George Lucas On His Live-Action STAR WARS TV Series: ‘It Sits On The Shelf!! We Have 50 Hours!!’

Not sure what to make of this. On the one hand - it's new Star Wars. On the other hand Lucas's story cred has suffered greatly since the late 90's. I'm looking at you, Greedo Fired First.

Animation is fine, but keep the live action on the silver screen. Get Mark Hamill and make eps. VII - IX.

I wish Lucas would challenge himself creatively like for example doing a Star Wars graphic novel where there's no budget and really do something uniques storytelling wise. But that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

After the watered-down drubbing the first three in the trilogy delivered, I feel that Mr. Lucas has really fallen out of touch with the franchise he created. Which is too bad because he had some amazing source material in the works of Joseph Campbell that he was supposed to be following...yeah, that worked out really well. I really don't think he has it in him to deliver anything that could redeem the mess he made. But then again what do I know, I was sure that Han shot first. ??Pseudo?? Out.

So... Basically they've shot everything, and are developing new software to animate faster and for a tenth of the price..? Why not do that befóre you start shooting? Just outsource it, George. I'd choose WETA over ILM every day of the week ('and twice on Sunday' - A Few Good Men).

That way you can show that Han became a wife-beater, Luke travelled the galaxy doing his great 'Amazing Jedi Illusionist Hyper-space Show', and Wedge died in a tragic drunk-piloting accident. Don't forget that Chewbacca was convicted of Nerf-sodomy, and Lando died penniless and alone after he lost Cloud City in a game of holo-chess.

If George allows the right people to run with it.

It's not TV, it's God Damn HBO. Put this **** on HBO, and make it epic like Game of Thrones and we can get 13 great or very good episodes a year for a few years, and boom, there is your 50 hours. Don't tell me that this isn't possible, anything is possible.

Anybody wonder why? We all know that Mark Hamill would love to do more and Harrison Ford will do anything for the right price. VII - IX on the way.

George Lucas has made it so I can no longer enjoy anything Star Wars related. Fuck George Lucas.

2011: first blu ray release of PT and OT 2012-2013: 3D Theatrical runs of PT and OT 2014: begin producing new film trilogy (someone else to direct) 2016: episode 7 released 2017: begin airing live action tv show 2019: episode 8 released 2022: episode 9 released ??? PROFIT

How about this for making it for a tenth of the cost: Don't use computer graphics in every. fucking. shot. He should be more concerned with plot than pixels. How about making the characters likeable too. That'd make a nice change. You know what, I never say this about films, but this series needs a reboot. I feel disgusted at myself for saying that, but it's true.

minus the helmet

They produce 50 hours of outlines and scripts and THEN figure out it is too expensive to make??? This live action thing was just a hoax to keep the licencing partners at bay.

His current films are 85% cartoons already. Why go thru the pain of building green screen "sets" and working with icky live actors? I seriously don't get why he's clinging to live action.

have them condense the a lot of those 50hrs of scripts into a new trilogy for a cinema release (which you should NOT direct). Then whatever is left of those 50hrs of scripts, do it as a mini series for TV, say 5 or 6 hours in length. Again, do NOT direct it yourself. That way, this whole thing may actually see the light of day. You're just being cheap George. All the money that you've made out of this franchise, and the fact that you own possibly the best visual FX studio in the industry, to now be saying 'we got to make these things cheaper' just stinks. Try not to saturate everything with CGI and you may save some money. I'll bet that if you do figure out how to make them cheaper, you'll still be charging the same for the dvd/Blu Ray's, and you'll still be releasing different versions of the same old shit every few years or so.

Not one mention of ANY sort of creative reasoning, every single reason for the "hold" is financial, cost, technology, rofl I guess the script and story and everything that actually matters is pitch perfect then, eh? Great, George, love it. LOVE it you PIG.

sorry about the pig thing

I know, it's so crazy it just might work!

There has to be some eccentric billionaire out there who can buy the rights to Star Wars from this idiot. Has anyone else seen the video on youtube of Chewbacca and an Ewok dancing to "Welcome To the Jungle" at the sanctioned Star Wars Disney World show? It's part of a fucking dance contest. Fuck you, Lucas.

Seriously "economically viable"?! Really?! I would suggest that Lucas watch how HBO have handled Game of Thrones to show how to do quality fantasy TV Also i would say that Lucas is making the same mistake over and over again with regard to CGI. CGI never made the movies better George. In fact a lot of the CGI was down right annoying in the prequels. From what Lucas said i have no confidence in the show getting made. I dont think he wants to make the show and he is just saying these things so that he can have a quiet life.

Ditch Star Wars and go make your experimental films where your heart really lies!

You are such a romantic. George doesn't have the heart or the guts to make those experimental films. Only the cold steel will of the wannabe syndicated television mogul. *single teardrop*

He's still mightily full of shit, no doubt about it. He just needs to find a more cost effective way to put that shit on screen. Here's a clue George - More Jar Jar. Much much more CGI and green screen. And empty promises. Oh you can't forget about those.

1: Scrap your live action Star Wars series set between ROTS and ANH 2: Scrap your plans to convert the saga into 3D for another worldwide release just to make extra profit. 3: Do a film restorarion for the Theatrical cuts of the Original Trilogy and release them in full anamorphic High Definition transfers on Blu Ray. 4: Have JJ Abrams write and direct the next Star Wars Trilogy and keep him the hell away from Star Trek. He's a Star Wars fan and would leav his wife and kids at the chance! 5: Stop making Clone wars animated. 6: Do an animated miniseries based on the old Republic, work with Bioware! 7: Do an animated miniseires based between ROTS and ANH, work with Bioware! 8: Destroy the negatives of the Star Wars Special editions. 9: Work with Adywan and have him supervise his special editions of the Original Trilogy for ILM to produce FX for and release alongside the theatrical cuts on Blu Ray. 10: Leave Star Wars alone forever.

George Lucas! Enough with this TV nonsense! Star Wars should be EPIC!! EPIC!! The saga should be seen on the big screen. There is no other franchise that will ever come close to creating the amount of hysteria and anticipation among fans for a new film in its series. Star Wars films are the only films that give fans that great communal experience of standing in line for hours, getting to know each other, and geeking out over every bit of minutiae. It's a big party and it's long overdue. Watching the OT films in 3-D may bring back some of that sense of SW community but it's nothing like waiting for a NEW installment.

used to be shown on the tv Sunday mornings in the UK a few years back, loved the Chicago Blues episode, Vlad the Impaler episode and the one where Indy is stranded on a desert island.

This doesn't really make any sense to me, other than greed (too many Producers and Executive Producers). They must have hundreds of thousands of digital and physical assets to produce this at a much reduced cost. Make 25 episodes and produce the second 25 with the profits! Everyone will watch it and major stations will fight over it. Yeesh.

I mean if you do, then have at it you taste-free and crazy bastards, but me, I don't see us getting any truly great Star Wars film or tv endeavours until George either pops his clock, or hands the reigns over to someone else. And even then, it's iffy...

Gay Jedis having sex and Sith Lords raping and killing younglings. Ichota! A Skywalker always pays his debts.

...and that budget saving "Enterprise" for movies in the not so far future in a galaxy near by: TOTAL ANIMATION. Not that cartoony shit we had to endure but probably a "real" sequel trilogy with animated Skywalker and the Solo couple - minus the actors. Maybe that's what he means... making dollars out of computers... He always wants to redefine Motion Pictures (well, Cameron was the first to hand us 3D, but AVATAR still looks like animation...), so Lucas tries out his Final Fantasy indistinguishable from Live Action. Crazy shit? Maybe. But I could imagine something along those lines....

and are now looking at the technology to make them real, as opposed to the prequels, where it seemed like Lucas was writing them around the sfx available at the time. There's a Doug Chiang painting in The Art of The Phantom Menace, featuring Obi Wan waiting alone on the Neimodian ship at the start of the film, and there's a caption that says something along the lines of how that scene was designed before the Qui Gon character existed. Imagine that, the design of the bloody chairs and table in that room were locked down before the Qui Gon character was even written. There's something not right there.

Ugh.

I miss the feel of your once-imaginative dick in my ass, Mr. Lucas.

If they can make Battlestar Galactica, or Star Trek, or Game of Thrones, and do it w/in a budget that works for TV, Lucas can sure as hell do Star Wars. Hey George...it's about STORY and CHARACTER. Time you remembered that.

"-it will dramatically affect a lot of movies, because a lot of features now that are costing $150-$200 million, we’ll suddenly be able to make them for $50-$60 million." ... Wha? Lower ticket and disc prices? More creative freedom? MORE CBM'S??? If Lucas can pull that off I'll forgive the prequels. Seriously.

