Remember a couple of weeks ago when we reported that there were 50 hours of the new Star Wars TV series filmed and ready to go?
Apparently, it wasn’t that there were 50 hours filmed and ready to go, but that there were 50 hours of third-draft scripts ready to go in front of the camera. Rick McCallum is working to clear up the rumors surrounding the series and hopefully keep fans from getting too excited about it just yet.
McCallum also says that some of the series will be filmed in the Czech Republic. LucasFilm worked there before on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
But it will be at least a couple of years before production begins on the series, McCallum says.
Network television and cable television as we know it are completely imploding, so we’re not really sure that in five years’ time we can release a dramatic one-hour episode because it is all reality TV now,” he says.
Should we get to the point where the series is a go and goes into production, what can we expect?
“Basically, it is like The Godfather; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s [about] a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution,” McCallum said.
maybe they need to take a reality TV twist to it and make a "Jedi Knight - Training" style show. Like teaching martial arts and such..
I predict this show will never happen. Write it down.
*massive super intergalactic facepalm
Okay, so they haven't actually shot two seasons worth of footage but instead have written two season worth of shows? Sorry, I really can't buy that unless George Lucas captured a bunch of writers, chained them to the floor in his dungeon and made them write two seasons. Unless all of the scripts are stage directions then I really doubt they have two seasons worth of scripts. I wonder where this 50 hour thing is coming from and Rick McCallum is still an idiot.
"“Basically, it is like The Godfather; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s [about] a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution,” McCallum said."
Great, it's "Caprica" with lightsabers.
Needs more Jar-Jar.