Star Wars: The live-action TV series?

[SBoydW]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=305344&GT1=7701

 

Lucas Offers Peek at New `Clone Wars'

March 14, 2008, 9:03 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- Fans never seem to get their fill of "Star Wars," and George Lucas is happy to oblige.

 

Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theater-owners convention ShoWest on Thursday, showing a sequence from "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," a computer-animated movie due in theaters Aug. 15. It will be followed by a TV series of the same name, to air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall.

 

The movie came about as an afterthought while Lucas was developing an animated TV show of the same name. That show debuts this fall, but Lucas figured it was ripe for big-screen treatment, too.

 

"You've got the whole assembly line built, and then you say, `Hey, we can make up something,'" Lucas said in an interview. "It was like old-time moviemaking. What I love about television, it's like Monogram Pictures or the old studio system, where a couple guys come to work and they sit and have some coffee and go, `Why don't we make a movie about such and such? OK, fine.' And at the end of the day, it's pretty much on its way."

 

Set in the years between episodes II and III — "Attack of the Clones" and "Revenge of the Sith" — of the big-screen "Star Wars" chronicle, the movie and series present fresh adventures of Jedi warrior Anakin Skywalker, his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and other colleagues.

 

The movie introduces a female Jedi, Ahsoki, who is Anakin's young apprentice.

 

"It's like `Band of Brothers' in space, with Jedi," Lucas, 63, said. "You can tell lots of stories. They come up all the time."

 

Lucas said he plans to produce at least 100 hours worth of TV episodes of "Clone Wars."

 

He also is moving forward with a live-action "Star Wars" TV show focusing largely on new characters removed from the Skywalker family. That show will be set in the decades between "Revenge of the Sith" and the period when the original film, 1977's "Star Wars," takes place.

So can fans ever get enough of "Star Wars"?

 

"I don't know," Lucas said. "I'm thankful every year that it keeps going."

 

I would have to give it a shot.  Hopefully the acting will be better in it than in the last two movies (II and III).

[Lanthirrhos]

Truthfully, I'm huge into Star Wars.... but don't care too much about this... not saying it wont be good, it may be... or not, just not interested...

 

However, The series that Lucasarts has assigned for 2009 looks interesting... ;D

[Kaznen]

He was holding off on the live-action series until after the new Indiana Jones movie was finished.  It's finished and on its way to theatres.  Any word on when prodution will start?

[ironcross]

you know there comes a time when enuph becomes too much

[Lanthirrhos]

Now, it it was a NJO series... ;D

[F Horn of Valere]

not too excited about the clone war stuff, but the live action between III and IV.. that sounds interesting.

[SBoydW]

I'll keep my eye out for any more info... this little side note in another article is the first I've seen/heard of the series.

[Lanthirrhos]

Okay, the first bit doesn't apply :D but the last line or so does ;)

 

[Samuraiflip05]

I'll give anything titled Star Wars at least one chance.

[ironcross]

i still think they should make movies out of the timothy zhan books.  they were the closest thing to the original that ive seen