BBC Radio 1 that writing will shortly begin on the project, which will begin filming in 2008 ready for transmission in the same year.
The series is set between Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars IV: A New Hope and covers the early years of Luke Skywalker. So, unless the writers decide to rewrite the Star Wars story arc, expect lots of scenes of farming on the desert world of Tatooine. Or perhaps not. McCallum said the series would introduce new characters and be "much more dramatic and darker" than the films.
I was hoping they'd shoot for POST Jedi excitement, but, alas, I didn't reckon on the Lucas STUPIDITY factor (like the rumored 3D format).
Star Wars TV spin-off aims for 100 episodes (The Register)
Producers of a TV spin-off of the Star Wars films reckon it will run for 100 episodes. Producer Rick McCallum told BBC Radio 1 that writing will shortly begin on the project, which will begin filming in 2008 ready for transmission in the same year.
The series is set between Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars IV: A New Hope and covers the early years of Luke Skywalker. So, unless the writers decide to rewrite the Star Wars story arc, expect lots of scenes of farming on the desert world of Tatooine. Or perhaps not. McCallum said the series would introduce new characters and be "much more dramatic and darker" than the films.
Lame lameness of the lamety-lame-lame lamest lameness.
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alas, I didn't reckon on the Lucas STUPIDITY factor
You don't know the power of the Dark Side!!!!
This'll be better than that Ewok cartoon that came on Friday nights when I was a kid.
Sigh. Once again, the original Star Wars trilogy will be undermined with nonsensical chronology. I thought that the fact that in the first film Luke was complaining about how he wanted to "get off this rock" indicated that nothing interesting EVER happens on Tatooine. It'll be a boring series indeed.
Whatever happened to this idea? It sounded cool to me. Imagine a series about the re-creation of the Jedi Order. It could feature all sorts of new heroes and villains who can be spawned from the breakdown of the Empire's power and the re-institution of the Republic.
Or we could all just break out the Firefly box sets instead.
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More exciting than any of the Revenge of the Sith rumors...
Mark Hamill might actually be in front of the cameras again in this series ... as an aging Luke Skywalker!
Why am I getting excited about a Star Wars television series? BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN LUCAS WOULD BE DIRECTING THEM.
Mark Hamill might actually be in front of the cameras again in this series ... as an aging Luke Skywalker!
Why am I getting excited about a Star Wars television series? BECAUSE SOMEONE OTHER THAN LUCAS WOULD BE DIRECTING THEM.
Whatever happened to this idea? It sounded cool to me. Imagine a series about the re-creation of the Jedi Order. It could feature all sorts of new heroes and villains who can be spawned from the breakdown of the Empire's power and the re-institution of the Republic.
Or we could all just break out the Firefly box sets instead.
I predict lots of Tashi station and power-converter issues.
Oh, and flying through swamps kill rats.
I know! Maybe it'll be a musical series (lyrics, Steve?), with Luke singing about bluebirds flying beyond the rainbow, while Aunt Em and Uncle Henry...oh, no--that's been done.
Oh, and flying through swamps kill rats.
I know! Maybe it'll be a musical series (lyrics, Steve?), with Luke singing about bluebirds flying beyond the rainbow, while Aunt Em and Uncle Henry...oh, no--that's been done.
Some more news on the two series that Lucasfilm is preparing for TV, although not much detail.
TV Guide Online Interview with George Lucas
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Lucas Financing 200 Star Wars-related TV Episodes
George Lucas says that his upcoming animated series The Clone Wars is so far removed from typical animated TV fare that "we're still trying to figure out how to put it on the air." In an interview with the online edition of TV Guide, Lucas said that the series would be rated PG-13 if it were a movie. "Everybody's got the same conundrums -- 'How do we program it? Where does it live? Where can we put something like this?" You know, it has to go [on the air] after 9:00 p.m. and it can't be on a kiddie channel." But while the series doesn't fit into a convenient "niche" for advertisers and programmers, Lucas said, "It's Star Wars and it's really good, so I'm sure somehow or another, people will also start thinking outside the box and it will find its home." Lucas indicated that he is independently financing 100 episodes of the animated series as well as 100 episodes of a live-action Star Wars-based series that has not yet begun shooting. "We're just doing them on the faith that we're going to [sell them]," he told TV Guide. "But I have enough confidence that this is good, and I'll make it really good, so I'm not too worried about that part of it."
