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I thought there was supposed to be a live-action Star Wars show set between ROTS and ANH in addition to the Clone Wars 3D cartoon? What happened to it?
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I think it is still on the table. Unless the 100 episode 100% CG fest not being grabbed right away caused them to reconsider. Personally, if I were to have to watch Star Wars on TV, I would rather have 95% CG (which is what Lucas calls live-action), than the full out cartoony CG thing. But I honestly don't care one way or another, just one more nail in the coffin as far as I am concerned.

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The live-action is still going ahead. Rick McCallum spoke at "reunion 2" in France . heres a snip of what he said:

Live action:
- Boba Fett will certainly be in the series and Rick wants Daniel Logan for the part.
- The series will be on cable.
- He will have a contract for 100 episodes and Rick hopes it will be extend to 400, maybe with Expanded Universe characters after the first 100.
- So no EU character for "now" in the live action show. All the characters will be new ones.
- Six screen writers have been hired and will start work in November
- McCallum hopes to have John Williams for the score but it is too early to tell
- Every episode will have it's own original score

The Clone Wars Animated Series:
- The first season will have 21 episodes of 22 minutes. Steve Sansweet has already seen 6 of them.
- We will see more trailers once a TV network has been chosen
- The series may be broadcast in many countries at the same time

Saga Box Set:
- Lucasfilm is waiting to see who wins: HD DVD or Blue Ray.
- The box set will have around 100 hours of documentaries about the 6 films.

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That... sounds highly unrealistic. Not coming down on you, adywan, I'm sure you didn't make this up, but this sounds like even more of a pipe dream than their plans for the CG show. Four hundred episodes?! How many series actually make it to 400 episodes? And this hasn't even been picked up, mind you. And John Williams coming down from the heavens to work on a TV show? And to come up with 400 separate scores?! Yeah, that's a big "not happening." Once again, does any show have completely original music for every episode? No! They use tracked music because it would be impossible to come up with scores in such a limited amount of time for such a large amount of material! Ugh. Somebody just kill these damned Star Wars shows.

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Well, since Gaffer Tape wasn't, allow me to be the first to say THEY'RE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO BE IN THE BOXSET?
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i heard the live action show may be pushed back to 2010 and not come out in 2009 as planned. the clone wars cg is coming out in 2008 as far as Lucas has planned 2008 will also be the year of force unleashed, and a little thing called indiana jones 4 and the merchandising and tie in as expected will come out.

hasbro may i have heard be doing indiana jones action figures, and their is a lego indiana jones game in development.

for the next 2 or 3 years lucasfilm has no plans on their calendar as they have said to release any versions of star wars on blu ray or hd-dvd (unlikely anyway because 2oth century fox is a blu ray supporter), you can thank the greed of sony, microsoft, and paramount among others for that. thank bill gates. it would not surprise me if lucas is in cahoots with him to get both formats crushed in favor of online digital distribution.

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Originally posted by: adywan
The live-action is still going ahead. Rick McCallum spoke at "reunion 2" in France . heres a snip of what he said:

Live action:
- Boba Fett will certainly be in the series and Rick wants Daniel Logan for the part.
- The series will be on cable.
- He will have a contract for 100 episodes and Rick hopes it will be extend to 400, maybe with Expanded Universe characters after the first 100.
- So no EU character for "now" in the live action show. All the characters will be new ones.
- Six screen writers have been hired and will start work in November
- McCallum hopes to have John Williams for the score but it is too early to tell
- Every episode will have it's own original score

The Clone Wars Animated Series:
- The first season will have 21 episodes of 22 minutes. Steve Sansweet has already seen 6 of them.
- We will see more trailers once a TV network has been chosen
- The series may be broadcast in many countries at the same time

Saga Box Set:
- Lucasfilm is waiting to see who wins: HD DVD or Blue Ray.
- The box set will have around 100 hours of documentaries about the 6 films.


I give McCallum points for getting a lot of documentaries for whatever future boxset comes out, but seriously...

400 EPISODES? What? WHAT? Does he think this is Bonanza or something?
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Originally posted by: adywan

- The box set will have around 100 hours of documentaries about the 6 films.


If only it would actually have the FILMS.

I'm not trying to bring my fanboyism down, but seriously, I really can't see the shows lating that long.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Once again, does any show have completely original music for every episode? No! They use tracked music because it would be impossible to come up with scores in such a limited amount of time for such a large amount of material!


While I don't disagree about all that being pretty unlikely, I learned via the Lost podcast that each episode of Lost is scored via orchestra. So I guess some shows do. But yeah, Williams is pretty unlikely, but then again, Georgie has a ton of dough.

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Yeah, right, 400 Episodes... "The Simpsons" have just crossed Episode 400, and that's after 19 years and 19 seasons... I don't think - no, I KNOW that 400 episodes of SW won't happen. 19 Years of a SW-series? C'mon.
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Originally posted by: crazyrabbits
400 EPISODES? What? WHAT? Does he think this is Bonanza or something?


