A live action and a new animated SW series?? (From the Marketing meeting)

i would rather see that than doing any of the books. i want something original, not something i already know. plus, only about 5% of the eu books are worth reading anyway. they fill the void, but they aren't that great in quality.

 

We should accept the fact that while any SWTV may have EU characters (and that's a biiig "may"), we will not be seeing any adaptations of existing EU novels or comics.

Lucasfilm just doesn't work that way - it'd be like Paramount filming Star Trek novels> not gonna happen.

And what would be the point from both a financial and creative point of view? None of those novels or comics would benefit from an adaptation - they are what they were created to be and they were not created to be the basis for future film and TV shows. The water don't flow that way.

Also - we won't be seeing Rebellion or post-Rebellion eras either. All the creative meat of the SW timeline is prequels and earlier. I don't think you could sell a wide appeal TV show that happens after the end of the story.

I still want a Jango Fett is Clint Eastwood meets James Bond in the decaying cities, teeming jungles, and Wild Wests of Outer Space show -

so everybody, say with me STAR WARS: BOUNTY HUNTER!! That's the show we want!!

 

That's a matter of personal opinion- I'd say it's more like 85%.

and that's my point, a live action tv show, to be realistic, needs to grab as much of the star wars community as possible and some casual viewers in order to stay on the air. there is a large group of people in our community who do not like the majority of the eu, and alienating them from a live action tv show decreases the chances of the show being successful. eu characters are not a problem, as long as there are also readily recognizable characters for the casual viewer. but rehashing eu stories, i agree, just isn't going to work.

cartoon's would be a better medium to realize existing eu, it doesn't require as large an audience and would probably be more cost effecive.

and comparing the star wars eu literature to the Lord of the Rings is ridiculous, imho. LOTR is considered by many to be classic fantasy literature, appealing to a far broader audience than star wars literature. star wars literature isn't even in the same league, and really only appeals to those of us who are already star wars nuts.

 

My god, this sounds awesome. "Too much like Star Trek?" In what sense? In that it would be an hour long sci-fi drama / adventure show?

There are tons of those that have been done quite successfully...

And frankly, there's a bit of a void right now for TV watchers like myself with regards to sci-fi / fantasy...

Hercules and Xena are gone, but they weren't really the best anyway.

ST:TNG and DS9 are gone, Voyager's gone, but who cares, and my area doesn't get UPN, but ST:Enterprise isn't very good.

Farscape is gone. Buffy is gone.

This really, really, really sucks, frankly. And hell, I say pull Mark Hamill out of Jedi retirement and you're good to go insofar as I'm concerned.

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All you do is set it up during a period that the EU hasn't covered yet, simple as that - it's the same thing new novel authors do, why not with a TV show?

Not only that, what would be the harm of a show that didn't completely follow EU continuity?

For example, I read X-Men comic books. I also watched the cartoon show as a kid, but that was completely different continuity-wise, but I still loved it because they saved the important part, the characters and the major themes. Same thing with the movie, and the same thing with the new Ultimate X-Men, a modern-day retelling of the story... all of them are good, only one of them is "real continuity," or "canon."

 

Well, since the grapevine is saying that they're talking about both a live-action and animated show, here's my thoughts (just shy of predictions)....

For anything Rebellion-era or after featuring the main characters, the most logical route to go is animation. With Harrison Ford commanding big bucks for the big screen, and some of the actors not physically fitting the mental picture the post-RotJ books paint of them, animation overcomes those hurdles. As for voice casting, Hamill might be willing (given his prolific voice acting resume in the past decade or so), and they could possibly also pursue Perry King, Ann Sachs, and/or any of the other radio drama voice actors. Safe bet that Anthony Daniels would sign up, as well.

For live-action, I'd suggest a Tales of the Jedi/Knights of the Old Republic timeframe. It could allow for the Jedi action that the casual viewer would probably expect and has a larger unexplored window of time to play in. I'd also say that a Rogue Squadron series could work well in live action, but - just as I'd be wary of any filmed project sprung from the Star Trek: New Frontier novels without author Peter David strongly involved - I'd be a bit wary of a Rogue Squadron series without Mike Stackpole involved.

 

well, 2ndquest i guess we have a difference in opinion of the quality of the star wars eu. and i don't necessarily agree with most of your arguments, because, like most of mine, they are just opinion. but on a different note, isn't it pretty great that lucasfilm is even considering this and we can hash these ideas out?!