George Lucas says that his upcoming animated series The Clone Wars is so far removed from typical animated TV fare that "we're still trying to figure out how to put it on the air." In an interview with the online edition of TV Guide, Lucas said that the series would be rated PG-13 if it were a movie. "Everybody's got the same conundrums -- 'How do we program it? Where does it live? Where can we put something like this?" You know, it has to go [on the air] after 9:00 p.m. and it can't be on a kiddie channel." But while the series doesn't fit into a convenient "niche" for advertisers and programmers, Lucas said, "It's Star Wars and it's really good, so I'm sure somehow or another, people will also start thinking outside the box and it will find its home." Lucas indicated that he is independently financing 100 episodes of the animated series as well as 100 episodes of a live-action Star Wars-based series that has not yet begun shooting. "We're just doing them on the faith that we're going to [sell them]," he told TV Guide. "But I have enough confidence that this is good, and I'll make it really good, so I'm not too worried about that part of it."
TV Guide Online Interview with George Lucas
Animated 'Star Wars' to hit theaters
Another "Star Wars" tale is on its way to the bigscreen, but it won't be distributed by Fox.
Lucasfilm has partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures and Turner Broadcasting on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," a 3-D toon that will bow in theaters this August before moving to the smallscreen in the fall. The Aug. 15 feature will set the stage for the spinoff skein, which will bow on Cartoon Network, followed by airings on TNT. International release dates for the feature and TV series are still being set.
Multiplatform project is an expansion of the earlier "Clone Wars" microseries that aired on Cartoon Network. However, Fox's homevid arm released those episodes on DVD, just as it has distributed every "Star Wars" theatrical release since 1977. . . .
Variety, February 11
Another "Star Wars" tale is on its way to the bigscreen, but it won't be distributed by Fox.
Lucasfilm has partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures and Turner Broadcasting on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," a 3-D toon that will bow in theaters this August before moving to the smallscreen in the fall. The Aug. 15 feature will set the stage for the spinoff skein, which will bow on Cartoon Network, followed by airings on TNT. International release dates for the feature and TV series are still being set.
Multiplatform project is an expansion of the earlier "Clone Wars" microseries that aired on Cartoon Network. However, Fox's homevid arm released those episodes on DVD, just as it has distributed every "Star Wars" theatrical release since 1977. . . .
Variety, February 11
Colour me utterly unimpressed.
Yet another story on the suppose-ed live action Star Wars TV-series. I thought early reports indicated Lucas was just going to shoot the series and then find a distributor. Now there's all this talk of Lucas trying to hash out deals with HBO and other networks.
Story here.
What is Hutteese for "fuggidaboudit"?
QUOTE (New York Post)
'Star Wars" creator George Lucas is reportedly at work on a new, live-action TV series with the tantalizing description: "Deadwood" meets "The Sopranos" in outer space.
Story here.
What is Hutteese for "fuggidaboudit"?
Variety reviews the television show.
Make this happen!
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Pegg Eyes Star Wars Job
1 August 2008 5:24 AM, PDT
British actor Simon Pegg wants to write a new Star Wars story - if he can make friends with director George Lucas.
The Shaun of the Dead star is a huge fan of the sci-fi films, but has criticised 1999 prequel movie The Phantom Menace.
Now he has his heart set on working for the forthcoming TV series of the legendary franchise - but fears he has made himself an enemy of the production company with his comments.
Pegg says, "I might try to wheedle my way back into the affections of Lucasfilm (Lucas' production company) and write an episode of the new live action Star Wars TV series."
1 August 2008 5:24 AM, PDT
British actor Simon Pegg wants to write a new Star Wars story - if he can make friends with director George Lucas.
The Shaun of the Dead star is a huge fan of the sci-fi films, but has criticised 1999 prequel movie The Phantom Menace.
Now he has his heart set on working for the forthcoming TV series of the legendary franchise - but fears he has made himself an enemy of the production company with his comments.
Pegg says, "I might try to wheedle my way back into the affections of Lucasfilm (Lucas' production company) and write an episode of the new live action Star Wars TV series."
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