"And with Daniel Logan as Little Boba . . ."

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Originally posted by: Laserschwert
Yeah, right, 400 Episodes... "The Simpsons" have just crossed Episode 400, and that's after 19 years and 19 seasons... I don't think - no, I KNOW that 400 episodes of SW won't happen. 19 Years of a SW-series? C'mon.


This was my first thought as well. 400 episodes?! That's 20 years! And this is for a show that hasn't even been picked up yet!

Lucas and McCallum are truely living in a dreamworld. Either that or they seriously haven't considered how many years are in 400 episodes.

How old is Daniel Logan anyway? Does he really want to play Boba Fett until he's nearly 40? Talk about being typecast.
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A one hundred episode contract is quite a commitment too. If I am not mistaken contracts are usually for a number of episodes or a season, not the full run of a series, once the show becomes successful then they renew the contract for a longer period. Just to put this into perspective, Star Trek the Next Generation ran for 178 episodes over the course of 7 seasons. A 100 episode contract would be about five years. I am pretty sure this whole thing is fake, do we have evidence that Rick really said these things? Even the thing about the wait for the next DVD being for the format war to end, this is what many have been speculating, but if this had really officially be announced it seems like it would be all over the place.

Of course with the whole 50 episode thing with the CG Clone War thing, I guess I couldn't put it past them to be arrogant enough to think their series could last 400 episodes before ever airing. This series could be great, it could last ten years for all we know, it could have great writing and be nothing like the PT at all. It could have great writers and great actors and be outright fantastic. But this is not the way a TV series is usually done, if this is true it is hard to believe people that have been in this business for so long.

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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Once again, does any show have completely original music for every episode? No! They use tracked music because it would be impossible to come up with scores in such a limited amount of time for such a large amount of material!


While I don't disagree about all that being pretty unlikely, I learned via the Lost podcast that each episode of Lost is scored via orchestra. So I guess some shows do. But yeah, Williams is pretty unlikely, but then again, Georgie has a ton of dough.


I'm not saying that TV scores can't be orchestrated. I'm just saying that, in TV shows, it is not generally feasable for every single episode to have its own unique score. Usually, they use the first several episodes to compose character and emotional themes and then reuse them throughout the rest of the series, occasionally composing a new bit when the need arises, which will then also be put into rotation from then on.

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Originally posted by: C3PX
A one hundred episode contract is quite a commitment too. If I am not mistaken contracts are usually for a number of episodes or a season, not the full run of a series, once the show becomes successful then they renew the contract for a longer period. Just to put this into perspective, Star Trek the Next Generation ran for 178 episodes over the course of 7 seasons. A 100 episode contract would be about five years. I am pretty sure this whole thing is fake, do we have evidence that Rick really said these things? Even the thing about the wait for the next DVD being for the format war to end, this is what many have been speculating, but if this had really officially be announced it seems like it would be all over the place.

I believe McCallum mentioned that before (someone posted it in another thread). He said they were waiting for the format war to end and if it didn't that they might just go forward with digital distribution (ie HD downloads).

Originally posted by: C3PX
Of course with the whole 50 episode thing with the CG Clone War thing, I guess I couldn't put it past them to be arrogant enough to think their series could last 400 episodes before ever airing. This series could be great, it could last ten years for all we know, it could have great writing and be nothing like the PT at all. It could have great writers and great actors and be outright fantastic. But this is not the way a TV series is usually done, if this is true it is hard to believe people that have been in this business for so long.


That's just it, they haven't been in the TV business. I'm starting to wonder if they really do know how it works. You are correct though. Shows usually start as either a mid season replacement (12 or 13 episodes) or a full season. Some shows don't last that long though (Vanished and Justice were both cancelled about halfway in, with Vanished finishing the story on MySpace). So there isn't really a "contract" per se. The networks order a certain number of episodes based on how well they think the show will do and when they plan to start it. If the ratings don't pan out early on, the show gets axed. This is why Heroes got a full season. They had stellar ratings for the first few episodes, so NBC ordered a full season. Then they got renewed.

That's how TV works. The fact that Lucas already has 100 episodes ready (5 seasons worth) shows that he doesn't have a clue how TV really works. Sure, he's got enough material for 5 years, but so did JMS (Babylon 5) and look what happened to that show. If it's horrible, the network will kill it. If it's great, they'll want more.

