So it looks like there is indeed going to be a Star Wars TV series. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand it feels like it’ll further cheapen the franchise, and that almost brings tears to my eyes. On the other hand, the Star Wars Universe which Lucas has created is easily the most amazing world in fiction ever created (yes even more so than middle-earth), and there are endless stories that could be told in that realm. The most fascinating thing about this news is that George has said that he won’t personally helm a TV project… that he’ll hand it off to someone else. The Hollywood North Report gives us this:
a Star Wars television series is coming to your screens after Episode III‚ÄîRevenge of the Sith completes its run in theaters. Jim Ward (Vice President of Lucas Film – That’s him on the left with me… I love throwing these pictures in) announced this at the recent Star Wars DVD rollout for the press, and George Lucas confirmed it himself in a recent AP interview:
AP: After Episode III, will you ever revisit Star Wars?
George Lucas: Ultimately, I’m going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I’m sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I’ve got offshoot novels, I’ve got offshoot comics. So it’s very easy to say, “Well, OK, that’s that genre, and I’ll find a really talented person to take it and create it.” Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else’s way of doing it. I don’t mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
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