The Star Wars universe is like Deep Space Nine - sure, they mined what they could and did it well, but all the rest is just garbage. There's a reason that the three films, with their human stars and fairly straightforward plots (get there, fight that guy, kill that) remain in our memories, but not much else does. Maybe Darth Maul, but what a waste.

Why didn't Lucas?!?!?

It'll be more profits for studios, not lower ticket prices. Good grief.

I agree if the 50 hours are completely edited, scored and everything fucking show 'em! If the story structure isn't episodic then continuity wouldn't matter if those 50 hours were all we got. Cost issues my ass. The dude's a billionaire so if he wants to do anything he can. I never thought I could hate star wars but damn if I'm not close to it. The holiday special was all George. He tries to play it off like other people fucked up his shit but it was all his call.

Lucas never had a grand plan or wanted to make ANY SW films after the original. It was always meant to be a one off film in the tradition of old stand alone serials and sci fi from the 50's. BUT we the fans demanded more, and the studios begged for more. So he broke down and made the trilogy, and that was to be the end. BUT we the fans wanted more, and when what we got didn't satisfy what our preconceived notions of what WE would have made, we bitched and moaned. Lucas never wanted his life to be about fucking SW, he wanted to make crazy shit like THX1138 and other films like American Graffiti. Off hand comments he made back in the early 80's about finishing the story were just him thinking out loud. He didn't really want to do them, but WE demanded it. And don't give me the bullshit of he's doing it because he's greedy. Ever see the campus in San Francisco? Thats paid for with SW money. ILM? THX? PIXAR!?!!??!?! Most new film technology created in the last 30 years is thanks to SW money. That money hasn't been used to buy bulletproof lumberjack shirts he loves, its used to better film. So lets all just take a breather and realize that as much as we love SW, its a fucking movie, and we all need to grow up.

Sock puppets. I'd watch a new "Star Wars" series performed with sock puppets. Who wouldn't? PAD

This is typical Lucasbot, totally focused on logistics, more machine than man now. If the series had good scripts and characters with actors who can bring them to life, then fans would happily settle for Star Trek TNG-level SFX. ST TNG was produced over 20 years ago, and they did it on a syndication budget! Here, I'll try to put this into terms Lucasbot can compute. If you build real sets and use real models, you can REUSE them for the length of the series. Your stupid fans won't mind, they might even prefer it! You could even SELL the sets when the show ends its run. Holy $hit, Lucasbot!

Film it all on the grounds of Lucas's estate. Say it's the Wookie Homeworld.

That 50 hours is probably filled with lots of FX-heavy stuff, and less of more salient things like acting and writing. He could attempt to minimize the FX stuff, but since he's turned into someone who has come to rely so heavily on its use, it impairs his ability. The man owns an effects house and other post-production resources, for goodness sakes. If he can't make a financially viable TV series with that at his disposal, something else is probably at work.

*Yawn* 50 hours, holy God. I think what he is saying is they probably don't have the FX and to put in would cost a ton of cash for a show that won't make any of it back. Personally, I love to see it, but I understand if he is leary to do it especially if people want more. Plus, he gave half his fortune away to charity, so he has to start looking at the big picture financially again. I do think we will see the show and I am sure it will kick ass.

He was saying that he intended to write all 100 episodes before shooting any of them. He wanted to make sure he could tell a certain arch and didn't want to run into issues that most shows do, when they change directions in the middle of their run. He also wants a package deal from HBO, where they guarantee to purchase all 100 episodes up front. HBO does short seasons, milks them, and doesn't want to guarantee anything long term. And Lucas was a hojillion dollars.

I take him seriously when he says he's waiting on the technology to make it happen. A lot of the digital and non-linear film/video technology that many of us take for granted today got underway because of a push from George Lucas.

Why not go the mo-cap route? Zemeckis and his mo-cap looks better and better all the time. Then you don't need locations, sets or anything like that. It has to be the cheaper route.

-- he'll continue to revolutionize the technology of the industry as he's been doing for decades now and keep making the movies/shows he wants to make.

The man doesn't need your respect, and certainly doesn't need your advice. If you're so frustrated by his projects, go make some of your own or else ignore his.

None of the naysayers want to admit it, but the Clone Wars TV show is a huge success from both an entertainment and technological standpoint. Lucas may not be a good screenwriter, but the man knows how to produce and manage creativity and technology on a grand scale others could simply dream of. Let the man do his thing. There are plenty of people who have made a couple bad films and haven't given us the entertainment and technology legacy that Lucas has.

I'm pretty sure that was an impostor in a plaid shirt with big-neck make-up...

Also, I was actually looking forward to the live-action series, as I'd hoped it would rescue the franchise, so of course that would the version we're never going to get, while Luca$ continues to piss down our throat...

And they didn't run into actor issues ala Bab5 (and even then, only the arcs were written, not every single ep prior to filming!), + if they can work out a way to pull of SFX of the magnitude they are discussing... then it could well be the greatest TV series ever. Imagine Lost or Twin Peaks if every single episode had been completely written in advance, like a finished novel. The "extend for ever if popular, kill early if unpopular" inevitable but annoying way in which US TV shows get made means they either die young, or live long enough to see themselves become pieces of shit. Remove those factors and it could be the greatest thing ever. Of course, it also relies just a little on actors, characters, plot, that kind of shit. Let's hope George isn't too hands on this time... Still, he gets a lot of hate, but let's not forget - he started the company that became Pixar. Gave THX sound and unpresidented editing technology to the industry, and inspired directors like James Cameron to stop being truckers and start making Terminators. Even if he makes Jar Jar the Movie he should have also earned some respect somewhere....

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing the show will have the same feel as the original movies, the rebellion vs the empire, that we all love so much. I just wish they would just scale back. As George said, it's TV. I'm not expecting it to look like the movies. If it looks as good as the new Battle Star or Farscape, I'm a happy camper. And I totally believe he has another trilogy of movies in his back pocket. He denied the second trilogy for years, even though he first mentioned it back, along with a third back in the 70's. Then surprise, new trilogy! So don't be too surprised when he knocks out a new one in another 15 years or so.

Did the release date get moved up or something? or is time jumping from June to September part of the rapture?

http://tinyurl.com/3zdf8wh

It says September release date

Why does Lucas have such a hard one for the time from ROTS to ANH? We know how that all ends. I want to see movies set after ROTJ. I've been looking forward to them since I was 8 and first watched the trilogy and heard it was going to be a 9 movie series.

That era is ripe for good stories. Hell, the first KOTOR game is still one of the most enjoyable SW experiences I've had and the story rocked.

That is what JJ Abrams figured out, Lucas. He knows what the movie going public wants to see: more lens flare! He filled his Star Trek with lens flare, and it made shit loads of money! Get that tattoed to your giant, fat forehead George Lucas: MORE LENS FLARE!!!!

There are directors who would sell their souls to the devil to make a Star Wars movie. And they have the passion and respect for the trilogy that George doesn't. George can be the producer, he can get a story by credit. He'll still make a truckload of money. But by getting directors like Peter Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro, Christopher Nolan, and many more would probably all want to do a Star Wars movie. And I don't want to hear George's B.S. about how the movies are complete and Luke brought balance back to the force and all is well. There's always going to be evil. And it would be interesting to see what new threat will rise up to try and wipe out the new Jedis.

you have time to approve, Family guy crap, Robot chicken crap, Clone Wars season 3, untitled animated comedy from Seth Green Star Tours, where I believe on a few percent of americans get to see. Look, Lucas start simple make it clould city interiors clean and real sets. No more fucken animated shit. End of line.

Hire HBO to do it as an adult series. Yes, I said ADULT. Sex, violence, the works. Kids today don't give anywhere near as much of a fuck as we did about STAR WARS, so fuck it - make it for the BATTLESTAR and THRONES audience. Hire the big hitting writers, the writers of SPORANOS, DEADWOOD, BSG. Hire decent fucking directors. Get George to write the over-arching story, breaking it into episodes, then LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE. Let somebody else - somebody BETTER - write it.

Hire Zoic to do the SFX. FIREFLY was fucking epic on the budget it had, and so was BSG. These people are the fucking masters of small-screen SFX - get them in. Fuck ILM - they're more interested in videogames than movies, anyway (at least, it looks that way when you watch that Godawful Playstation 1 level lava fight at the end of REVENGE OF THE BITCH).

Hire decent actors, hungry for decent dialogue. Hire decent fucking writers. Hire decent directors. DON'T LET GEORGE TOUCH THE FUCKING DIALOGUE.

It'll never happen, but if it did, THAT is how you make that shit.

