Star Wars TV Series

[johnnystress]

The less Lucas has to do with the better

Star Wars creator George Lucas has said he has started work on a live-action TV series based on his sci-fi saga.

"It's about minor characters," he told the Los Angeles Times. "It's completely different. But it's a good idea, and it's going to be a lot of fun to do."

LucasFilm is also working on an animated TV series, expanded from its earlier Clone Wars shorts.

The half-hour cartoon series takes place between the events depicted in the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith films.

The live-action TV series will take place in the Star Wars universe but will not feature the Skywalker family, as had previously been suggested.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7048440.stm" target="_blank">Star Wars TV Series

[Funt Solo]

I hear that Lucas basically invented the technology required to manage his quiff.  Before Lucas, that magnitude of quiff simply wasn't possible.  He's currently working on a time machine, so that it's possible to go back in time and make sure that his quiff is up to scratch throughout all his incarnations on this earth.  (Plus, he's apparently going to work it so that his mother comes first during his conception scene.)

[TordelBack]

Y'see, I read that, and now I have to drive - not a good combination, I'm sure you'll appreciate.

[worldshown]

Some more info on Aintitcool.com

Link: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34451" target="_blank">Star Wars TV series goodness

[vzzbux]

The starwars website has the trailer for the clone wars and it looks awsome but my PC is playing up again so I cant post the link.


When this live action series was first envisioned a few years ago the little brat who played Boba Fett was lined up to continue his role.

So more figures to add to my collection. Bastard Lucas.


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[mogzilla]

i recently read somewhere that it will feature cameos of regular characters and there was a rumour and teaser poster that boba fett would play a part.

the cgi clone wars series looks ace!

[Funt Solo]

I read the stuff from Aintitcool.  It sounds shit.

[TordelBack]

It does sound shit, doesn't it?  Fanwank of the highest order, much like Revenge of the Sith, really, and a recycyling of ideas and speculations that have been doing the rounds for years.  The scary bit is that the best thing about recent Star Wars has always been the anticipation, teasers, trailers and leaks.  If they can't make this TV series sound exciting before they even make it, god help us.  

I also don't understand why the new Clone Wars stuff isn't going to be made in the same brilliant style of the first three seasons - IMHO the best of the Prequel material, and the only medium in which Anakin came across as remotely likeable or interesting.  'Course much of the fun with the CW cartoons were the hints of what was to come, including the awesome Nelvaanian 'Ghost Hand' vision sequence, which Lucas himself could ony dream of having created.  

[SIP]

'Revenge of the Sith' bashing again.....it's too much for me to take......

 .....must....fight....urge....to....defend....episode....3....

Oh sod it, 'Revenge of the Sith' is great, anyone who says otherwise is just plain wrong.

So there.

[judda fett]

Im sooo thick skinned now re- 'prequel bashing'. As a fan of 'some' of the 'expanded universe' I reckon the tv series will be great... Bounty hunters, space pirates, scumbags, galactic tyranny... Whats not to like?

[TordelBack]

Simon, I love Star Wars more than any gorwn man should, and RotS has much that is good about it (Superb opening 30 minutes, great lightsabre duel with lava backdrop, nice new planet in Utapau, emotion-tugging Order 66 sequence), but I can't get past the complete pointlessness of the three key moments that have plagued my dreams for 20 years - how did Obi-Wan defeat Vader?  What happened to Luke and Leia's mother? Why do Vader and the Emperor seem to discount Yoda?  None of these questions get any sort of an answer.  

Other than "how did Anakin fall?', which was admittedly answered even if it was in a pretty rushed fashion, and "what were the Clone Wars?", which had a good solid answer, I would have thought that these questions were the point of the whole Prequel enterprise, and RotS just failed to deliver.

If I could sum up my disapointment with the Prequels, it would come down to just one scene:  Padme dying for no good reason, just to tie up loose ends.  The fact that that scene is the climax of RotS damns that movie to 5th place (AotC takes 6th for its appalling love scenes).  Yes, you heard me right:  I prefer Phantom Menace to Revenge.  

[Funt Solo]

She died of a broken heart!

(Oh, for frog's bake!)

And:

Proto-Vader: "I've been having some doubts."
Proto-Emperor: "Kill lots of children."
Proto-Vader: "Okay then."

Yeah, sure - a great movie.

[judda fett]

I personally 'put up' with the love story, Ewoks, Jar Jar, plot holes and the like throughout both trilogys (and cant really defend 'em) because Im all about the evil Empire, bounty hunters and Sith Lords... and Tusken Raiders! If they got 'those' wrong I'd be a bit pissed off.

[JOE SOAP]

It's terrible when you realise the fact that the sole reason the Star Wars franchise continues to exist and Lucas still churns out this merchandise and fodder year after year is because in order for Lucas to continually fund his digital empire, there is a necessity for a major new Star Wars tie-in product to be released every 2 years.

Hence, after the films, plus the continuing games and comics, comes the T.V series which he can probably make cheaper and make even more money out of as it can continue for years and numerically produces more mielage of mediocre Star Wars "stories" for the dollar. Film is dead for Lucas because he can't make the massive savings and profits he'd like on such an expensive 2 hours of product anymore. Plus T.V. is a far better marketing tool than cinema.

If Lucasfilm didn't perpetually make Star Wars product -that provides the financial back up for digital facilities, games factory, studios et al., it may, and prabably would, lose it's foothold at the peak of the competitive world of the "digital" image industry to rival companies.

So the only reason Star Wars still has it's brand in our faces all the time is so Lucasfilm can be dominant in the digital cinema and soon, T.V. industry.

So much for heroic story ideals and defeating the empire.

[TordelBack]

While garageman is undoubtedly right, I'd be dishonest if I said that the prospect of no new Star Wars product wouldn't make me very unhappy.  Despite their many problems, I do enjoy the more recent novels, and the Knights of the Old Republic comic is quite excellent (if suffering a rough art patch lately).  There's life in the old dog yet, even if Lucas' motivations are less than pure...