Author Topic: *Official* Live Action Series General Thread (spoilers - 2012 airdate)
darth_degnan  159 posts
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Date Posted: 10/29/08 2:33pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
Robimus posted:


Too bad he didn't tell Daniel tongue

Of course Mr. Logan could be keeping his cards close and I think he'd still fit in quite well as an 18 year old Boba Fett. Still he came across to me as being completely in the dark. happy


Daniel Logan is horrible. He looks like a push-over, not a hardened bounty hunter. Hopefully, he won't be part of the series. Otherwise, the legend of Boba Fett will be further ruined.

 

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black_saber  3366 posts
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Date Posted: 10/30/08 10:56am Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
I just hope Vader will be in some of the scenes for the live action series.

 

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Arawn_Fenn  10379 posts
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Date Posted: 11/1/08 11:30am Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
Sweeps week!!! tongue

 

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JasonW 
Registered: Oct '08
Date Posted: 11/1/08 2:23pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
I see that posted a lot. Cable doesn't have sweeps.

 

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Robimus  3706 posts
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Date Posted: 11/1/08 5:13pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
darth_degnan posted:


Daniel Logan is horrible. He looks like a push-over, not a hardened bounty hunter. Hopefully, he won't be part of the series. Otherwise, the legend of Boba Fett will be further ruined.



Other actors could be used, but there would be some continuity from film to live action series if Daniel was used. I'm sure he wouldn't have a adunbance of un-masked scenes anyway.

Whoever they pick I hope they mimic the mannerisms used by Jeremy Bulloch in the ESB and ROTJ. The actors tossed into uniform for the special additions didn't do the trick for me. I still shudder everytime I see Boba Fett flirting with the dancing girl..... praying

 

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black_saber  3366 posts
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Date Posted: 11/10/08 11:51am Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
LordHibbidyhai posted:
I think Xizor would be great. Some newly re-emerging Black Sun Syndicate vs. The Hutt crime empire, with the bounty hunters, smugglers and others caught in the middle, all under the watchful eye of the Empire.


Watchful, more like coluded with the Empire which it gives the rebel allinece more enemys even thou not all smugglers are bad.

 

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starjedi66 
Registered: Nov '08
Date Posted: 11/22/08 7:57pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show - Date Edited: 11/22/08 8:02pm (2 edits total) Edited By: starjedi66
SaberJedi2 posted:
WookieeWarrior9 posted:
Durwood posted:
[quote=SaberJedi2]I agree with you that I think the attempt to make the show have the same production quality as the movies, but not necessarily the shinyness. I'm very curious how they're going to get the costs to be that low...but if there is anyone to do it, I'd bet on George Lucas seeing as he's paved the way for how movies are made today.

George Lucas gets a "discount" on all ILM work. I seem to recall him once saying that if he had to pay market rate for the prequels then they would have cost two- to three-times as much to make.


Well they all cost around $110M to make. That's practically low budget for your average big summer box office movie these days. lol


""True, but that's for 2-2.5 hours of movie. We're talking a third to half of that (~42 mins without commercials if it's on a network or an hour for something like HBO). That would make each show around $37-$55 mil per episode. Trying to get that down to only a couple of million could prove difficult.[/quote]""
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Your adorable happy ..thats now how TV compares to movies. Your forgetting a thousand variables

Like, advertising, distribution, enormous casts with enormous salaries, I could go on forever of how much different it is. Battlestar Galactica has a very slick look. Lucas owns ILM--he is gonna have no problem with his budget

About the content.
He is making a big mistake with his time period. I think he doesnt understand he needs much more than SW fans to dominate in the ratings. Networks will drop a show after only 9 episodes if the thing isnt pulling in a certain age group. Adult content and not cute little aliens is gonna have be the format---but to draw in everyone it cant be a sideshow of familiar events