Now stop worrying about shit that will never happen, and go watch ATTACK THE BLOCK. It's the freshest, most fucking enjoyable movie in years, and it's directed by somebody who seems to give a fuck. You could learn from this, Lucas, you mynock-raping bastard.

"And it would be interesting to see what new threat will rise up to try and wipe out the new Jedis"

We got that in the officially canon novels. What was it? The Yuuzhan Vong. Fucking hell...

If that opportunist charlatan wannabe hack piece of shit Abrams gets this gig, that's the day I finally strap on a blaster carbine, load up the SLAVE 2 and go after that motherfucker. He's ruined more movies than Jennifer fucking Aniston, and as for LOST - don't get me started. No, really. Don't. WORST. ENDING. EVER. THAT is what happens when you pay writers in Hawaii and LA enough money to blow it all on hookers and blow - you get a fucking last season so fucking nonsensical that all the white in Columbia won't give you enough warp on your perspective to make that hideously over-plotted underwhelming pice of audio-visual SHIT sensible. And let's not go there on STAR FLARE: TREK BABIES. For fuck's sake... If that pig-fucker gets STAR WARS, my nerd-rage will be catastrophic. It will make the ravings of AsimovLives look like the demented shrieking of a petulant, insane child.

Oh, wait...

...All I'd actually do is kick my TV in and spit Cheetos all over my jizz-encrusted keyboard, hoping my Mom doesn't hear my gibbering rants through my ceiling/her front room floor...

Maybe i'll find leaked material on the torrents. there's gotta be something available. Georgie just wasted millions on manpower and effects. what an idiot. BTW G4TV Sucks.

I don't know, Battlestar Galactica (the remake) looked pretty good and it was a TV show. He just needs to tone down the amount of action and effects he has in each episode and focus on character development. THAT'S what makes people care about the characters and keep coming back.

Remember after Jedi, where the toys weren't so in your face? Marvel ended their run of the comic series? There weren't tons of books, there were just a handful-The trilogy, Splinter of the Minds Eye, The Han Solo Trilogy and the Lando Calrissian trilogy. Jedi came out in'83 if memory serves me right. So, in about '85. Star Wars pretty much began to, if not totally, dried up. Sure, we still talked about it. Fantasized what the next chapter of Star Wars could be (I always felt that it would have been far more interesting to move forward, as opposed to giving us a prequel). Nowadays, theres TONS of books, toys, games, comics. You can't escape the George Lucas juggernaut. You missing a fix of Star Wars...well, what will you have? Clone Wars cartoons? Dark Horse comics? Maybe you are an avid book reader....my point is, I don't really think anyone cares if this TV series goes into production. I don't. If it comes on, sure, I'll tune in and see what the fuss is about, BUT I don't think at this point its really gonna bring us anything that must be seen.

Stop depending on CGI to tell the story.

Recast the roles of Luke, Leia, Han, etc. as needed and adapt one book for season similar to TRUE BLOOD and GAME OF THRONES. It would be outstanding if handled properly, but this is Lucas we're talking about here, so we have to settle for a CLONE WARS animated series instead.

HBO is the worse place to take that series. FX has better shows anyway and they look great on that station. This idea tha space tits will somehow make the series awesome is almost asinine then listening to what a bunch of losers at 10:00 am on weekday think they can do to restart a franchise that is fine. Sex works for Game of Thrones, because it has a large part of what is going on. Hell, the entire first book revolves around a conspiracy involving sex. Band of Brothers was a mini-series, so it gets a bigger budget off the bat then doing the same amount of episodes on a regular show. Star Wars does not need to age for us, because the original fans have gotten older.

It says 50 hours worth of scripts written. No footage has been shot. No effects created. For all we know he sat in his little writer's treehouse they always interview him in and wrote the scripts while jerking off to pictures of Jake Lloyd.

I bet Joe Cornish would LOVE to make a SW movie, and it'd show on every single frame.

in my previous post, first of all, thanks for reporting on this story, It seems only I care about this in my parts. I can't tell you how many times I here people metion Star Wars and it's because of the Family Guy spoofs. Ughhh, the mystery of SW is now easily digestible to the average joe! As a fan, George I can say, keep your shelf empty.end of line.

You got two kinds of fans - the ones who grew up with this series, and who deserved to see a little more of Order 66 and the Clone Wars than the movie/toy commercials could show us (hey, don't want to neglect the kiddie dollars, do we?), and you got the new fans, the kids, who only care if the product is directly in their face. And I think you'd find that more merchandise is bought by the die-hard grown-up fan boys than is bought by the kid fans, who mostly get over it after the movie's finished. I don't know any kids that are as avid about being fans of STAR WARS than our generation were, basically because, for them, STAR WARS is the Prequels and the Clone Wars series - neither of which are as interesting for them as the OT was for us. Different times, different people. It's time STAR WARS grew up to keep up with its REAL fans.

that the reason why George can't figure out how to produce his show is because he'll never remember how to rely on story and characters rather than special effects...sad, really...

Absolutely no exterior shots of any major location (outside of a CGI 3D map in the opening credits). Half-ass CGI. A neverending stream of conversations that take place in hallways or garden walks. Practically no extras, or extras that got little, if any, stage direction. A horse-tribe "horde" that consists of 10 people, at most. An all kingdom, coffers-draining tournament, wide-shots of which reveal fewer costumed audience members than a local ren-faire. Laughable choices in the hair (Daenerys' white mess of a hair-do, Tyrion Lannister's red-blonde "frosting") and makeup (the goth-raccoon look of the Khal Drogo) of several of the main characters. Let alone, the random scenes of pointless, awkward sex. No, I DO NOT want the "Game of Thrones" treatment for a Star Wars television series. No way. No how.

Mr. Lucas, don't fucking bother. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Nobody gives a flying fuck if you make a star wars TV show.

so those are still expensive for 10 hrs of television. Lucas should specify if 50 hours is on the page or in the can. What happened to Red Tails?? Anyone? No footage, poster or word god damn one about anything other than it filmed 2-3 years ago. Must be FX heavy.

Seriously, listen to your tirade. You might as The kids who watched the prequels love them for the most part and are watching Clone Wars. People care and you will watch too then bitch about it online.

Really, George, I just don't care any more. Maybe I'll watch a few, maybe not. (I've seen a couple of Clone Wars eps and just felt "eh".) What George is really saying is, "I can't make the series look like the Prequel movies on a TV budget." OK, that's a feature, not a bug. There have been hundreds of hours of great Sci-Fi and thousands of hours of pretty-good-all-things-considered Sci-Fi done on a TV budget. If the story and characters are done well (you know, the "writing") then we really don't mind if you film at Vasquez Rocks with a filter to change the sky color. George Lucas from 1980 (or even 1992 when he made Young Indiana Jones) could have made a good Star Wars TV series on a TV budget. George Lucas from 2011 can't make a good SW TV series on any budget.

Shot for shot remake of Star Wars a New Hope would cost (without all the special edition hoo-ha). I assume modern CGI would be cheaper than practical effects were back in the day. It's the small, personal, interior scenes that make that movie. When it was a movie about Luke Skywalker. I'd watch 50 hours of that. When Star Wars was telling a story, and not trying to tell 'history.' I can't even stand to rewatch the prequels. I had more enjoyment reading Marvel's 1970s - 80s Star Wars comics.

WTF? Just put the f'in release date instead of making everyone think it got moved.

If they can make BSG and SGU in a budget then a Star Wars TV show should be possible. My guess is digital sets all round, akin to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Come on George, get your thumb out!

I like hearing him talk like this. Let him figure out the technical. I wouldn't bet against him to find a way to revolutionize the procedure. I just wish the guy would quit trying to write ... just brutal.

I hate to say this, but the trailers to the new mmorpg game "The Old Republic" seems better shot / written / choreographed than any of Lucas's dreadful prequels. I say just let the writers, directors, choreographers, artists, and dp from the game shoot either the sequels to the franchise or the tv films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0RuR3FREFw

This isn't a particularly well-thought out universe of characters, etc. It all bends on the whim its creator. Lucas can't even consistently explain the creation of his backstory to these characters and stories. He re-edited SITH drastically to change Anakin's turn to the Dark Side... and the movie suffered for it greatly. Just stop, George. Keep licensing the shit out of it- sell bent wookies for the rest of your years and leave us with whatever good memories we have of fir first 2 movies you worked on for this series.

Your sentiments on "Game of Thrones" couldn't be more accurate. It's complete garbage. The fact that so many people are sucking its dick is astounding. It's a blight on the otherwise nigh spotless reputation HBO has accrued.

