Lucas confirms two TV series in the works

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-04-25 05:32pm

Slashdot wrote:Mictian writes "In a rare public appearance at the Star Wars Celebration III (his previous fan event appearance was in 1987), George Lucas confirmed that he's working on two TV series. One will be a full 3D animation series (with 30-minute episodes) of the recent Cartoon Network Clone Wars shorts, and the other a live-action series, that will be set in the time between Episodes III and IV, but won't feature the main characters. Production is expected to begin in about a year."

YES! I've fucking had enough of the main characters already! I can't wait to see what kind of a show the second one turns out to be.

Admiral Bravo · Post by **Admiral Bravo** » 2005-04-25 05:37pm

Someones already mentioned this a while back.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-04-25 05:38pm

Hmm, do we know anything more about the show? Like is it going to be set from the perspective of Imperials, Rebels (or the forming rebels), or just regular people?

Either way, it's hopefull going to rock.

spongyblue · Post by **spongyblue** » 2005-04-25 05:40pm

Groovy. Thats one thing that always kina bugged me is that if there is such a huge universe of unending opportunity, why stick with the same couple of characters.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-04-25 06:08pm

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=67243

How quickly you forget.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-04-25 07:56pm

Hopefully we get some Jedi Purge action

Maybe Darth Vader as a guest villan, showing up to slaughter a few Jedi once in a while?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-04-25 07:58pm

I hope that the Jedi witches hardly ever make an appearence, let alone even mentioned at all. Other than the movies, I fucking hate stories that revolve around the Jedi.

The Purge was mostly finished in RotS.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-04-25 08:08pm

Yeah but seeing a slaughter would be fun

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-04-25 08:26pm

It's already been done. Other than the occasional mop-up action, the sons of bitches are all dead.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-04-25 08:39pm

I'd rather see the main characters have to work around some Jedi asshole (not Dark Jedi, just asshole) that's a bureaucrat or something and keeps fucking with them.

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2005-04-27 01:36am

It would be really neat if Vader played a big role in one of them.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-04-27 02:00am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I hope that the Jedi witches hardly ever make an appearence, let alone even mentioned at all. Other than the movies, I fucking hate stories that revolve around the Jedi.

The Purge was mostly finished in RotS.

The title will be Two Jedi, A Stormtrooper, And A Forest Moon.

I'm glad it won't feature main characters, though I hope they're not carbon copies either. Maybe something focussed around bounty hunters or smugglers or some other type of entrepeneurs.

The CG cartoon seems a tad cryptic. I was hoping for an animated 'The Han And Chewie Show'.

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-04-27 02:14am

Utsanomiko wrote: Maybe something focussed around bounty hunters or smugglers or some other type of entrepeneurs.

Yeah, that's what I'm rooting for. They don't even have to be hardcore smugglers or any sort of criminals, just being the crew of a regular light freighter can be pretty interesting in the SWU. What with Imperial entanglements, Hutt cartels, BoSS, miscellaneous merchant guilds established in the EU and all....

Jim Raynor · Post by **Jim Raynor** » 2005-04-27 02:49am

Wow, this is awesome news. The time period between the trilogies is a mystery, and there's a lot of good stories that could be told about it. I'm also glad that they have the balls to focus on new characters. A series about the rise of the Empire was probably the best premise for the show that people could think of, and it's great to see that Lucas will probably be using it.

The animated series came as a surprise. What do they have to do with the Clone Wars shorts on the Cartoon Network? Will the new show be a CGI, 30 minute remake of the shorts? No more crappy animation or extremely short lengths? That sounds a lot like what a lot of us were originally hoping for when we first heard about the Clone Wars series.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-04-27 03:14am

I think Lucas basically called the three seasons a "pilot show", and that it will be extended to a full-blown series. Don´t think that meant re-doing the existing ones.

In a way, I´m a bit pissed about this. If they´re gonna go with a period from the movies instead of outside them, why couldn´t they picked the GCW instead? We already have enough animated material on the CW, with the existing series and the two films, dozens of battles and events added up. We still only got four battles in the OT put together (one off-screen, I might add), and I want more. Even it up, dammit!

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-04-27 04:14am

A little on who might be in the live TV series. EPISODE III AND minor TV SERIES SPOILERS: click

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-04-27 04:19am

I´ll take this with a grain of salt. A large one.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-04-27 04:37am

Yeah right. And monkeys might fly out of my butt.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-04-27 04:45am

Good. I didn't want her to be murdered like that anyway.

Not that I'm automatically believing this story. I'd like it if she was a character.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-04-27 04:55am

Good grief, you people are jaded. Given Aayla's popularity as a fan character, it makes perfect sense that she'd show up at least intermittently in a series set between ROTS and ANH if she's still around.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-04-27 06:03am

She's frickin' hot, BTW.

I want a series revolving around Boba Fett as he carves through the galaxy killing Jedi, crooks, and shmucks who went to the wrong loan shark. I want to see him go Rambo and vaporize people and stab people and carbonite people and rip people to shreds with his fucking hands! YEAH!

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-04-27 06:53am

BobaXAayla pr0n is the way to go!

Edit: Wait, he would be just about 15 yo....

Ok then, just Boba Fett/Aayla fighting team-up!

Editedit: Brainstorm! Young rogue + mysterious girl/woman + mecha = Instant Anime-hit!!!1111

Ship this off to Japan and watch the money fly into Lucasfilm´s pockets.

THEHOOLIGANJEDI · Post by **THEHOOLIGANJEDI** » 2005-04-27 04:56pm

Am I the only person that isn't that interested in the Fett's beyond the movies? Oh well? Just never got their huge appeal.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2005-04-27 05:21pm

THEHOOLIGANJEDI wrote:Am I the only person that isn't that interested in the Fett's beyond the movies? Oh well? Just never got their huge appeal.

I kind of agree. I liked Fett in the movies. I also liked the fact that he died and we never really saw too much of him. Ever since the EU brought him back, he's been wanked over to a ridiculous degree and has become one of the more embarrassing SW characters in my opinion. He's just a huge fanwhore magnet.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-04-27 05:31pm

This says it all ...