When a company as large as Disney buys a company as large as LucasFilm, the possibilities for new projects are endless. Movies, merchandise, theme parks, anything under the sun is possibly when you’re talking about Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader. We know for sure that new Star Wars movies are in the works, but at the recent Television Critics Association press event the president of ABC Entertainment Paul Lee was asked about LucasFilm being incorporated on the TV side. ABC, of course, is one of many TV outlets owned by Disney.
Lee said that ABC would love to do something with LucasFilm and, in the near future, they’d be taking a look at those 50 scripts for a live action Star Wars TV show George Lucas and Rick McCallum have placed on a shelf for the past few years. Scripts that were deemed to expensive for TV. With Disney now controlling the rights to everything, that might just be the spark to get the live action Star Wars series going.
After the jump, read Lee’s quotes on the matter as well as a few more details on the rumored story of the Star Wars TV series. Read More »
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Deep below the surface of Coruscant, a lethal bounty hunter hunts down targets while exploring a whole new side to the Star Wars universe. LucasFilm has just revealed, as expected, they’re developing a new game called Star Wars 1313, a third person, action adventure shooter that promises to explore much more “mature themes” than previous Star Wars games and show “the worst of the worst of the Star Wars galaxy.”
That sounds oddly like how producer Rick McCallum has described the eventual Star Wars TV Show, doesn’t it? After the jump, we’ll explore the links and show a bunch of images and footage from Star Wars 1313. Read More »
Earlier this month, it was revealed Star Wars Weekends at Walt Disney World provided fans a chance to buy a custom made toy of themselves in Carbonite, just like Han Solo. That’s now underway and, after the jump, you can see some video and learn more about that process.
There’s also a new video interview with LucasFilm producer Rick McCallum where he sets the record straight, again, about the Star Wars TV show and dashes some hopes for a Joe Johnston-directed Boba Fett movie. Read More »
A very interesting rumor is floating around the Internet today in regards to the eventual Star Wars TV show we now refer to as Star Wars: Underworld. If true, it would be considered not only a massive spoiler, but the kind of thing that changes Star Wars as we know it. It involves time travel. However, it’s important to remember that even if this information came from George Lucas himself (it doesn’t), we wouldn’t see it happen for several years at least.
With that said, it’s a doozy. Read about it after the jump. Read More »
Posted on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 by Angie Han
Is it Halloween already? Today’s TV Bits is dark and spooky, as it deals with vampires, zombies, murderers, and other scary creatures. (Insert your own joke about some of Star Wars‘ CGI characters being their own brand of horrifying here.) After the jump:
- Rick McCallum talks about the Star Wars TV show (again)
- ABC releases a trailer for Oren Peli’s The River
- NBC picks up Dracula from Black List writer Cole Haddon
- Golden Globe winner Jessica Lange ponders a return to FX’s American Horror Story
- AMC announces the Season 2 premiere of The Killing and orders an extra dose of The Walking Dead
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As we know from multiple stories we’ve ran over the last year, the long-rumored, much-anticipated, live-action Star Wars TV Series is not happening anytime soon. George Lucas himself has sai until technology significantly lowers production costs, there’s just no fiscally responsible way for the show to be produced. That doesn’t stop fans from asking about it though.
IGN recently spoke to LucasFilm producer Rick McCallum about their upcoming Red Tails and took the opportunity to get some info on the show. While most of what McCallum says has been said in one way or another before, he does make some interesting points, asides and referes to the show by a new working title: Star Wars: Underworld. Does that mean chicks with guns battle vampires and werewolves? Not quite. Watch the video interivew and more after the jump. Read More »
Posted on Monday, June 13th, 2011 by Angie Han
It’s been six years since George Lucas first announced that he was developing a live-action Star Wars television series, and it seems we’re going to be waiting a little longer yet. In an interview, producer Rick McCallum revealed that he and Lucas would be putting the show on hold for another three to four years — but that when shooting does begin, it will be shot largely in the Czech Republic, possibly in Prague. Hit the jump for more details.
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While George Lucas pushes one cinematic technology, 3D, another is holding back a highly anticipated project. The iconic filmmaker recently appeared on G4′s Attack of the Show to talk about the opening of Star Tours: The Adventures Continue and discussed not only the upcoming 3D Star Wars theatrical releases, but the reason for the delay with the long-rumored live action television series.
Some sites are reporting that Lucas has “50 hours already filmed” and that’s just silly. They have about 50 hours of the show conceptualized and partially written but, as we reported almost a year ago, it won’t actually be made until they can figure out a way to do it at a fraction of the cost. The goal is to go to work when movies that now cost $200 million can be made for $50 million.
Lucas also did his best to explain why his 3D post-conversion process on the Star Wars films is better than all of the 3D post-conversions out in theaters right now. Will you believe what he has to say? Listen to the man himself and read more explanations after the jump. Read More »
