Star Wars TV Possibly Getting Potentially Closer to Plausibly Happening… Maybe
Remember that live-action Star Wars TV series that George Lucas mentioned once like three years ago and then never said anything else about? Well, it’s possible that there’s been some movement on it, Scifi Wire reports incredibly vaguely.
Our Australian sister site SCI FI TV reports a rumor that preproduction is gearing up for George Lucas’ proposed live-action Star Wars series, which is to be shot Down Under.
The
site, citing anonymous sources, adds that the show is assembling
high-quality writers from the Aussie TV industry, including writers
from Love My Way and Secret Life of Us, who have been approached by Lucas’ longtime producer Rick McCallum.The as-yet-untitled series is supposedly set to debut in 2010,
though there has been no word of a distributor yet. The series will
reportedly be set between the eras of Star Wars: Episode III–Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV–A New Hope and will not feature any major characters from the film series.
I don’t know about this. One the plus side, Rick McCallum doesn’t do anything but work as Salacious Crumb to George Lucas’ Jabba, and I can’t think of another reason for him to be in Australia; also, it’s rumored that Lucasfilm has some big announcement at SDCC, although god only know what that is or how impressive it might actually be. On the less positive side, the last bit of movie news reported by an Australian news outlet from unnamed sources was that Christian Bale was going to play Dr. Strange, which is such bullshit I’m still kind of mad about it.
The point is, no one knows. Also, the live-action Star Wars TV series should still totally be The Chronicles of Lando Calrissian with Donald Faison.
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