[TV] Star Wars the Series

[Emperor]

and not the crappy animated one...

 

“A lot of my friends have been auditioning for it,” “Damages” star Rose Byrne told MTV during the “Knowing” junket.

 

“It” is George Lucas’ looming live-action “Star Wars” TV series, set between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope.”

 

According to MTV’s story, the series will focus on the rise of the rebel alliance.

 

Byrne, you’ll recall, replaced Keira Knightly in the Amidala entourage in “Attack of the Clones.”

 

So which newly available actors and actresses should Lucas be looking at? Some the dead and soon to be dead girls from “Lost”? One suspects a good chunk of the casts of “Friday Night Lights,” “Life,” “Knight Rider,” and “The Sarah Connor Chronicles” could soon be available.

 

Adrianne Palicki as Han’s snotty older sister? Selma Blair as a Wookie slaver? James Spader as the harried mayor of Coruscant City?

 

[RobertAlexWillis]

I don't really care who they cast, but I really hope the stories for this are better.  Star Wars' scripts were never super-deep or contradiction free, but they were at least pop movie acceptable.  The Clone Wars movie/cartoon series has been a real disappointment. The rise of the Rebel Alliance could make a great story.  I'd also like to see Anakin really turning into Vader, hunting down stray Jedi who made it through Order 66, etc.

[Emperor]

I keep hearing the series will focus on side characters.  Meaning no spotlight on Vader or Luke. 

[Dunbar]

It might be cool, I'll probably have to watch it o_o

[mcs0083]

No Demi

YOU WILL WATCH IT >.<

[RobertAlexWillis]

Well, naturally it couldn't focus on Luke ... for most of that period of time he was a little kid, and not even Lucas would repeat the epic fail that was young Anakin's shenanigans on Tatooine.  (My, that was an unfortunate turn of phrase, wasn't it ... Anakin's shenanigans)  But anyway, you could side characters with Vader being the background badguy, usually a step behind, swooping in sort of like Colonel Decker in the A Team ...

 

Well, not exactly, but you get my drift.  He could be involved without being a main character ...

 

Wow.  Anakin's shenanigans and the A Team ... um ... just pretend you all know what I mean, ok?

[Silver]

Guess it'll continue the story from Force Unleashed.

[Dunbar]

Me, I'd like to see me some Boba Fett getting in shape and recovering from the loss of his father

 

 

[AissaJacarn]

We're definitely looking forward to this series. And no, I'm not being all royal and all... just referring to the husband as well, since he's much more interested.

 

It's too bad they killed that guy from Force Unleashed. He was kinda hot.

[Liathiana]

I really hope it is good! I'm a huge Star Wars fan.

[mcs0083]

I seriously hope it starts in the OLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD republic, and follows a story line we have never heard of or come across. A fresh plot and some hiny new character wouldn't hurt anything.

[Far Dareis Mai]

Wow...he's really milking that cash cow for all it's worth, eh? :P

 

I dunno. I liked the movies...didn't care for the animated ones...the Lego game was fun. I think if my husband has it on the TV I'll watch it...but I don't feel excitement for this.

[Emperor]

*slaps forhead*

 

set between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope.”

 

It is going to deal with the formation of the Republic and the struggle against the Empire.  Basically it is going to fill in the gap and answer the looming questions we all have after Vader is made until Luke is discovered.  Hence why there will be no Luke... but I don't see how they get around no Vader... at least some encounters with Vader down the line. 

[Majsju]

I would imagine that we will get brief encounters with Vader, mostly him giving others orders to hunt down the remaining Jedi etc.

[Dunbar]

At least this opens for Boba Fett

 

Woo!

[Kaznen]

By side charactors are you talking about people like Mon Martha, Admiral Ackbar, and Garm bel Ilbis?  In the greater Star Wars lore they were very cintral figures to the dealings of what the rebels were doing but in the movies they were back ground charactors because those focused on Luke, Lia, and Han.

 

Or is it going to be side charactors like some dude made up just for the series?

[Dunbar]

Probably new ones, with familiar faces making cameos

[Tenshin_Xo]

Great, just as long as it doesn't try and follow the story fiasco of SW;TFU.

[Cadsuane]

SW:TFU = Star Wars: They F*cked Up?  ;D

[Dunbar]

I'm guessing Force Unleashed, but yours is better :(

[Justen Diablos]

By side charactors are you talking about people like Mon Martha, Admiral Ackbar, and Garm bel Ilbis?  In the greater Star Wars lore they were very cintral figures to the dealings of what the rebels were doing but in the movies they were back ground charactors because those focused on Luke, Lia, and Han.

 

Or is it going to be side charactors like some dude made up just for the series?

 

If there's no Wedge Antilles I'll light my TV on fire...

 

erm, or the TV in whatever hotel room I'm in on fire.

 

JD,

They say my white phantom looks so cocaine, hopping out the suicides like Kurt Cobain

[RobertAlexWillis]

Isn't Wedge roughly Luke's age?  I mean, even if he's a few years older, he probably wouldn't be very involved in this story arc.

 

Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and company probably will be the focus on the "good" side.  Both of them were with Padme Amidala in the "Delegation of 2000", which Lucas wanted to develop more in "Revenge of the Sith".  The scenes were cut in the release though, because of time restraints.  You may get glimpses of young Leia, but I doubt she'll be integrally involved.

[Zashara]

Ohhhh .... I'll definitely give this a chance. But yeah I hope they focus on Bail Organa and even throw in some Obi Wan and Yoda because they are omfgfreakingawesome!

[Emperor]

Dragon Con is transpiring, and LucasFilm exec Steve Sansweet had vague things to say about about the timing of the looooooooong-in-development live-action “Star Wars” hourlong headed to TV. What I inferred:

 

* “Writers” have been working on the project. (But which writers? Refugees from the “Theshold” or “Life On Mars” writers room? Anybody know anything?)

 

* Preproduction would begin in 2009.

 

* Production would begin in 2010.

 

* The series will likely begin airing in 2012. (Earlier estimates put it in 2011.)

 

We still know little about the series beyond the fact that it’s set between the death of Padme and Emperor Palpatine’s dissolution of the Imperial Senate.

 

Will the series follow a rogue clone who questions the morality of slaying his Jedi masters? Or would a typical story deal with that time Young Han lost his favorite spaceball?

 

“Star Wars” TV show : “A New Hope” :: “Young Indiana Jones Adventures” : “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? Would that be worth the wait for you, constant reader?

 

Someone at the con asked about the kid from “Attack of the Clones” reprising his Boba Fett role for the series, and Sansweet did not dismiss the idea out of hand.

[Phariah]

eh..i'll wait and see, but i have always enjoyed the w/ the whole Old Republic time, and the time after Return of the Jedi.either the direct aftermath of the empire losing and the rebuilding period or 130 years after in the "Legacy" time period.