Since it was announced that Disney acquired Lucasfilm, one of the biggest questions everyone had was about the long rumoured live action television series developed by George Lucas and Rick McCallum. With Disney’s ownership of ABC, it was always a fairly reasonable guess that they would, at the very least, look at the live action show and see if they wanted to throw a hat in that ring.
According to Entertainment Weekly, that’s finally going to happen.
“We’d love to do something with Lucasfilm, we’re not sure what yet,” Lee exclusively told EW. “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.”
It’s promising news, to be sure. If the episodes written are as good as I imagine they would be (since they’re, you know, Star Wars), I imagine the only thing that could possibly continue to hold it up would be cost.
But the article goes further and uses anonymous sources to shed more light on the series. Entertainment Weekly is much more reputable about reporting on issues in both the worlds of Star Wars and entertainment.
Sources say the live-action series centers on the story of rival families struggling over the control of the seedy underside of the Star Wars universe and the people who live within the subterranean level and air shafts of the metropolis planet Coruscant (the Empire’s urban-sprawl-covered home planet). A bounty hunter may be the main character. Set between the original Star Wars film trilogy and the prequels, the time period allows for all sorts of potential appearances from classic figures from the Star Wars universe.
The description is sufficiently vague and jives with other reports I’ve read that lend it credibility. Meaning the show still sounds awesome.
The EW article goes on to posit that Star Wars 1313 built on the universe that was going to be seen on the show, and that it shared production art and concept design. So, if Star Wars 1313 does well, it might be an added incentive for ABC to jump on the show.
But, as with anything, only time will tell.
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