And yet you take the time to find a nerd site, aimed at uber-geeks, to find a talkback for you to tell all the uber-geeks on this uber-geek site that they shouldn't bother thinking that they matter to a franchise that was on life-support in the early 90s, only to be resurrected when the original OT fans - NOT kids, the OT fans - bought the novels, games, RPGs, figures etc of the nascent Expanded Universe. LFL figured there was money to be made, and so, the expansion of STAR WARS as a franchise was born - on the back of OT fans clamouring to collect more stuff from the STAR WARS universe.

The kids that came to see the Prequels did so becuase their OT-loving parents brought them there, not because they thought it looked awesome. Or do all the kids you know absolutely LOVE movies about politics, trade routes, the minutiae of political diplomacy and the machinations of voting in a galactic Senate??

No OT fans, no franchise. End of. It's a fact.

I'm no fancy mathematician but why am I constantly listening to a fucktillionaire telling me what he cannot afford to do? He said the same shit about restoring the OT for a blu-release. Isn't the whole idea of being ridiculously mega-wealthy that you can afford to do whatever the fuck you want? Does he honestly think investing upfront in SW of all things wont yield a profit? What does he think it would be a loss and he'd be out on the streets or something because he shot a few fucking TV shows? Sorry I'm not buying this. There's more to this story than what we're being told.

I wonder if we will ever get to see a full grown direwolf of the size of the dead one they found in the beginning, prolly not. True Blood is a hit and they had to go with 20 year old morphing effects from a Michael Jackson video for the werewolf transformations and settle for actual wolves post transformation. Supernaturals werewolves pretty much look like vampires. Band of Brothers and The Pacific are not as slick and polished and effects heavy as Saving Private Ryan and what we've seen of Terra Nova may be closest to movie quality but it still doesn't look as good as Jurassic Park from almost 20 years ago. Movie quality effects in a TV Show... I bet Ron Howard and George Lucas have a lot to talk about.

Looking at you Voyage of The Dawn Treader

it's called RADIO. Does anyone here remember the Star Wars radio series?

He is hopeless.

Hs goal is to do something that looks like the films on a TV budget. Nothing more sinister to it that that. RELAX already.

He has done it before.

I hate to beat a dead horse but Joss Whedon made Serenity for $39 Million and that was a really nice looking movie. I know it didn't do that well at the box office ($38 Million worldwide) but it looked like a movie that cost a lot more than that. I really don't think all "tent pole" movies need to cost between $150 and $200 Million. You pay the actors in profit points (of which a star wars movie will earn them a nice paycheck that way) and only have big CGI shots "where needed". It's not necessary to have stupid little things flying around EVERY shot... in fact it's a bit distracting. Movies don't NEED to be so expensive.

Time to get a little more content at home besides IMAX on demand and Soccer

New term = vaportainment. When an expected TV franchise does not exist and has no chance of being made.

Its not like its wasn't on TV or had VHS versions of it to rent. Yes, OT parents and fans helped, but this is the time of the prequel kids who buy the figures, the Lego games and watch Clone Wars. Either enjoy it or move on. I would personally hate any Star Wars film that lowered itself to the level of Game of Thrones just appease a very small percent of the so-called "real" fans. I love Game of Thrones and I think HBO has done a good job, not a great job with it. Yet, Book One is the most polished and straightforward. Book 4 totally goes off the rails, so I am sure like Lucas, we will have fans bitch about Game of Thrones down the line. Stargate and BattleStar's FX look like shit compared to Sith. Its better for Lucas to make it look good then just to throw it out there when he isn't even happy with the effects. Its better for him to wait and let the nerd hate die down a bit then do the show when its cost effective. If it isn't cost effective, why would he throw it out there. For my "real" fans to rip it apart. Also, I am getting paid right now, so what is your excuse?

Remember the late 80's and early 90's where he said he couldn't make the prequels because the effect's hadn't caught up to what he wanted yet. Same seems to apply here.

No thanks. But if it's 50 hours of outer space adventure, lovable rogues/scoundrels, characters with story arcs, dastardly villians, bizarre/exotic locales, showing not telling, and, lastly, fun and thrills, sign me up.

Cha Ching

There was one space battle and the rest were glorified shots of the ship. That was probably the worst movie to a TV show ever. Lets kill the interesting characters and come up with some way to tie all the plot points to the series together into one big thing. If people aren't terrified for Avengers, they should be, they should be.

Agreed on the kids. And perhaps that is another reason for this delay, to let the prequel/clone crowd catch up to us a little bit, then you have an even bigger audience for the new series. Also agree on Avengers. The endings of Hulk and Thor leave me thinking we'll be seeing more "how they all got together" than "watch how much ass they can kick."

I think what many of us are trying to express is that if the series looks like the movies, it will be as disappointing as the movies. Here are three options: A. Looks like TV, is well-written by someone else B. Looks like the prequel movies, was written like the prequels C. Looks like the movies, but well-written by someone else Everyone on this board would watch "A". Everyone wants "C", but as long as control-freak Lucas is in charge of every pixel, we'll get "B". "I'm going to hire some writers to fill my universe with great stories and make the best TV show we can on a TV budget" would be a glorious announcement. "I've written 50 episodes of the TV show but it's too expensive to film because I'm fixated on a certain style" is who gives a damn.

give it up fatso.

Yeah and I'd go with ILM. Your point?

Hey it works for animation!

He has 50 hour of outlines. What he is waiting for is for "Virtual Actors" to escape the "Uncanny Valley". It will be a cartoon that is indistinguishable from live action and it will suck. After George dies maybe one of his kids might have some talent or the sense to turn this over to someone with talent.

I don't think Lucas actually said, during the 80's and 90's, that he couldn't make the prequels yet because the tech wasn't there. I think he made that shit up when Phantom Menace was coming together, and started repeating it like a mantra. Just like when he pretends that he was always going to make the story all about Anakin. I don't think he was thinking about SW at all in the late 80's and early 90's. If he was, maybe we'd have gotten a better script come 1999.

It doesn't need to be super stripped down, but maybe we don't really need to see 10 million ships over Coruscant at once when 10 will do fine. BSG has already done it - given great FX on TV within a TV budget, and they did it by focusing on character so that the action sequences paid off not only in $$$ for your buck, but also emotionally. Something that Lucas forgot about entirely in 1999.

You might be right. I do remember for sure that he said it around Jurrasic Park, using that as the "example" he had been waiting for. Although, if waiting for effects wasn't the case, why wait so long to get moving on the prequels? He had the rights locked, knew that it would have made an assload of money. Can't say he didn't have a story, because he still didn't have one when he made them.

That's how they tortured people into giving away Osama's Location. Seriously I hope he finishes this technique and retires before the show really starts. This reducing cost thing sounds great and it's the first time in a while I've been confident in a George Lucas project.

@ the people criticizing Game of Thrones. Do you have familiarity with the source material? Asking honestly. I'll give you the points that, yeah, the horde could look a little bigger, and the tournament could have been a little more grand. But beyond that, they've done exactly what the first book is. Lots of talking, and set up for story down the road. No major battles, just a lot of plotting, intrigue, and investigation. And it's still a TV show, even on HBO. Which means a smaller budget. And on GoT, I think they blew a lot of the budget on getting quality actors (and marketing, so people would actually know about the show). Which makes me a little more forgiving if the CGI isn't the best, or they didn't want to shell a ton of $$$ on hordes of extras. I'm an actor, so I get a lot more out of seeing the characters come to life and be well acted. This story is about the individuals, not great massive battles. Those happen, but usually off-screen, even in the books. And on the awkward unnecessary sex point, there's a lot of that in books, but also, that's almost any damn show on HBO, or pay cable for that matter. HBO delivers great stories, but I'm pretty sure there's a line in the contracts of any writers/directors that gives them a "tits/saying-the-word-fuck" quota per episode. :) Did any of us really want to see Steve Buscemi having sex on Boardwalk Empire?

i'd love to see his reaction...

A guy can dream can't he? Shut up, you're ruining my dream... Ah well, I'll be happy with more CBM's anyway...

I'm not sure why he didn't make them sooner, maybe he was focused on his business. When the OT was released, there was talk and rumors about him wanting to make a 9 part film saga, but then I seem to remember a vague sense of disdain that Lucas had for SW after ROTJ, in that he felt it kept him from "making the small films he really set out to make." But then he never made those small films, and when the prequels came around for the cash grab, he changed his tune, as if he always meant to finish. It could just be the gravity well or black hole of The Business: the money to be made is just too good to pass up. I'm glad Peter Jackson is returning to helm The Hobbit, but there was that sense after the trilogy that he was "done" too. Thankfully he has a great story to work with, and isn't waiting 15 years.

sitting on the pooper. We're actively developping DroidSchtick and AlienBurp technology that will enable any desktop computer to randomly generate lovely Star Wars tone poem moments for a fraction of the usual cost.

