TV Discussion Would The Live Action Series Be The Same As We Were Promised (If It ever happens)

With Rebels, the anthology movies and whatnot being released and all being canon, is the original plan for the (still unmade) live action star wars TV series still possible in it's original form or would it have to be severely re-written to fit in within the NEU?

 

I consider it unwise to believe statements made will actually occur. Way things have been going it looks they'll do whatever suits them regardless of older claims. Consistency would be nice.

 

I don't think it will happen in its original form.

 

What was all promised anyway?

 

That we would get about 50 episodes of a Dark times TV show that would be more darker then most SW stuff.

 

Wasn't there rumors of a time travel plot where people would come back from the future to kill Vader or something?

 

I never heard that, all I know is that Lucas 'supposedly' wrote about 50 episodes but they were too expensive to produce at the time.

They did however prevent EU from taking place in the years 17BBY-4BBY because of this series though, which I found annoying.

 

There was also allegedly a plot about the Death Star Plans.

Given the premise of Rogue One I doubt that plot would be available to use.

 

They chucked out Lucas's idea of telling the story about young kids for his version of the new movie because Kennedy got TPM chills from it probably and Abrams supposedly wanted to insert Jar Jar's skeleton which wounds something like Jaxxon's skeleton in TCW(yet this character they want to bring back go figure).

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...ar-wars-vanity-fair-the-force-awakens/392669/


So unless these stories were really fantastic, its doubtful we'll see them - they could use ideas taken from those scripts, if they consider them viable and good. .

 

No idea if true or not but I remember hearing about it. Quite funky if true. Hope not.
Annoying indeed.

 

One of the rumors I remember was that Daniel Logan was going to reprise Boba Fett during the Dark Times. I'm thinking they would need to either alter the content, actor, or the time period because of his age.

 

I remember that one.

 

This is officially the most popular thread I've created

 

I spoke with Logan about it once at one of his appearances. He said "maybe" and he was waiting for confirmation about the fate of the show as much as with any of us.

It was definitely a consideration, but nothing solid.

The real question would be if he'll play still Fett during the new planned film. Given that I'm guessing we'd see the film in 2018, he'd be about 29-30 during production, so it's possible. He's mostly associated with a very young Fett though (and still sounds like one), so it's more likely they'd recast or even get back Temuera Morrison (who may then be too 'old' for the role as he'd be 56-57)

 

For what it's worth, as of at least 2 years ago 'both' Morrison and Logan were still onboard with possibly returning.

 

Sam Witwer also expressed interest in the show.

 

Please no.

 

Apparently the time travel plot would have also have explained Leia remembering her mother in ROTJ.....somehow?

 

I thought that was the Underworld show linked to Star Wars 1313?

I doubt they'd copy the Caprica plot, now if they set it in the Outer Rim and made it either from the perspective of Clone Wars veterans from both sides.
And then explain the underworld connection the result of trying to earn a living in the Dark Times with the Empire gradually increasing their presence so we understand why some people wanted the stability they offered only to discover the corruption the Empire inherited from the collapsed Republic making things worse.
Keep the Jedi stuff to a minimum, thereby avoid unnecessary CGI and keep the tech a mite primitive as things are tough keep the battle droids to the background so when you want expendable foes they can be used by both sides as they're still out there.
Millions of those things don't disappear over night and clone troopers might have undergone plastic surgery to avoid being recognised and maybe that's enough what do you think?

 

This thing was mentioned like three times ten years ago and people still think it's a thing?

 

It would seem to me that what was initially planned 10 years ago is either in development hell or is dead.

 

It may take many more years, but I really do believe it will happen eventually. I mean, who in their right state of mind wouldn't watch a live action Star Wars TV series?

 

I'm actually really interested to know what Lucas' idea for the movie was. There was an interview that almost made it sound like he was going to follow the EU, or at least feature the characters from the books. He said "the original saga was about the father, the children, and the grandchildren. That's not a secret to anybody, it's even in the novels."



Not exactly a confirmation that he would have included Jacen, Jaina, Anakin, Ben, etc... but it definitely leaves me curious to know what he really had planned.

 

Yea you that is messed up. Lucas did directly say Dark Empire was to him a sequel. In that interview Lucas said directly it was not TPM again when he talks about their ages, yet Abrams and Kennedy claimed otherwise and they made it sound very TPM. Very strange indeed. Either there is some big middle finger being waved at Lucas from this camp, or what I don't know, thats rather extreme but possible as i remember the original tone from Disney/Lucasfilm shortly after the buy out was seemed very anti-PT era, even with Hasbro ordered to stop production of PT related figures. I think fan reaction was not positive and TCW fans especially prevented that so that didnt last long. If they really did scrap his outline and not blowing smoke in wrong directions and what not. The grandchildren could've be going under false names like Leia Organa or they could indeed be using original characters but I doubt it, I would say surely Leia had atleast one offspring. I know they claimed no old villains are appearing but I would not be surprised if Abram's is lying like he did with Khan. Clones are a good option or even time travel(not fan of this but never know). Palpatine could have a 30 something year old Clone, like Boba Fett was an unaltered Clone. Maybe people don't really know what a young Palpatine looked like.