NEW Live Action Star Wars TV show coming

[guyute03]

... to Disney Streaming in 2019. From http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/11/09/star-wars-tv-series-announced-for-disney-streaming-service


Pretty sure this is happening because Discovery is successful. Very happy.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

Yeah good news for all sci-fi fans! I was curious about the price point, it's not determined yet but a quote from another site :
Disney CEO Bob Iger
“We’ve given a lot of thought to pricing,” Iger said. “I can’t get specific with you yet, because we haven’t determined it yet. It will be substantially below Netflix because we’ll have substantially less volume.”

 

[Relayer1]

There was a time when this would have excited me. I spent quite a long time following Lucas films plans for one or more TV shows.

Sadly, at this distance and considering the poor prequels, lacklustre animated shows and 'cough' Episode VII, I couldn't really care less.

 

[bigdaddy]

I'll wait until I see Episode 8 and Han Solo movie before I get excited. The mess the Solo movie is in because it wasn't Star Wars enough, plus the Roque One re-edit because it wasn't Star Wars enough has me worried that they are just going to make the same exact shit every year and that will get boring really quickly. (Looks at Episode 7)

 

[Relayer1]

I'll wait until I see Episode 8 and Han Solo movie before I get excited. The mess the Solo movie is in because it wasn't Star Wars enough, plus the Roque One re-edit because it wasn't Star Wars enough has me worried that they are just going to make the same exact shit every year and that will get boring really quickly. (Looks at Episode 7)

I'm taking a little positivity from the fact that I did like Rogue One.

Only a little though...

 

[marillion]

While I like the idea, I do wonder what kind of crossover potential there is. My concern is that without interaction with core characters, will anyone really care? Rebels is a good cartoon, but it seems that it didn't really catch fire until they started bringing it into continuity with known characters.

And since it's Disney (albeit streaming), will it be aimed more at the tween/teen audience like the rest of their live shows?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I'll get excited when I start hearing rave reviews from people I deem to have good taste.

 

[Caretaker]

I'll believe it when I see it (both the streaming pricing and the show actually get off the ground). It's not like we haven't been down this road before.

 

[Jayson1]

It might be good. My hope is X-,Wing fighter show which I guess would be the "Star Wars" version of "Space Above and Beyond." It's time for Wedge to get his story told along with Porkins.

Jason

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I'm taking a little positivity from the fact that I did like Rogue One.

Only a little though...

Let me figure this out; how was The Force Awakens and Rouge One supposed to be 'better' according to you?

 

[Relayer1]

Let me figure this out; how was The Force Awakens and Rouge One supposed to be 'better' according to you?

Well TFA wasnt - I didn't like it much, but Rogue One gave me a little faith back. I thought it was great - very well executed with a decent plot. Ymmv...

 

[tharpdevenport]

Years ago Lucas was going to bring al ive-action SW seires. What ever happened to that?

 

[bigdaddy]

Years ago Lucas was going to bring al ive-action SW seires. What ever happened to that?

The number one issue will all TV shows, more so sci-fi. Cost WAAAAYY too much. But I think the problem was Lucas's idea was to make each episode cost 50 million dollars.

 

[Venardhi]

As I recall, he also wanted to have the entire show written before they would start shooting, and a commitment from a network to buy the whole 60+ episodes up front.

 

[bigdaddy]

As I recall, he also wanted to have the entire show written before they would start shooting, and a commitment from a network to buy the whole 60+ episodes up front.

Yeah that's right. He wanted to make sure the show wouldn't get canceled before he could tell the story. Per episode I think he wanted $10+ million. He pretty much wanted a trilogy budget and commitment before anything filmed.

The funny thing is now-a-days I could see HBO doing a Star Wars three season deal type of show.

 

[Relayer1]

It was likely to film in Australia for both budgetary and location reasons. There are apparently a lot of finished scripts and the project was rumoured to have been mothballed whilst Lucasfilm waited for technological advances to render each episode affordable.

There were to be no Jedi in it and the rebellion to be 'background'. One character was likeky to be a bounty hunter and they had plans spinning some characters off into other related shows.

None of that is really 'official', but there was a lot if stuff discussed at the time.

 

[bigdaddy]

We can, and should, make fun of Lucas for the bad prequels, but the TV show idea he had was ahead of it's time.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I dunno, I am interested in seeing what sort of show Lucas had in mind, but if the prequels teach us anything it's that Lucas is really great at ideas and not necessarily so great at script execution. If he insisted on writing every episode, I can't see it being good.

But I'm sure the overall story would have been fantastic.

 

[Relayer1]

I dunno, I am interested in seeing what sort of show Lucas had in mind, but if the prequels teach us anything it's that Lucas is really great at ideas and not necessarily so great at script execution. If he insisted on writing every episode, I can't see it being good.

But I'm sure the overall story would have been fantastic.

I seem to recall Lucas was neither writing nor directing, but taking an executive production / overall direction role, which seemed a good thing to me.

 

[Qonundrum]

I'm taking a little positivity from the fact that I did like Rogue One.

Only a little though...

Ditto. I've not seen RO yet, but despite being what amounts to a fanservice movie (casuals won't care about filling narrative gaps), it was deemed better or more original than TFA by some - though IMHO it wouldn't take much of anything to accomplish that. That's enough to get me to at least rent it...

How they can pad out a whole expanded universe in a glossy TV show, the whole franchise will dilute itself down to its subatomic microchlorines structure or whatever.

... to Disney Streaming in 2019. From http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/11/09/star-wars-tv-series-announced-for-disney-streaming-service


Pretty sure this is happening because Discovery is successful. Very happy.

I'd have guessed due to Disney seeing big numbers raking in for any old rehash with the name "Star Wars" branded on it, though STD is said to be a popularity with the fans as well...

(yes, somehow "STD" comes across better than the oft-used diminutive otherwise used, that of "DISCO"... though in the late 1970s, one led to the other anyway...)

Yeah good news for all sci-fi fans! I was curious about the price point, it's not determined yet but a quote from another site :
Disney CEO Bob Iger
“We’ve given a lot of thought to pricing,” Iger said. “I can’t get specific with you yet, because we haven’t determined it yet. It will be substantially below Netflix because we’ll have substantially less volume.”

It'll be good news if it's good. (Which isn't synonymous with "popular", as the Simpsons said 50 million smokers can't be wrong...)