Looks like I'm the only one gullible enough to be hopeful.
Wikipedia does have a page on the live-action series now, but it's so bad (even by Wikipedia's low standards) I won't even post the link. Instead here are some quotes from the interviews. I've discarded fan boy blatherings and obvious speculation which probably should have included anything Sansweet says. We don't even knows him and already we hates him. (Heckling in brackets is me).
+ "Think about bounty hunter [sic]; that’s all I can tell you." (If it's Boba Fett, I definitely won't watch it).
+ "One show that will split into four shows, focusing on different characters."
+ "it will be for more mature audiences like TV shows Battlestar Galactica" (God help us)
+ "It is going to be much darker, much grittier, and it's much more character based." (Didn't the PR people say that when the Star Trek movies jumped the shark).
+ "For me, the future is in television." (Movies bomb sometimes but) "If one show doesn't work, oh well, next week you're on to the next!"
+ "He envisions somewhere like 100 hours between Episode III and Episode IV with a lot of characters that we haven't met but have been developed in other novels and other things," McCallum said. "So we're really excited about that because I think finally we can have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series." (oh great! We get to see young Han Solo after all?)
+ Steve Sansweet (head of Lucasfilm fan relations, obviously a Force.Net Greaser): "For the most part, it's going to be characters you've seen a little of or seen some of, and they will be the central figures. But of course the plot lines will have to take into account what is happening in the rest of the galaxy, so you'll hear the names Luke and Han and Darth and things like that."
+ Steve Sansweet: "Somebody has to buy it first, you know what I mean? You can produce lots of TV and unless it's very compelling, nobody's going to want to put it on their channel. ... There's ipod downloads, there's premium sites, there's through-the-telephone. In 3 years, what's going to be the hot new way of distributing?" (Yes, it's called BitTorrent)
+ Steve Sweetmeat: "McCallum also said that the series will have a default home base in Sydney for the series' for production, but will also use a variety of international locations to create the new small-screen Star Wars backdrop (in hi-def)" (Maybe Barend can start the picket?)
+ Steve Smellyfeet: "But you never know the future of Jar Jar, there's a lot of years to go into with Star Wars. You don't know what happened between 3 and 4. That's a 19 year period, lots of stuff can happen."
+ Pro-tip: Lucas is good at managing leaks. Since Sansweet is obviously a bed wetting fan boy(*), I doubt Lucas would have told him anything juicy he didn't want the world to know.
+ Rick McCallum explained that the series would begin filming and be ready in 2008.
+ McCallum has said that each episode will have a budget of 2-4 million dollars, and that he is looking to hire writers from Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, and Lost
+ Lucas and McCallum have interviewed over 200 prospective wriers for the series from all over the world. McCallum hopes to narrow the writing staff down to about five or six writers. It will then take around six months to complete the scripts, after which McCallum hopes to begin shooting in 2009 in Australia. (But if GL is still spouting a crap background story, it'll still fail.)
+ Lucas has described the show as "bare-bones" and "action-heavy." (WTF does that mean anyway?)
+ Lucas is currently in the process of planning out the character and story arcs, which he has been working on over the last several months. (Nonsense! He planned this all in 1975!)
+ When asked by a fan at his AFI lifetime achievement ceremony if this may include the Knights of the Old Republic/Sith Wars era, Lucas explained he may be interested in taking the franchise to those story areas one day. (That's vague as hell. Why did I even quote that?)
+ McCallum: "One of the ideas is that we’ll have multiple series going on in about two or three year’s time." McCallum hopes that after the series' second or third year, a character could have his/her own spin-off series, and by the fourth or fifth year, the production staff could have at least five separate series running. (Hoo yeah. Sorry Rick, chances are you'll trip up long before then. You're the guy who screwed the Prequels over so badly. aka "It was like that when I got here" and "Hey, that's a great idea, Boss!" He should have canned you then, if not to cover his own mistakes.)
+ Aim is for 100 to 400 episodes, going on forever like those old TV series Lucas said he watched as a kid.
http://starwarsblog....s-3-d/#more-162http://www.movieweb....ws/90/11090.phphttp://starwars.wiki...ction_TV_serieshttp://au.tv.ign.com...0/770160p1.html (WARNING: Contains close ups of George Lucas)
Now after accessing some obvious Force.Net sites I feel the urge to scrub myself until my skin bleeds.
(*) = There go ChefElf's hopes of an exclusive for this site :-)
This post has been edited by Toru-chan: 29 October 2007 - 11:27 PM
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