I just happened to be watching late night tv a couple weeks ago, checked the lineup to see who was on Carson Daly, and stayed up to watch when it said Ron Moore would be on.
So cool how they just opened with him talking about working on the live action show that now may never be.
Actually, the night after Agents of SHIELD's pilot episode aired, the execs at ABC and Disney were apparently so enthusiastic about the high ratings they started rumbling about a live action Star Wars show. It wouldn't be surprising, though, if this ended up being set in the era of VII-IX, taking place concurrently with the ST and "spin-off" movies. In other words, just like SHIELD is set in the midst of the MCU movies.
You gotta wonder if those scripts for the originally planned show will ever get used in any way. They'd written, what, 50 episodes or so? Could the team behind Rebels be using them as a basis for their show?
On a side note, isn't it kinda baffling the way Lucas covered the PT era? The "real time" depiction of the three years between eps II and III were the one high point. I was so suprised to hear, just as RotS was hitting theaters, that there would be even more clone wars material coming down the pipe in another couple years. Talk about milking it. And then there's the live action show which would've finally shown what many were hoping for in Episode III .... just on the small screen. Now it might not even happen at all.
It's funny how several years ago, as the Marvel movies were being made (one of them by Joe Johnston), I thought to myself how this was exactly how the prequels should've been handled, and now, with this live action show taking place alongside the movies, it's true in more ways than one.
