Yes, a Star Wars TV show could end up on ABC – possibly the one that’s already written. In the wake of the announcement of the recent Disney/Lucasfilm deal, which puts Lucasfilm in the same corporate family as ABC, there was a lot of speculation about what that could mean for Star Wars on TV – especially since it was well know that George Lucas had 50 scripts written for a live-action Star Wars TV series that had not been produced for budgetary reasons.
EW spoke to ABC’s president, Paul Lee, about the potential future for Star Wars on ABC, who told them, “We’d love to do something with Lucasfilm, we’re not sure what yet. We haven’t even sat down with them. We’re going to look at [the live-action series], we’re going to look at all of them, and see what’s right. We weren’t able to discuss this with them until [the acquisition] closed and it just closed. It’s definitely going to be part of the conversation.”
What George Lucas told us about the Star Wars Live-Action TV Series in 2010:
With work underway on a new Star Wars trilogy, beginning with Episode VII, Lee remarked, "It’s going to be very much up to the Lucasfilm brands how they want to play it. We got to a point here with Marvel, a very special point, where we’re in the Marvel universe, and very relevantly so, but we’re not doing The Avengers. But S.H.I.E.L.D. is part of The Avengers. So maybe something oblique is the way to [approach the Star Wars universe] rather than going straight head-on at it.”
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One interesting factoid is thrown into EW’s article – naming one of the writers who worked on the live-action Star Wars as none other than Battlestar Galactica mastermind Ronald D. Moore. A personal tidbit I’ll throw in is that I actually had been told about Moore writing at least one of the episodes a couple of years ago, completely off the record, so it’s interesting to see that “out there” now.
EW also goes into some of the vague details known about the series and its focus on the underworld of Corsucant in the time period between Episode III and IV – confirming speculation that many of the design elements for the show were incorporated into Star Wars 1313. EW ponders if the game’s existence could help inspire new interest in the TV show as a tie-in to what that game introduces and focuses on. When the series was in development, the only character ever confirmed to be a part of it was Boba Fett, as it was said to not include any of the main characters like the Skywalkers.
Source : ign[dot]com
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