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Wednesday, April 27, 2005Lucas Introduces Plan to Continue Star Wars Franchise After Episode III Is Released: More Money to Enter His PocketsStarwars.com reports from Celebration III about Lucas' appearance. Two television series are in the works:
"You know we're doing a pilot television series now called Clone Wars," said Lucas. "Well we're going to take that and turn it into a 3-D animated version full series." Lucas described the episodes as being 30 minutes in length.Lucas also stated that if these are successful, more tv series may come out, potentially exploring the Old Republic and the Sith Empire. Finally, he confirmed that a draft of the new Indiana Jones script is completed. As far as the TV series go, I think the 3D animated Clone Wars one will be a winner. Despite not particularly liking the art of the Cartoon Network pilot series, it seemd appropriate and did not distract from the overall excellence of the series. If the spinoff to 3D keeps the same storytelling style, it should be great. The live-action series could be great or terrible. I never saw SW as something that could easily be translated to the TV screen (much like Star Trek is difficult to translate well to the Big Screen), but if done in a fashion similar to Firefly, it could be a hit. Basically, the idea of turning Star Wars into an ongoing serial drama is distressing, but using a smuggler's adventure in the backdrop of the Star Wars universe could be great. |