I'm starting to think that the only way this show will see the light of day is direct to DVD or by download (or both). If it's a free download, I'd take a look at it. If it's pretty good, I'd want it on DVD with extra features. If it's crap, it won't be worth the time.
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Big networks even can reserve the right to cancel shows after they air a series they have bought. Remember after Seinfeld ended, the actors who played George, Kramer and Elaine each got their own show. All of them were cancelled after, if memory serves me correctly, the broadcast of only one episode. Later the Elaine actress got a different show which has been successful. The three flops were the year after Seinfeld quit. I don't know the first thing about how the legal end of all this works (what the networks actually bought), but the reality was they decided the shows were bad and not going to be popular, so they cancelled them, based on the audience's response, after airing the premieres. I also know it happens all the time that new series get cancelled in mid-season. Maybe it works different in the cable (particularly the lower budget cable) markets, but for anything big, even seasons are not guaranteed.
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I'll be very surprised if we even see one series of this live action show.

McCallum is talking total bullshit about the amount of episodes planned, this is the guy who couldn't even give accurate info about episode III when it was in production!!
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Think about it guys there's like a 19 year period between ROTS and SW so a 400 episode 18-19 season series seems to make a lot of sense


Originally posted by: C3PX

....do we have evidence that Rick really said these things? Even the thing about the wait for the next DVD being for the format war to end, this is what many have been speculating, but if this had really officially be announced it seems like it would be all over the place.


http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Lucasfilm/Disc_Announcements/Lucasfilm_to_Star_Wars_Fans:_No_Blu-ray,_HD_DVD_on_the_Horizon/644


Lucasfilm to 'Star Wars' Fans: No Blu-ray, HD DVD on the Horizon

Mon May 21, 2007 at 11:59 AM ET


Responding to persistent rumors of a pending release of the 'Star Wars' films on high-def disc, Lucasfilm has issued a statement denying any such plans for the series in the foreseeable future.

Ever since both next-gen formats launched last year, George Lucas' blockbuster space saga has been one of the most highly-requested "holy grails" on high-def.


But hopes hit a new high several weeks ago when early adopters started buzzing about this Amazon.com listing for the Star Wars Trilogy on Blu-ray. Such "placeholder" pages for highly anticipated titles are common practice with the web's biggest retailer, enabling customers to sign up for an email alert when the item in question becomes available. Unfortunately, this can lead to confusion for some consumers, who mistake these placeholders to mean the title has been officially announced.

Hoping to quell the web wildfire, the folks at PC World contacted Lucasfilm for comment early last week, and were told the following by company spokesperson John Singh:

"Lucasfilm Ltd. has no plans to release any of the Star Wars movies on Blu-ray or HD DVD. Listings on Amazon.com or any other Web site are purely speculative and erroneous."

It's worth noting that such a statement should not be much of a surprise (if still a disappointment) to long-time industry watchers. Lucas was one of the longest hold-outs on DVD despite that format's fast-growing mainstream acceptance, waiting over four years after launch before he allowed the first 'Star Wars' film to be released on disc (which turned out to be 'Episode I: The Phantom Menace' in September 2001).

Needless to say, we'll keep you posted on any future news of a 'Star Wars' release on high-def disc. Stay tuned...




The search function here sucks, I can't find the other quote from Rick about waiting for the format war to end.

edit: not a quote but I found this on digitalbits

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/mytwocentsa139.html#panrep

Finally today, there's interesting Indy and Star Wars news: At the Star Wars Celebration event in Europe this past weekend, George Lucas' longtime producer, Rick McCallum, spilled the beans on some interesting release plans at Lucasfilm. It seems that the first of several volumes of Young Indiana Jones episodes will finally be released on DVD on 10/13. According to this link at the official Star Wars blog, the first batch of discs will street in October, followed by another in January and one more right after the theatrical release of Indy IV. There's an audio recording at that link of some of McCallum's presentation. Several Bits readers who were on hand at the event have e-mailed us to say that Rick also told the gathering that the Star Wars films will NOT be released in high-definition until there is a clear winner in the Blu-ray Disc/HD-DVD format war (implying that they'll eventually be released on only one of the two formats). I expect we'll hear more about this next week at Comic-Con in San Diego. By the way, the audio recording also offers some new information on the planned Star Wars live action series, as well as the future prospects for a theatrical release of the Star Wars films in 3-D. It's worth checking out.



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if the live action show is even half as good as the new battlestar galactica it will do well.

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I'm SO not liking these ideas. The clone wars CG cartoon looks ridiculous. Why are they doing ANOTHER Clone Wars series yet AGAIN? This time CGI!? I'm anti-interested in it and get turned off at the fact that it's CGI and it's CLONE WARS.... AGAIN!! WHY!?

The SW live action looks much more fun, but I hope it doesn't last 400 episodes. That's overkill.

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Wow, ya'll are posting from the future, maybe I am too.
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Please make it stop!
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Didn't McCallum say he wants there to be several separate live action shows running at the same time? Maybe that's where the 400 number comes from.
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Boy, can we say "flooding the market"? Can we say "overconfident bastards"? Can we say "please, make it stop"?!

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C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.