On Mar 17, 12:05 pm, David <dimla...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> from imdb
>
> Lucas Working on Sci-Fi Gangster Series
>
> George Lucas is working on a new live-action Star Wars series for
> television that is being described as Deadwood meets The Sopranos in
> outer space, the New York Post reported today (Monday), citing a
> report that appeared on the sci-fi website collider.com. Lucas's
> primary Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and
> Darth Vader, will not appear in the series, the newspaper said. The
> Post said that Lucas has held talks with HBO about carrying the series
> and has also approached at least one broadcast network, but he has yet
> to make a deal. The newspaper did not explain the reasons for the
> broadcast and cable networks' reluctance, especially since the Star
> Wars movies represent the most successful film franchise in history.
> Lucas is also working on an animated TV series, The Clone Wars, which
> is also based on the Star Wars tales.
found some GL quotes (/film):
"The live-action has [none of the characters from the Star Wars
movies], because it's after Episode III, so everybody's dead,
basically, or hiding somewhere. You hear about the Emperor, just like
you do in Episode IV, but it's mostly about a whole different world. I
mean, there are a million stories in the big city -- you've only seen
one of them," laughs Lucas. "Some of the characters from the features
find their way in there, so it's not completely divorced. It's as if
we just went down the street and told a different story. You know, we
were doing, I don't know, 24, and now we're going to move down the
street here and do The Wire. Same thing, it's just different people
doing the same thing in the same city."
"I'm just starting to work on the scripts now for the live-action TV
series. We finished the first year of Clone Wars, [and] we're in the
middle of working on the second year. I'm finishing the scripts for
the third year. And now I'm working on the scripts for the first year
of the live-action show. [Smiles] So it's a lot of scripts," Lucas
told EW. "...What we do in our TV series is we write the entire first
year and finish it as a script. Then we start getting ready to shoot
it, then we start casting, and then we do it. We know where the whole
first year is before we even start to work on it. I mean, I can do
that because I'm financing the whole thing. So I've got it pegged out
for 100 episodes, and I know exactly what I'm going to do and how I'm
going to do it and what the risks are." "The live-action TV series
probably won't go on until around 2010. It'll take this year just to
get through all the scripts and then another year to get them all
shot."
So now he's invoking 24 and THE WIRE. Yeah, we'll see.
-goro-
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