It needs to be totally new with NEW iconic heroes--NOT a cast of sidekicks. They have to either go to a new Jedi order or the Old Republic. You dont leave out your top draw--which is the Jedi. They are the money and are a proven winner. How the Jedi were born will not get canceled. Everything will be New and mystery will rule the show. I think the Cartoon Net series proves that filler stories dont feel real, they have no weight--no importance. I like them because I am a SW fanatic. Kids like them because they like animation action. But as I said--they need to pull in like 6 million non SW fanatics to avoid getting canceled and some unimportant stories that only fanatics like is not gonna cut it.
So dont think of what YOU like...think about what avoids cancellation

 

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Date Posted: 11/22/08 8:28pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
The flaw in your claim is that you assume they need to focus on Jedi to be successful, While Jedi have certainly been centr stage for the past 9 years, that might open up a backlash to exploit where they can focus on the non-Jedi heroes that populated the focus of most of the OT (or ANh, at the very least) and find success by renewed interest in that facet of the SW mythos.

 

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MercenaryAce  2804 posts
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Date Posted: 11/22/08 8:30pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
I think you are the one who is making the mistake.

Which trilogy is the one everyone hates on? The one with the jedi front and center.

Which is the one everyone loves? The one that features a cast of mostly ragtag rebels and smugglers.

I think sometimes overestimate the appeal of jedi in star wars at the expense of all the other elements, particularly the fringe characters like Han and Jabba. I always felt star wars was at least a trinity: the military, the spiritual (jedi) and the used universe (especially criminals and adventurers). At least mind you.

I think a show centered on them could work very well. Particularly with a show right now focusing on the jedi and war elements.

 

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darthlebowski72  5783 posts
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Date Posted: 11/27/08 6:28pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
It would be cool to see a show about the smugglers/bounty hunters and the roles they play in the birth of the Alliance. One advantage GL would have if making the new series would be that the OT looked dirty and dingy and used old-school technology, which is considerably cheap these days. It says in the OT DVD that they tore up thousands of battleship models to make make the surface of the Death Star for filming. I think if he used modern-day CGI the cost would skyrocket.

 

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HookLineAndSinker  16790 posts
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Date Posted: 12/1/08 5:10am Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
At this point in my star wars fandom career, it's difficult to imagine what could possibly be shown in 100 episodes that take place between ROTS and ANH that would interest the base.

I mean this would seriously have to be a well produced show. No shortcuts on the special effects and honestly, the acting is going to have to step it up a notch. Personally, if it was set to be on HBO or Showtime I'd say it has a chance, but it won't be and thus my mind falls back on that miserable Generation X tv series that failed long before the X-Men movie came out.

Also, 2011 and 2012 seem to be a JC lifetime away.

 

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Palp_Faction  689 posts
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Date Posted: 12/6/08 4:57pm Subject: What's going on with the Live Action show
I'm looking forward to this show alot. I don't really care about the Clone Wars or what happened 4000 years ago. I want to see the Dark Times period. I find Jedi boring with their wizardry antics. I want to see more of the normal people take centre stage like rebels, imperials, bounty hunters and smugglers.

 

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Darth_Pevra  105 posts
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Date Posted: 12/7/08 4:13am Subject: What's going on with the Live Action show - Date Edited: 12/7/08 4:14am (1 edits total) Edited By: Darth_Pevra
What I want to see:

Scum and Villany: Smugglers, bounty hunters and all that jazz
Imperial Intrigue: our heroes get drawn in in some sort of plot/web, best with Vader or Palpy pulling the strings, hey maybe they could include a conspiracy to overthrow Palpatine! praying
The military: imperial Officers and their takes on things
first resistance cells: I guess they would function like terrorists, so no "all herorism" but rather "many shades of grey"

 

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icqfreak  1929 posts
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Date Posted: 12/20/08 11:26am Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
Any chance the show could air in fall of 2009? I'm guessing probably not, so hopefully it's 2010 at the latest. I hope one of the 4 main networks gets it, not sci-fi or fx, and definetly not hbo as I don't get that.

 

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Dark Lady Mara  26473 posts
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Date Posted: 12/20/08 8:14pm Subject: RE: What's going on with the Live Action show
Are they even still on track for 2010? I feel like we've not been hearing enough about the show lately.

 

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