Lucas Hunts For Writers For New Star Wars TV Show

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2005-09-22 04:35pm

Superman wrote:
Trytostaydead wrote:I think Uwe Bowell should direct the TV series.
How about team him up with B & B?

That would interfere with his mad genius!

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2005-09-23 11:22pm

Stravo wrote:If he hired me I wouldn't even give my job 2 weeks notice, It would be a fucking dream gig but I live in the real world and Spanky is right. There's no way some no name no experience writer if getting anywhere near this...but imagine another possibility. KJA.

No doubt. Any Lucas moles on the site can take my application back to him, that's for sure. I won't be holding my breath though.

NRS Guardian · Post by **NRS Guardian** » 2005-09-25 03:31am

I don't know if they're free, but the SeaQuest DSV or Farscape writers could be possibilities. The first because of their connection to GL through Spielberg, the second because they're already in Australia and Farscape had a bit of that SW vibe.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-10-08 08:12am

Updating this with new info on the two series:

Rick McCallum, who served as producer on the recent Star Wars films, revealed to Now Playing Magazine some of the details of the two upcoming TV series based on the franchise created by George
Lucas. "The live-action television series is something we're planning for just at the beginning of 2007," McCallum said in an interview while promoting the upcoming DVD of Star Wars: Episode III-
Revenge of the Sith at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in northern California. "We're just starting to interview writers and trying to really figure out which direction [to go]."

McCallum added that the series will have a different tone than the features and will introduce characters that weren't seen on the big
screen. "It is going to be much darker, much grittier. It's going to be character-based. [Lucas] envisions somewhere like 100 hours, [set] between Episode III and Episode IV, with a lot of characters that we haven't met, but [who] have been developed in some of the
novels and other things. We're really excited about that, because I think finally we're going to have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series."

McCallum also revealed that the live-action series is likely to be based in Sydney, Australia, and will be filmed in hi-def, while production on the animated series is already underway at Skywalker Ranch. "The animation is being done as we speak," he told the
magazine. "It's starting to prep. That's being done here at the Ranch. A lot of the effects are being done in Singapore. ... I think it's just now in the conceptual work and script work [phase]. I
think George is trying to get 13 scripts done first before we really start to get into the pipeline of it. But that'll start happening probably at the end of March."