I remember the 9 part saga comment too. However, if I knew we would only end up with 6, I would rather it be the last 6 than the first. And the "small films" thing is the same thing he said after the prequels. I'm sure he will say it again when(if) this series ever gets made, yet we will never see any of these small films.

Goddamn I wish that GL would let some talented writers and directors take a shot at making some Star Wars movies. He told the Skywalker story, just make a rule saying leave the Skywalker story alone but go anywhere else you want. There is so much Expanded universe stuff that could be awesome. Hopefully when GL dies off his kids will be smart enough to do this. Knights of the Old Republic would make for a great series of movies.

ESB and ROJ, new directors. Let's face it. George stole most of the ideas for SW from old SF (he admits this). He's the luckiest hack in the world.

While I'm a little lukewarm to the idea of a Star Wars show set in the interim between III and IV--it actually has great potential but I'd prefer somebody else handled the story and direction--the idea that Lucas is working to find a way to dramatically lower the budget while keeping the same look is highly encouraging. Remember, Star Wars was made on a shoestring budget and Lucas pioneered cutting-edge effects that could be done for a pittance. ILM exists today because the man knew how to crunch a dollar. So if anyone can figure out how to shoot movie-quality features on a TV budget, it's him. He's also absolutely right to say this will slash the cost of production. What I hope comes out of this, regardless if the show is any good, is that Lucas ends up opening low-budget filmmaking to an even wider variety of indie productions and other TV shows.

Multi-billionaire bitching about money. Every TV network on the planet would try for this. How much money does he fucking need anyway? What a greedy arsehole.

have them each film an episode for fun with their own funding any way they can using the same actors.

Look, if you hate what's become of Star Wars, just go off and do something else. If you're just hanging around to throw poo at George Lucas, then you need to get a life, and get it quick. Lucas is going to make his movies and his TV shows how he likes to make them. If you don't like the way he does things, then you have some alternatives to explore. You can watch other work that you like better. Have some damn fun. Star Wars isn't and shouldn't be religion. It's entertainment. If it's not to your tastes, find the stuff you do like. And if you're still disgruntled, if you still believe there's not enough of what you like out there, and you're inclined to do something about it, go out there and prove that better is possible. Outdo him, put Lucas to shame, etc. But don't think that sitting around here, wanking about how Lucas is a hack and all that other stuff will improve anything. The only think you're changing is the polarity of some bits on a hard drive. Most fans aren't going to change their mind. Lucas certainly won't, and I don't blame him.

Lucas was the master storyteller of the 80's. Star Wars and Indiana Jones was anything better. Now they are both deader the Bin Laden.

Mr. Lucas, speaking as someone who as a child was profoundly effected by the universe and mythology you created on an emotional and spiritual level. Like most other kids were. I wouldn't care if it LOOKED like "Star Wars". I wouldn't' care if it looked like Dr. Who from the 80's or Gattaca. That's not what I was looking forward to when I originally heard about the possibility of this show. Because it's not important. What I was anxiously anticipating was, would it FEEL like Star Wars. Would the magic that incited me to dream about Knights, Princesses and old wizards from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away be there. The child in me (and I suspect all of us), awaits to take more of those perilous adventures through parts unknown against unvanquishable foes and monsters against one of the richest backgrounds in cinematic history. That is where the real power in the Star Wars canon resides. That is what I look forward to seeing if the series ever come to pass. yours truely Bantha Tracker

You're telling me that they can make all those Battlestar Galactica shows and spinoffs for peanuts on SyFy, but network TV won't shell out a few more bucks for a full-fledged Star Wars TV series? I smell bullshit BSG didn't have great CGI visuals, but when a show is written well, fans will overlook some less-than-excellent CGI. Sounds like, George, you know your show is shit and need to make it visually appealing to make up for it being horribly written.

Is that if he used the old special effects techniques that made him famous in the Original Trilogy, he could probably get this done and with a trim budget. But it's the CGI cartoon garbage that is going to cost him the dough and he's unwilling to part with it. Just went back and rewatched the theatrical releases of the OT and damn those are some beautiful effects. So the xwings look jerky at parts....at least they look like they have SUBSTANCE because they're actual models and not cartoons. Imagine if he made this series with the old FX techniques. He might redeem himself in the eyes of nerddom.

George, please don't tell me that you walk around telling everyone there will be a SW live action series, and then, all of the sudden, you find out it could get expensive! You know how much movies cost and you know how the industry works, so I find it hard to believe that you didn't know from the get-go that there would be a hefty pricetag attached to this project! I think the words "economically feasible" are just a way of saying "I'm not interested anymore"...

Without all those pesky actors and crew people.

I'm curious, is George going to just push a button in a computer and his tv shows will just magically appear? Maybe if he focused more on scripts instead of shoddy (and expensive) CGI he could get the ball rolling.

Fuck you! and fuck all of those CGI haters out there! What's wrong with you people?

Though THE PHANTOM MENACE tasks me. Mostly because of Jar Jar Binks. I hate that character.

You think George Lucas is going to read this TB? It sounds more like somebody in a wookie costume raped you as a child!....I'm sorry to hear that!

Doubtful, he still writes his masterpieces with a yellow legal pad. He's probably just bought one of those briefcase cell phones from the mid-80's.

From 1999 where Lesley Stahl said that he reminded her of one of her single mother friends. Lucas was totally taken off gueard by that question. Funny stuff.

Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Lando X.

With Vader and Palpatine as Cam and Mitchell.

I see them producing the series once the 3D theatrical re-release of the saga starts taking money (if it does...). Put that together with the profits of the Blu-ray saga, wait another couple of years for tech to catch up AGAIN, then they will go ahead with the show. Btw, he mentions 50 hours and that doesn't surprise me. It's a pretty open secret in the industry that people have been writing Star Wars teleplays the last couple of years in preparation for this.

Get some of the stars who need the work-Mark Hamill, Jake Lloyd, Ahmed Best, Lobot, Cliff from Cheers (hey he was in ESB!!), and Mon Mothma in a house together. Maybe throw in the little person that was inside Jabba's tale from ROTJ too.

You'd think they were John Cassavetes or something, and not multi-billionaires!

Even in a movie trilogy, we're never going to get an in-dept story about the every days lives of a Clone trooper. Nor will we ever see a deep story depicting the meticulous preparation of a Bounty Hunter as he goes after his mark. This is the type of character development everyone bitches about not seeing in a movie. And we'll never get that in a 2hr feature film, their simply isn't much time for anything but bombarding the audience with eye-candy and slapstick comedy. The Clone Wars Night Sisters trilogy was as good as any Starwars movie trilogy i've seen. And I didn't have to wait 6 years to see it, more like 3 weeks. We need a Starwars TV show, if it's handled correctly it could EPIC. It would be the equivalent of getting 15 or more Starwars movies per year. l

Just saying...you can do epic scifi on a television budget, you just have to be smart. ;)

Then the commercial behemoth of Lucas Inc. can produce a competent Star Wars universe TV show.

George Lucas is a fucking cunt. George wants to add all these fucking effects' shots and all this CG to basically put lipstick on his fucking pig. Well, you can't put lipstick on a pig and make it look like anything but a pig. George's series at this point is just like his prequels--absolute shit in terms of story and characters. Hell, that's what the fucking prequels were already. Lipstick on a pig. Game of Thrones with all of those problems I mentioned beats Star Wars hands fucking down because it is brilliantly written from source material by George R.R. Martin and adapted by a staff of writers who have translated that greatness off the page on to the screen. What's more, GoT's actors are never wooden, are always engaged and are always looking and sounding as if the characters they play have jumped right of Martin's novels and are there on screen for you to love or scorn. And the direction--holy fucking shit! For a television show despite the problems I mentioned, it still looks like it should be put on a theatre screen at the local cinema. FUCK! And George Lucas says he needs more money or the costs need to come down so he actually make his Star Wars television show. Fuck you George! FUCK YOU! You honestly think one of the major networks wouldn't fucking kill and I mean fucking kill to pay for this series whatever it cost because of the ratings it would have and advertising dollars corporations wouldn't cough up to get on board with a Star Wars tv series? Fuck! The networks and the advertisers would be committing mass murder to get this show! Star Wars was and still is the hottest fucking property around. Look at BSG, Lost, Fringe, Doctor Who and others who've done so much on sometimes meager budgets and gotten it done and created an absolute scifi renaissance on television. FUCK YOU GEORGE! FUCK YOU!

He aint getting one more cent from me.

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I've never said this publicly on AintItCool but I have an intense hatred for the Star Wars prequels. They suck on every conceivable level and make Return of the Jedi seem like Citizen Kane in comparison. If you love the prequels you have either been blinded by your love of Star Wars or know nothing about film. Most likely both.

