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says...
> On Mar 18, 10:26 am, Goro <evilnin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Mar 17, 12:05 pm, David <dimla...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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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.
> >
> > 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."
>
> 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.
Well said, though I said it shorter *g*
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