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Robimus
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7/19/07 8:22pm
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RE: Rick Mcallum at Celebration Europe
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leelee posted:
G-FETT posted:
GARTH_MAUL posted:
Cool beans.
Anything on SW: Clone Wars?
Unfortunatly, and perhaps surprisingly, no. I would have thought, as its on our screens in just a few months, that Rick would be pushing this quite heavily, but unfortunatly, not. 
actually there was. Rick said that it's going well and they already had 15 episodes written.
As for the rest that is so unbelievably exciting!!!! 100 episodes is five and a half seasons...400?? That's too much to even comprehend, but the whole "several series" thing has me confused too
Remember Young Indy. It jumped around to different timelines/ages of Indiana Jones. Even did one of Indy as an old man with Harrison Ford. I think the several series statement could be something like that. Some post ROTS shows, some post ROTJ shows. 400 does sound very optimistic when we havn't seen one yet, but I hope its right. I could watch this stuff for the rest of my life and not get bored of it.
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Dark Lady Mara
Title: Manager Emeritus
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7/24/07 3:38am
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Jango_Fettish posted:
BlackPool posted:
But that's not the same as having a desire to please the fans which I think he lost a long time ago.
Are you serious? Remember when he cut all of JarJar's scenes out of ROTS?
Okay, so that's one thing he did to please fans. How about cutting Jar Jar from AotC, getting a script editor to clean up the Anakin/Padme crap, releasing the O-OT on DVD, letting Han shoot first, etc etc? Let's be honest - pleasing fans is not Lucas' first priority right now, nor do I think it ever has been. He's doing this stuff for himself, and he has no reason to care whether people pay to see it en masse or not. He's fine either way.
Also, Billy, I was expecting that to be a link to a Star Trek site. 
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BlackPool
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7/24/07 3:45pm
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Dark Lady Mara posted:
He's doing this stuff for himself, and he has no reason to care whether people pay to see it en masse or not. He's fine either way.
I'm not so sure I would go that far. I bet if the live action series flops right out of the gate, I don't think he'd be too fine with that nor do I think he would continue making and paying for episodes just for himself knowing no one else cares to watch. I just think he takes his success and the fan's appreciation for granted.
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Dark Lady Mara
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Define flop, though. It doesn't have to top the Nielsen ratings for it to be a success. There are enough fans out there who'll watch it regardless that he's not going to lose money, at least.
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Jango_Fettish
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7/26/07 5:46am
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Dark Lady Mara posted:
Okay, so that's one thing he did to please fans. How about cutting Jar Jar from AotC, getting a script editor to clean up the Anakin/Padme crap, releasing the O-OT on DVD, letting Han shoot first, etc etc? Let's be honest - pleasing fans is not Lucas' first priority right now, nor do I think it ever has been. He's doing this stuff for himself, and he has no reason to care whether people pay to see it en masse or not. He's fine either way.
Also, Billy, I was expecting that to be a link to a Star Trek site.
Well, he did hire a dialog coach for ROTS. And I don't know about you, but I own the O-OT on DVD. It might not be the best quality, but it is something he said he would never do... and then the fans complained.
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BlackPool
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Dark Lady Mara posted:
Define flop, though. It doesn't have to top the Nielsen ratings for it to be a success. There are enough fans out there who'll watch it regardless that he's not going to lose money, at least.
The only point I was wanting to make here was that Lucas would indeed care if people didn't watch and he really was making SW shows just for himself with no one to care enough to watch. I doubt he would bother with Star Wars after that and so when we get right down to it, he is not just doing all this for himself alone. In all reality, Star Wars is such a success, the title alone will carry it a long way.
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WookieeWarrior9
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Not sure if you guys get or read SW Insider, but in the newest issue there's an interview with Rick and he talks a bit more about the series and having it branch off into four or five series in the span of a few years. Very interesting and I can't wait to finally see it!
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Jango_Fettish
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I hate to say it, but don't get too excited. Most of what Rick has said in the past turned out to either be greatly exaggerated or completely wrong. He kind of enjoys misinforming the fans I think.
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WookieeWarrior9
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I'm well aware of Rick not being one to trust too much, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm very much looking forward to this. Soon, BSG will be over, and that and The Office are really the only two shows I watch. I expect the Clone Wars series to be fun and great, but I'm looking forward to the live-action show just a little bit more.
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Jango_Fettish
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Well I am with you there. Although there are many shows on TV that I currently enjoy, the live action show is going to be more than that. Its as close as we can get to new movies - and yet its really just as good, seeing as we will be getting far more screen time than any film.
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G-FETT
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9/3/07 12:16pm
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WookieeWarrior9 posted:
Not sure if you guys get or read SW Insider, but in the newest issue there's an interview with Rick and he talks a bit more about the series and having it branch off into four or five series in the span of a few years. Very interesting and I can't wait to finally see it!
Sounds interesting. I'll look out for Star Wars Magazine when it its the news stands. 
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vong333
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I don't thnk that is going to happen, and it don't bode well with me  . 4 to 5 different series of 13 to 15 episodes each? Thats ridiculous and retarded. They were better off just making the straight 100 hours of cohernet stuff than all this possible broken stuff. Okay, yeah its going to be more character oriented, but don't we have that with the novels and the comic books all ready? I don't want some stupid back story on joe blow who decides to become a mini- Luke Skywalker for a bunch of episodes. Man the live action idea just keeps getting worse and worse. For all this, why not create new star wars movies? Something is starting to tell me that GL and Lucasfilm are just really a two hit wonder (Star Wars and Indiana Jones) with the excpetion of American Graffitti.
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WookieeWarrior9
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So they're a three hit wonder...
Anyway, I really like idea of short seasons. Most summer series, such as the 4400, Eureka, or Rescue Me, do the 12-13 episode seasons. I've heard guys like Ronald D. Moore (show runner of BSG) say that if he had his way, he'd do shorter seasons because it allows the writers to make the writing that much tighter. The more episodes you do, the more scripts the writers have to crank out and the more "filler" episodes you have to make. And since this sounds like it's going to at least be partly serialized, it would allow them to keep the hype and ratings high for each season. Most serialized dramas show a consistent decline in ratings the longer the show goes on because the amount of time the viewer has to invest to stay with the story. I'm very biased, but I'd rather see them do shorter seasons and make extremely good episodes instead of a 20 episode season that's just okay.
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vong333
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No I don't like the idea, cause we don't know hat type of characters their creating in the first place. Its like taking Capt. Kirk from the tv series and creating a seperate series on his advetures with Starfleet, or the guy from the Heros series (Jap dude) and creat a seperate series of him and his new found powers. Don't like it. Its better for them to start from a certain point, inroduce the charcters and the situations and progress it through the seasons. We see character growth, cohesive action and we push the storytelling forward, which I hope will be close to the beginning of Episode 4, amking the live action a true part of the over all star wars saga, instead of some cheap way to cash in on a phenomenon or add skimpy EU stories just for the sake of more comic books, novels, and toys.
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