Star Wars is not. Case closed.

6 movies two passable, one good 3 horrible = crap franchise to me.

Just say: "We've written 50 episodes, and at this point it's still too expensive to produce." That's it! Not all of this cryptic double-speak bullshit. We're talking about some dopey TV show, not Seal Team fucking 6. You fucking dickhead!

I'm looking forward to seeing the movies on the bigscreen in 3D for the next 6 years. I could car less about a Star Wars TV show. Make Episodes VII, VIII, and IX, dammit! That's what we all want, right? Fulfill your Destiny, George!

Is that a speck of dust or a Cylone destroyer, who knows? Star Wars is bright and energetic, BSG is dark and gray.

Or his collection of Blue Snaggletooths?

Seriously. Fuck off.

Too busy right now though....but it's coming...

http://johnny-flores.blogspot.com/2011/05/evolution-of-lightsaber.html

.....For you people saying George Lucas RAPED YOUR CHILDHOOD, you people are ABSOLUTE scum! The man will go down in history as a pioneer and innovator! He won't even be remembered as a director!!!! You wouldn't even have your Star Wars universe if it weren't for that man! What a bunch of fucking turncoats you are! The reality is Star Wars is his intellectual property and he has no obligation to listen to any of you! If it pisses you off so much, STOP BUYING INTO IT AND IT WILL GO AWAY!!!! As for re-releases of the original trilogy in theaters, bring it on! I was born in 1979 and I never had the opportunity to see those movies on a big screen! This website sucks because it gives you whiny assholes a forum to bitch about something you will end up flocking to any way! God bless America! If you fucking brat film dorks are any indication of even a small percentage of what is out there, this country is fucking doomed!!!!

George should just start measuring his work by the pound. "We've got 11.5 pounds of Star Wars ready to go."

......FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!!! What has George Lucas ever done to you personally?!?! If your existance is that sorry that what someone else does with his own property has such a bearing on you personally, you should just give up and nap your life away! Your mother should have beat you when you were a kid! You probably deserved it, you scumbag!!!!

and that film looked great, some amazing FX... its already been done, so im not sure what the fuck he's talking about. you're telling me that fat fuck cant produce a great looking TV series within that price range???

SOME MONTHS BACK... George Lucas was rumored to have purchased the "rights" to use the likenesses of some old, dead actors. I am beginning to suspect that the next evolution of ILM technology is to reproduce those actors in a very real -- almost seamless -- method. Could you imagine a movie starring a young Orson Welles alongside Leo DiCaprio? While I imagine that polygon limitations of 2011 will give way to the polygon limitations of 2012 -- the difference in a couple of years between the real and the artificial may just be insignificant. After all, some of the newer video games are quite believable. Remember: Lucas created what became "Pixar" years before TOY STORY. ILM pioneered the use of polygon CGI...and it has developed to become the standard method of special effects. The Genesis scene from STAR TREK II is so unimpressive now. I imagine that the obvious blue screen effects today will be seen the same way in a decade. As is, I cringe when I see the 90s effects used for TITANIC. I suspect that Mr. Lucas is searching for a way to make lifelike renditions of characters that are seamlessly integrated into modern non-CGI film. In fact, he could incorporate individuals like Harrison Ford...Alec Guinness...or others into his movies. In fact, he could REMAKE existing movies (using the actors own voice) as well. Could you imagine some of those cheesy movies where the acting was good but the effects were pathetic being repackaged and released?

in Lucas ever making another movie or TV show that doesn't totally suck! Why not hand the Start Wars license over to somebody who gives a shit? And not your kids. They were the reason we got Jar Jar if I remember right.

Kindly remove your dick from Uncle George's Sarlacc pit and get some fucking perspective. If you want to suckle at the teat of the withered remains of what used to be Uncle George's ambition, continue - you'll be rewarded with ever-increasingly senseless, soulless CGI cartoons peppered with human performances so bereft of talent, enthusiasm and passion that your kitchen shelves will look like the cast of GLEE by comparison. And you will fucking deserve it, you pig-fucking sycophant.

Strike me down with all of your anger, and your journey towards the Dark Spud will be complete!! Gimme your best shot - I got some angst I need to offload on here, and yours is just the forehead I need to repeatedly slap with my dick :D

Done with a minimal budget, with a smart and adult (not HBO titties-exploding-from-the-screen style, but more like BSG), and full of character development but peppered with some action set pieces from time to time. This could be done on a lower budget, sort of as a test series to work out any kinks and to prepare audiences for a larger and more ambitious Star Wars TV series with all the requisite elements (big Jedi vs Sith fights, epic space battles, and all manner of exotic alien worlds). Although, I have to say, after seeing Avatar's groundbreaking effects, I am surprised that Lucas isn't gunning for another big budget Star Wars theatrical trilogy that could take advantage of all the new effects technology. That would make more sense as to why they are re-releasing all six Star Wars films in the coming years. I wouldn't be surprised if the 3D Star Wars releases were for renewing people's interest in the Star Wars universe, and to make some dough to fund another trilogy, either something that continues on from Return of the Jedi, or maybe something more detached like an Old Republic set trilogy. I suppose this could all still happen in addition to a TV series as well. If the TV series did really well, then I wouldn't be surprised if Lucas wanted to make some brand new large scale Star Wars theatrical films.

they filmed it via the film-based expensive method and have concluded that it is too expensive for TV?

Just leave it there.

I can just barely imagine the gigantic lens flares that will be burned into my retinas when someone fires up a light saber. Or how about when there is one of the old Star Wars laser gun firefights? Will there be tiny lens flares darting all over the place with each laser round fired? Of course, the mother of them all will be the galactic sized lens flare that occurs when a star destroyer or a death star explodes.

So I'm curious just how expencive that series was? I don't remember a lot of effects, just nice little character stories alternating between boy and teen Indy, but then I haven't seen them since they originally aired in the 90's so I can't vouch for quality. I remember Lucas saying that he was partially doing those in order to earn money in order to make the Prequels, i'm supprised that he can't just use whatever money that he's getting of of The Clone Wars to apply toward this project.

I don't see a single person lamenting the failure/delay of this project. I wonder why?.....

they've instigated the Drone Wars.

It's gold I tell ya, Jerry. Gold!

Grow the fuck up already. He doesn't want to spend 15 mill an episode just to please your fat, lazy, complaining asses who are going to hate it anyways. Guess what? Most people don't give a shit about the theatrical edits. They're childrens films. And you guys saw them as kids. And every day more kids are falling in love with all 6 episodes. You know why? Because they're harmless fun. They have a good message, and they're visually appealing too. The Clone Wars is popular, and yet It's exactly like the prequels. People do like those. I know it's shocking that everyone doesn't think like you do with a shut-off warped mind. Lucas has been successful year after year. The only creative thing you guys have done is create your online username. And even than, it's usually stolen from Star Wars. So until you invent the Lightsaber or the word "Droid", shut the fuck up.

I just can't be mad at the guy who gave us Star Wars and Indiana Jones. No misstep Lucas makes can erase the greatness of those two properties. To think that one guy came up with both of those ideas is just breathtaking.

Grow up and get laid.

Suck it, after all of the endless pontificating about how much the movie would suck and having no faith in Singer/Vaughn. Suck it haters.

Don't care. For all the bitching though about the prequels give me Episode III, on blu-ray.

Making it live action takes away the one cool thing about it. Maybe someone came to their senses.

base it in the future after the first trilogy, have luke return to train the jedi's, open the acadamy, face new threats, showcase the twins that leia and han had. and make it dark and violent and gripping. if hbo can pull it off, george lucas can consider putting it on cable network, why on local tv, where you just get ad revenue, fuck that shit. im sure if one hbo crony, who works in the corporate office read aicn once and while and thought, you know that WOULD be cool. You would be the only network who has done it and who has exclusive rights, i mean box sets, all good shit. But hey we can dream right? Besides george lucas doesnt need to write anymore, everytime his name is mentioned he gets some money... lol.

Let them tell the story post ROTJ. Who writes 50 hours of TV while ignoring budgets and has to wait until it becomes affordable? Also, who cares about the clone wars anyway? Tell us a story that hasn't been told.

he did his shit on babylon 5...

Ok, so George waited 16 years to start filming the prequels, because he wanted advanced technology (CGI) and now, he can't film a freakin TV series...because of money? Really? 50 fuckin hours of script material and with all the money he has, they can't make a live-action Star Wars show? Maybe, he's giving out a bullshit answer, because he needs to find a writer(s) to look over his scripts and give him some lessons on writing, which might take another 16 years to re-write. Seriously, if there's an issue with budget, then go back to writing Episodes 7, 8 and 9; hire some other writers to help and start finding some director candidates...2017 is not that far, far away...