 

...and hey, who said Farscape is gone? Check cinescape.com, there's a press conference coming up with the Jim Henson company to announce more Farscape, so that show is DECIDEDLY not dead yet.

But yes, there is, otherwise, a void in the genre right now. And for the next several years, I'm willing to bet. Whoever's first to fill that might be the king of sci-fi for the next few TV seasons.

Looks like Star Wars in some kind of format on TV might fill the gap just nicely.

Ah well, just my two cents.

 

I know how they can do a live TV show and still keep the budget down...

...set the show on modern Earth! It would be just like Galactica 1980. Some Jedi could travel to Earth somehow and the show would be about their wacky adventures.

*ducks*

 

I would love to see stories from the EU used in live action or cartoons.

I was six when ROTJ came out and while I enjoyed watching the OT as a child, Star
Wars never pulled me in. My Star Wars action figures never got the love and attention my GI Joe's and Transformers enjoyed! Then, as a teen, when I read the Thrawn Trilogy, I was amazed at how enthralling the Star Wars Universe actually was. The books passed to my parents, close family, and some friends and we all became born-again fans. I'm 26 now, and like most of you, I'm a Star Wars nut! All thanks to the EU.

That being said, however, I would also like to see new stories just for the fact that I want to see or read as many different Star Wars stories as I can.

On a side note: It's funny how people are complaining about EU, when the fact is that anything created after Episode 3 is going to be EU anyway (whether it's based on existing EU or new material). So you're arguing about using EU material in the EU, hmmm.

 

Yeah, 2ndquest, I guess you're right.

But at the same time, I always used to hope and daydream that they'd get Hamill back as Luke Skywalker in some form or fashion in some EU tv show... Perhaps maybe I'd just played a bit too much Wing Commander III at the time, but whatever.

It seems they've flash-forwarded continuity to an almost unrecognizable state 30 years later with Yuuzhan Vong running around and all sorts of crazyness. So maybe that couldn't be done now, and Hamill really isn't aging terribly well.

I'd still say it'd be cool to have a TV show set after ROTJ, even if it were an elseworlds, "Infinities-style" storyline.

 

i still don't agree that lucas won't blow eu continuity out of the water if he wants, but even though i'm not a huge fan of the eu, 2nd quests idea would probably be alright. i still think it would work better as a cartoon, and i would hope that only the better stories in the eu would be used, because i still say 95% of the books are pretty terrible. most are the same story over and over, superweapon built, superweapon destroyed, yippee! i just don't think that most of the stories in the eu are good enough to make a tv series out of.

 

I remember an interview with Rick McCallum, in Star Wars Insider magazine, about location scouting for Episode III(for Photo Plates). He mentioned a great location in Rumania or somewhere close by, with great Architecture for filming, but that it would not be used for Episode III. Rick said he might use it for a future project maybe he was thinking about the rumored live action TV project. Rick McCallum got his start Producing on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, it's possible that he might Produce another Series.

 

i still like the idea of a young(er?) yoda series, but the cgi would probably make it too expensive.

 

the clone wars canon? thread made me think of this, but hasn't george himself said the only thing that is canon is the movies? i think i remember that comment being attributed to him. that could have great bearing on how a star wars tv show is realized.

 

the clone wars canon? thread made me think of this, but hasn't george himself said the only thing that is canon is the movies? i think i remember that comment being attributed to him. that could have great bearing on how a star wars tv show is realized.

You're wrong, but we're not going to be debating canon here.

So no more lines of discussion along those lines...

 

what am i wrong about, that george said that or that it will have bearing on a possible tv show? and why can't we discuss why george saying that would or wouldn't have an effect on the direction of a tv show?

 

Because a) you're misquoting (hence, wrong) and b) we're not entertaining canon debates here on this Forum.

 

And hell, I say pull Mark Hamill out of Jedi retirement and you're good to go insofar as I'm concerned.

I agree with TheJediMonkey. I don't care if it's a movie, tv show or cartoon. I must see an older Luke Skywalker kicking butt and taking names. I would perfer it be live action but if Hamill is only the voice in a cartoon that would be ok as well.

 

I agree with TheJediMonkey. I don't care if it's a movie, tv show or cartoon. I must see an older Luke Skywalker kicking butt and taking names. I would perfer it be live action but if Hamill is only the voice in a cartoon that would be ok as well.

If it were Luke Skywalker vs. The Joker -- would he do BOTH voices?!?

[face_shocked]

 

Yes. Yes he would.

 

I'm really trying but I can't possibly imagine a live-action Star Wars series not sucking.