Star Wars the television series

rsstites · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:36 pm Post subject: Star Wars the television series

Lucas mentioned last year that he was making two Star Wars television shows. The first was a Cartoon Network animated show that is already on, and the other was a live action show that would take place in-between episodes III and IV.

Here's the story from StarWars.com.

"Not the first question, but probably the one most anticipated by fans was about the future of Star Wars on television. "You know we're doing a pilot television series now called Clone Wars," said Lucas. "Well we're going to take that and turn it into a 3-D animated version full series." Lucas described the episodes as being 30 minutes in length.

"We're also working on a spin-off series," he added, "with some characters who have appeared before that will be a live action series. We're probably not going to start that for about a year. Like on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, we want to write all the stories for the entire first season all at once. I'm going to get it started, and hire the show runners and all of that, then I'll probably step away." Even host Jay Laga'aia had a hard time concentrating after that news.

Elaborating on the television series' setting in the chronology of the saga, Lucas explained that the idea currently in development takes place between Episodes III and IV. "There's none of the main characters from I, II, and III (or IV, V and VI for that matter) in the..." he stopped in mid-sentence. "Well, actually, that's not exactly true now that I think about it. We haven't really started the TV show, so it's hard to answer. There's a lot of issues that are connected, but you won't necessarily see a lot of the people that are connected."

A fan asked the chances of exploring the KOTOR-era Jedi or the origins of the Sith on TV, and Lucas stated that if the television projects are successful, he would examine the possibility of moving elsewhere in the saga."

It's getting pretty close to a year, so he should be starting on it soon.

wolf · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject:

i have seen this show like once or twice

rsstites · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

I assume you're talking about the cartoon version.

Has anybody heard anything about the live action series?

rsstites · Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:21 am Post subject:

*bump*

We've had two other people bring this up. I just wanted to remind everyone that you heard it here first on 1/23/06.