Disney really wants to land the live action series, and expand SW at MGM.

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For the record, Jim Hill Media is a very, very reliable Disney information website.

 

Disney, eh?

Disney's fire seems to have been dying out over the last decade or so, with PIXAR being one of their sole saving graces. But I guess it all depends on who's working on it.

 

Well, as far as the TV series is concerned, it sounds like Disney is only trying to get the broadcast rights. The show itself (content, directing, etc.) would still be separate from Disney.

 

I can't wait for MGM to convert the space in between Indy and Star Wars. Maybe they will convert that restaurant into the cantina.

 

Since Disney owns ABC I wonder if it would air on that. I can't really picture it on the Disney channel since its not network t.v. "Lucas Land" sounds like a dream come true though!

 

Yes the Jim Hill article mentioning thast it'd air on both ABC and ABC Family while Fox is offering them a similar deal to air on FOX and FX.

 

heh heh yeah I kind of skimmed over that before I posted. Anyway I think that's really exciting news. I'm happy to hear the competition for the show and that it will get plenty of promotion

 

Interesting. I kinda figfured Lucas would keep his old connections. So, the 3D Cartoon would be aired on the Cartoon Network and the live action series would be aired on FOX, was alwways my assumption. But, I guess not?

Good find anyway. Thanks for sharing.

 

Disney has been very lucky to have PIXAR, Pirates, and the High School Musical stuff. Hopefully, lucas dosn't go this direction.

 

Disney better stay AWAY from this show! Disney is a franchise KILLER! Just like the new Muppet Show series we got last year. What Muppet Show? Exactly!

 

Disney wouldn't have any involvement really besides reaping the benefits, just like they do with Pixar. They just put their name on it. I think it'd be a good move for it to be on abc. I think the show would last longer if it was on that than fox. Fox pulls a lot of shows before giving them a chance but abc already is keeping lost until its end date of 2010.

 

yeah... I am for that just so we can get an updated Star Tours Ride... lol. I have loved that ride since I was like 3.

 

That's a fantastic idea Quest. Makes a ton of sense.

 

This has pretty much been my dream since they first announced the live action show. That might be too much awesomeness for me to handle in one night though.

 

That's what I am hoping for.

 

WHen you do the math though - it doesn't really work. Lost's last season starts Jan 2010?

 

So I guess Star Tours 2.0 will add the option of flying through one of the exciting space battles in the PT...oh...

Never mind.

 

Even if it did fit timing-wise, with Lost dropping so tremendously in quality each season and its writers clearly having no discipline (to the point that they needed an end-date because they have no idea how to structure their show), i'd rather see SW head-up its own night.

I'm a Lost fan, have been since the beginning, and frankly it amazes me how quickly the show has been degrading. The latter half of last season was better, but only because the first half of the season was so weak.

 

The later part of season 3 is the high point of the series for me, and a lot of people I know. But even if you do not agree, you should see there is a good chance the show will improve. The defined end for the show will help out a lot, seeing as the creators can now head in the direction they want to go in without worrying about stretching it out with filler to fulfill a longer contract with ABC. I mean with the ending to S3, and the rumors of where it is going this year, it looks like they have been planning the series at least somewhat from the beginning.


This is actually one of the reasons I am glad Lucas gave us that "100 hours" estimate so long ago. When a show knows how long it is going to run for, those plotting it can have an ending in mind and think of a good way to stretch the show out and plot out the story ahead of time. That way it won't run into the problem Lost had - having the writers wondering how much longer they have to add in filler to extend the plot. The main reason they wanted an end date was so they wouldn't keep just adding filler to stretch the show out a few more years, just so they can get canceled and never tell the whole story they wanted to tell from the start.

 

I am hoping that Lindehoff et al are able to pick it back up and make the next season of Lost better. I just lost (no pun intended ) faith in them a while back. It's a cop-out for the writers to say that the open-endedness of the series was stifiling for them -- that just shows that they're not sufficiently talented to be able to tell a story without someone telling them when to stop. That's just poor. Countless serial TV series have been able to tell compelling stories without knowing when to stop. I understand their point of view, but it's still a cop out. Hopefully next season they'll have finally stopped (as they tended to do last half of last season) with the "let's keep throwing stuff out there and make stuff up as we go along!" mojo.

And hopefully they'll stop firing people from the cast because of supposed "personal" issues amongst the cast.

 

Season 3 was very good during the second half. Most people that have stuck with the show agrees.

 

That's why the SW TV series needs Joss Whedon on its writing staff. He is famous for planning out his TV series in adance.

 

Well, if we believe the rumours, Lucas has spent all this time since ROTS plotting and planning out this show?

 

Joss Whedon is the last person I would want touching SW. Not my cup of tea at all.