On Mar 18, 10:26=A0am, Goro <evilnin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mar 17, 12:05 pm, David <dimla...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > from imdb
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> > Lucas Working on Sci-Fi Gangster Series
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> > 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.
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> found some GL quotes (/film):
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> "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."
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> "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."
If this is how they work, it explains how the prequel trilogy got to
be so bad, and why this new stuff will be even worse.
Casting comes last, he says. So there's no opportunity whatsoever for
the actors to influence anything, for chemistry amongst the actors to
influence anything, for casting mistakes to be corrected or minimized,
The actors are talking mannequins. If Lucas had the technology -- and
I'm sure he's actively working on it -- to use virtual actors, and
eliminate free will on the set entirely, I'm sure he would.
You can work this way in animation because viewers don't expect
characters be believable as people. Lucas really doesn't believe that
actors matter. We saw how even in the prequel movies he would heavily
post-process actors' performances. To whatever extent he still sees
moviemaking as a collaborative process, clearly the actors are not
among is chosen collaborators.
This will suck. It may not fail, because Lucas has enough money to
actually subsidize the syndication of his show if he wants to. But it
won't get good ratings, because it will be bad TV.
R
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