Btw, I just threw 2017 out there for no reason, but I do want to mention this...isn't it funny that Star Trek started out on TV and transitioned into film and back to TV, but Star Wars can't easily make that (light-speed) jump, from film to TV? I love the Star Wars original trilogy. Empire is fuckin brilliant perfection. George is a brilliant, creative person, but he has lost the way to tell stories. His head got way far up the ass of CGI, digital film and green-screen. They are tools, but George doesn't know how to plant the seeds anymore. Got to get away from those garden hoes! I heard the TV show would explore bounty hunters. I'd really be interested in following Bobba's early days of bounty hunting.

Back in the 70s, someone gave Lucas a chance to create Star Wars. Instead of more and more Star Wars, it would be really admirable if Lucas uses his power to do what someone did for him once and give a young filmaker the opportunity to launch a fresh, new science fiction saga.

and the rest and raise enough money to make this. as long as it's good. episode 7.

Discuss.

Easy. Wooden as hell dialogue, and the casting and writing of of Anakin Skywalker. I mean, to put christensen as the main character next to Samuel L. Ewan McGregor and ...the dude who played the emperor... Lucas handed that untalented twit a career when he should be flipping burgers

Not only did he know how to effectively plot a long-running TV series, but he was extremely budget conscious. Babylon 5 cost considerably less than the Star Trek shows of the same era and STILL looked fabulous for the time. Lucas simply doesn't have a clue how to produce TV within a reasonable budget, which is part of why the Young Indy series didn't last long.

I'm kinda surprised no one has even tried.

Unless they make it entirely animated ala Clone Wars; EP 7-9 will never be made.. The actors are just too fucking old to play their characters unless they jump forward to the Legacy of the force novels. And do we really want the Thrawn Trilogy on the screen? i just recently read those and they're fucking boring at best.

They should co-finance the production of the Star Wars TV show in exchange for worldwide exclusivity to their distribution service. That will send huge fucking shock waves throughout the already unstable entertainment industry. The fallout would be beautiful to watch. One last fuck you to the system.

I don't give a fuck. Make some new Star Wars movies. With a new director.

Lucasfilm has hired a team of writers. With all of the expert knowledge here, I would have thought that at least one of you, would have posted that information in this talk back. Honestly, some of you guys should do a little research, before launching into some tiresome tirade, full of bullshit and clueless nonsense. The writing team is not the same team, that writes The Clone Wars. And to the fuck-wit that thinks it would be cool, if some geeks assassinated Lucas, you need to be bitch-slapped repeatedly. It's one thing to not like what a film-maker releases, but to start talking shit like that, is a one way ticket, to an Asylum.

What i was trying to suggest is that Game of Thrones nailed the story telling and characterisation with good actors and minimum CGI and stage sets. I never read any of the novels or was a fan before the TV series commenced. But after first episode i am hooked now due to the good direction and the story and the acting. for me Game of Thrones has nailed the mythic spirit that Lucas had for his first two Star Wars movies and lost afterwards with ROTJ and the prequels. As someone who grew up with the OT has a child i doubt i would want to see Lucas vision of a TV series unless he surrendered all writing and direction to someone else. If not then i am not interested. But i can say that i am really looking forward to future seasons of Game of Thrones on HBO. So why am i so keen on GOT and so underwhelmed with Lucas plan for the TV?

The acting, storytelling, characters, and even the action are fantastic (Bronn vs. Ser Vardis!)...so people like GruntyBear and FRankSimms bitch over and over again about how there aren't enough extras, not enough grand exterior shots, no sense of scale, etc. Now, look, these are valid criticisms, to a point...but this is a goddamn TV show! Hopefully, season 2 will get an upped budget; it will need it for the Battle of Blackwater. BTW, Episode 7 has an exterior shot of the Lannister army that is pretty sweet.

d'oh

go watch Troy. Or Braveheart. Or Alexander. Or any of a number of pieces of garbage not 1/50th as enjoyable as GAme of Thrones.

"They should make X based on X piece of non-canon garbage." We can make it a meme! "They should make a live action TV show based on the Atari 2600 Star Wars game!"

If you want the show to look like it was shot in Kasachstan go ahead an hire JMS.

More Star Wars. Yay. I am so excited. ._.

The ones he removed when Greedo shot first.

It went from being number 1 - the greatest to being a complete joke. With all the prequels and their offshoots, Star Wars is now about 80% shit 20% hit. Not interested in the slightest and by God, I don't know a single person who watches the Clone Wars cartoon but then again I'm in my mid 20s. I watched a few episodes and was gobsmacked at how bad it was. Immediately unwatchable and obviously hackishly done on a whim to pull in kids. The whole franchise is a smelly, terrible mess now. Flush it.

Thank you, Georgie, for sparing us more of the senile drool you call "Star Wars". "The Clone Wars" and that new Muppet movie demonstrate what can happen when dead franchises are unnecessarily resurrected: they stink.

The internet would be better off without all the whiny, repetitive, cynical losers that just don't know life has moved on with out them. I think they destroyed Star Wars more than anyone else. They're an infections that needs some serious scrubbing. I hope they all get a terminable disease from all the hate thats inside them.

The internet would be better off without all the whiny, repetitive, cynical losers that just don't know life has moved on with out them. I think they destroyed Star Wars more than anyone else. They're an infections that needs some serious scrubbing. I hope they all get a terminable disease from all the hate thats inside them.

Hate the Game Master: Lucas!

Oh no George ruined your childhood. Here is a tissue and cry over real things in the world you self absorbed failure. I'm glad life is disappointing for you. Please contribute something to society because so far you're just useless.

Does he whine. Nope. Haterz don't really accomplish anything, contribute anything or really serve a purpose. Its like the internets version of cancer. It feeds on killing things and one day they will die and not be remembered.

Did he touch you? Awww poor babies. I'm so sorry you're fixated on the only franchise thats around. boo hoo

hahahahahah....you fail

is just over. They shit in the bath water long ago. We had the three good movies growing up in the 80's and then Lucas was overtaken by a skrull impostor with absolutely no sense of vision for what his fans wanted.

He is only a crusty decaying shell of the former creative talented artist he once was in a galaxy far, far away. He now represents everything that is wrong with a corporate Hollywood where profits reign at the expense of creativity and originality. He pimped out his own once great art and reduced it to the lowest common denominator cheap Made in China plastic garbage you can buy at Wal*Mart. I don't hate Lucas, I pity him and I hate what he has done with something I once loved. In a way, I guess you are right. For the most part, what has happened to Star Wars is a lot like growing up and realizing that the real world is a lot smaller and cheap than what we imagined when we were children. I just hope that the children of today can dream better dreams than the crap that Lucas is currently crapping out for them.

Lucas will keep thinking about making more coz YOU suckers will always be up to pay for it. More than Lucas it is YOU folks, still stuck in that summer of 79, that need to "move on".

People, people... let's not forget that Star Wars is Lucas's property. He came up with the concept, he wrote it, he made the film largely with his own money. HE owns HIS creation lock, stock and barrel. Now YOU guys are whining because he's not continuing HIS creation the way YOU want him to? I'm a Star Wars fan, no denying...but you take from it what you want and leave the rest. Don't go whining just because you didn't get your own way, or didn't agree with whatever creative decision Lucas took. Let's get real here.

But even I would be dubious of this -- it takes a lot of effort and money to write out fully that many scripts. My bet is that Lucas simply has a rough outline that summarizes the first two seasons of a proposed live-action series (he may be estimating "50 hours" based on two seasons, each season having 26 episodes). Overall, though, this still sounds like a bunch of BS due to him rambling on in the interview without thinking much about what he was saying.

That dirty deluded sob allowed his ego to ruin part of American culture. If any of you ever see him throw a cup full of piss in his face, and tell him you hope a tiger bites his penis off.

Because, from that day to this, no cinema experience has ever or will ever come close to what STAR WARS achieved and meant to us back in the day. And if you cannot understand this, I pity you.

The depth of our hatred from Darth Gizzard comes from the fact that a once-legendary master storyteller has turned the greatest myth/epic fantasy series of all time into a crass, talentless toy commercial designed solely to sell shit for money. The Original Trilogy is fucking anything BUT that - it's a trilogy of immense beauty, because it speaks to a primal part of ourselves about sacrifice, honour, duty, courage, love, destiny, and about becoming everything that you are capable of being. It's as pure and unsullied as a fairy tale, and as meaningful and resonant as a religious experience.

The Prequel Trilogy, meanwhile, seems to exist solely to shit on the memory of what greatness Lucas was once capable of. It's the act of a Creator pissing on his own creation. For money. Don't tell me to ignore that just because said Creator has gone fucking batshit insane and decided to throw the one-fingered Fuck You to all the fans of the OT whose dedication to this saga got him where he fucking is now in the first place. No dollars from the fans = NO FUCKING ILM OR LFL.

Suck that, you fucking apologists. You don't get it, and you never fucking will.

Go cry into your Ben 10 duvet, you fucking moron. Boo hoo, someone disagreed with you. Take it like a man, instead of the bitch you currently appear to be.

As for accusing others of not accomplishing anything... erm, you appear to be in this fucking basement with the rest of us, you deluded wanksplat. If the highest accomplishment you've achieved thus far is to tell a bunch of Star Wars geeks to get a life... I don't think Obama's worrying about you running for President any time soon, you fucking loser.

...Let;s say I own a horse. A very beautiful, masterful looking beast, that regularly wins dressage contests due to all the time and attention I spend on lavishing the very best of care on that horse. The horse becomes a legend. In the field of dressage, this is the greatest horse ever seen.

Then, two decades on, I release an art book of me fucking that horse, in every orifice, in every conceivable position, every which way I can. Because I own that horse, does that make it a worthy sequel to all the stuff I accomplished with that horse two decades earlier??

'Cos that's what Uncle George did, folks. He just keeps on fucking that once-great stallion...

...are among the reasons why I've been hanging out here for the past 12 odd (very odd at times) years. Nowhere else on the whole web can I read horse fucking as a metaphor to make a well reasoned counter argument. My hat is off to you. You make a good point.

....And remember, take nothing personally, I'm merely howling into the uncaring void with my rants. But I would punch Uncle George in the fucking neckbag if I ever met him for what he's done to sully that OT. Believe THAT.

But thank you. I'm flattered :D

...of the woodwork about halfway through any Star Wars talkback. They're so transparent. It's usually the plants that have the Star Wars screen names, BTW, not the fanboys. I think many of us OT fans HAVE moved on. I haven't watched even one episode of that Clone Wars cartoon and have no desire to. And I'm still not convinced that series is as big a hit as the Lucas fanboys say it is. I see tons of those toys sitting on the racks at the store and no kids ever buy them.

...you can never make it go away. Your opinions and your gargled shit-talk, means absolutely nothing, as Star Wars continues to be a lucrative franchise, thirty-four years after the first film was released. It ain't going away and all of your infantile/misinformed online rebelling only serves as a promotion for the Star Wars brand. You're doing more good than harm to the brand, as long as you discuss it in some capacity. If you stop paying attention to Star Wars, then you might help it go away, but as it stands - it's not going anywhere. Think about that, when you're lining up to buy your BluRay Saga sets. You know you will, because Lucas owns all you fuckers - he's got you by the balls, because you can't leave his shit alone. "He....is your master now"

...they wouldn't be doing a fourth season, with a fifth in the works. Stop hanging around toy aisles.

I'm not even on the same continent as ILM or LFL; I just know the fucking deal. Get a clue, piss-ants.

And Transformers are kicking Star Wars ass in the toy store. I guess the kids are moving on as well. If these shadows remain unchanged, I see an empty chair where Tiny Star Wars once sat.

For Cartoon Network, the ratings for it are not much of an issue since they don't own the series nor did they invest their money into it. It's all Lucasfilm. The series is not subject to being cancelled due to low ratings because Lucasfilm already invested themselves in cranking out 5 full seasons of it. (I'm not saying the ratings are low; I don't know if they are -- just saying that its ratings are not a factor at all whether the series continues to its pre-planned fifth and final season.)

Lucas ruined the greatest science fiction franchise of all time with his horrible writing and directing. Unless we unite and attack him when he comes out in public, he will never know this due to being delusional. Imagine if he'd actually allowed a real writer and a director like Spielberg to have a shot at the prequels as all the best film makers wanted? Lucas is the most hated figure in all of geekdom.

Whenever George needs a monetary fix, or feels the need to fuck something...he opens up the cellar where he keeps his by now despised and deformed creation and bangs out another love child to sell on the open market. Really..at this point the property is all but begging for a bullet to end it all.

all the adult leaning things his collaboration with Kurtz, Kasdan, and Kershner gave us; put it in an ego filled statistical marketing cask provided by Hasbro, added the pain of his divorce, sprinkled it with his loathing for the property he created and 2 decades later poured out Jar Jar Binks, Midichlorians and Jake Fucking Lloyd. Just leave the fucking corpse lie George...let it rest with some shred of dignity you greedy necrophiliac.

He is is stunningly inept at both I cannot decide. All he cares about is himself, he thinks the fans are pieces of shits, he has openly said this many times. Lucas hates you. You should return the favor, attack him if you ever see him.

The kids these days are inundated with so much media these days that the current sub-par Star Wars is just a blip on the radar. George's most die-hard fans will always be amongst the Gen-Xers and he's managed to alienate most of those (just look at any Star Wars talkback).

Georgie Pie.... Enough with the goddamn mfing cut-scenes that you call a movie. The VG cut scenes from Starcraft II or even FFXIII are more engaging than your stupid prequels. The death star attack at the end of ANH was light years better than any battle scene in the prequels because it was well edited (thanks Marcia) and had relevant characters. I caught the battle scene at the end of AOTC on Spike the other days and was marveled at how little it matters to the story. I am playing through KOTOR I and II right now and it is embaressing that staff writers at Bioware smoked your ass with your own universe.

But it baffles me how anyone not on George's payroll would defend him at this point. They always hit all at once in the middle of these talkbacks with the same played-out "talking points" they've been using since 1999 and then bail. Even saying you still love Star Wars: George promises you a live-action TV series, even sets a tentative release date, then goes back on his word with a lame excuse... and you defend this?

It's strange this hasn't yet.

I'm assuming that Lucas, like what they're doing with Clone Wars, would only want to produce a live-action series if he could afford to pay for 5 full seasons of it. (Like Clone Wars, he doesn't want a live-action series to be vulnerable to being cancelled due to low ratings.) But realistically rolling the numbers pretty much shows it would cost him far less (both in terms of money invested and time) to just crank out a sequel movie trilogy instead. A live-action series would inevitably have to cut corners in terms of budget -- production-wise, it would probably have to be something like Babylon 5 or Battlestar Galactica 2003 -- lots of "bottle ship" episodes. I figure Lucas would be loathe to do a series like this.

Just make aother Star Wars film? Look at all the Harry Potter and Lords of the Rings. People are always jumping up and down about the prequels but I think they were made for the 5 year old audience. To me Star Wars doesn't really work without Vader on screen but I guess to a 5 year old this wouldn't matter and George was still able to tell the story he wantted. I think of original trilogy for 8 year olds. If he made the Old Republic picture he could aim a bit higher say,teenagers. Hire some screenwriters and get Steven to direct it since he has always wanted to direct a Star Wars picture. George has always been at his best behind the scenes as creative consultant.

Thank you sir for kicking metalmoshinbert75 in his/her parents basement dwelling non-existent genitals.

to make another Star Wars film is that Sir John Williams is still with us! Think about that. That's 50% of your movie. ( and the sound fx)

"Game of Thrones has literally no CGI" What the hell are you talking about? GoT has CG mats all over the place. Not to mention CG background extensions in many of the dialogue scenes (behind the foreground and background action and outside windows etc.) Dislike Star Wars and Lucas all you want, but when you make an argument, at least get your facts straight. GoT may not have as many CG effects as a Lucasfilm production, but they are there in abundance.

"It cant be done" is, ironically, Luke's attitude to the challenge of raising an X wing Fighter from the Dagobah swamps. Yoda/Kershner's response is to produce one of star wars defining moments using a puppet, some cables, a set, a prop and one of the most memorable movie scores of all time. Emotion, wonder, gravity and spectacle are squeezed into a scene that shows the two sides of what Luke can become, the scene is a microcosm of ESB and the entire OT at the same time, and it uses less sophisticated special effects than George Melies used in the 1920's. Like the X wing the Star Wars Saga is sinking fast in a pit of turgid story, poor 'look at me' CGI and infantile dialogue and while Luke-as conitines to whinge that a Star Wars TV series "cant be done" ignoring Yoda - in the guise of all genre Tv from 60s Star Trek to 2011 Game of Thrones - it wont be. The only difference is that in 1980 I wanted that X wing out of the swamp and I was willing it to happen as much as Yoda was, but in 2011 the only place for a used Xwing fighter is eBay with the hope that there are still mugs out there who think Yoda is at his best when he's flipping around the screen like Daffy Duck.