Another George Lucas Star Wars live action TV show thread!
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Isn't this where Berman Trek went wrong, too many TV shows on too close to each other? But the Lucas rumor is 3-4 shows at the same time? Now we will see how much Star Wars is too much.
I'm in the camp of doing a show after the original trilogy with Luke rebuilding the Jedi order and the Alliance battling the remaining Imperial forces. Lucas can sit back, the stories are already written in the extended universe books and comics, just adapt them to screenplays. I know Mark Hamil would jump at the chance to play Luke again.
I'm in the camp of doing a show after the original trilogy with Luke rebuilding the Jedi order and the Alliance battling the remaining Imperial forces. Lucas can sit back, the stories are already written in the extended universe books and comics, just adapt them to screenplays. I know Mark Hamil would jump at the chance to play Luke again.
I never thought I'd call myself a Purist, but I'm more and more leaning in that direction. I wanna see my faves back in action--Luke, Leia, and (especially) Han... I would love to see a post-OT SW show/movies. The Zahn Trilogy would be fun to see, or perhaps a consolidated version of the NJO series.
I dunno... Maybe I got too used to the EU, but I'm aching to see the further adventures of the original Golden Trio (I'd say Kirk/Spock/McCoy is the original, but my analogy works better with Luke/Leia/Han=Harry/Hermione/Ron...).
Joy
I dunno... Maybe I got too used to the EU, but I'm aching to see the further adventures of the original Golden Trio (I'd say Kirk/Spock/McCoy is the original, but my analogy works better with Luke/Leia/Han=Harry/Hermione/Ron...).
Joy
I've never bought into that argument. The problem with Berman Trek was it was too many TV shows that were basically indistinguishable from each other. Voyager had a great premise, but was almost immediately hamstrung by studio edicts that the crew "get along with each other", so it just turned into TNG-lite.
Enterprise should have a been great series, the founding of the Federation, the Romulan war. Again, we got TNG-lite.
DS9 was the only series that was really able to breakaway from the mold, because it took the same setting (Starfleet/The Federation), and showed another facet of it.
The Star Wars series already seems to be on the right track. The new CGI animated Clone Wars is already different from the cel animated Clone Wars, both in look and storytelling style. And they're even covering the same time period. If the new series truly embraces it's different setting, then it shouldn't have any problems.
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That will never happen. Not even Star Wars can bring down numbers sufficient to make ad revenue for that many shows at once. I'm not even sure they can make the numbers to support ONE show.
Honestly, I wouldn't touch the show without Luke, Leia and Han. I honestly can't get excited about random x-wing pilots, jedi, robot villains, etc... I can't even get excited about Anakin or Boba, forget any new characters.
I would rather watch a show about young Han. Now THAT has potential. Something like a teenage Han and kid Luke and Leia all having sort of their own separate journeys, American Graffiti-style (separate character threads). I don't even mind them getting young actors to replace Harrison, Carrie and Mark. You might even get the three of them for bookends.
At least with Young Indy, George was aware of who the main character was. Sigh.
I would rather watch a show about young Han. Now THAT has potential. Something like a teenage Han and kid Luke and Leia all having sort of their own separate journeys, American Graffiti-style (separate character threads). I don't even mind them getting young actors to replace Harrison, Carrie and Mark. You might even get the three of them for bookends.
At least with Young Indy, George was aware of who the main character was. Sigh.
Yes, that would go down well...
I can already see the internet exploding and the gazillions of Lucas hating threads being written.
"Oh noes. Star Wars 90210"
"Stupid teenage angst in my Star Wars !1!"
"Han Solo\Harrison Ford is iconic and Lucas is hiring stupid teenagers to replace him"
Luke was supposed to have a boring life prior to ANH so I don't think there's much you could do there. Leia on the other hand you could probably make a Smallville-like prequel series too. Her rise in the Senate and the Rebellion, dealing with Vader, Tarkin, etc. It'll never, ever happen but if you wanted to do a prequel to the original trilogy, Leia is the most logical choice.
My hope for the live action series (again, something I doubt that will happen) is I would love to see them get Ewan McGreggor back to do a one episode guest shot. Just a character study of Obi-Wan in exhile on Tatooine. McGreggor is a good enough actor to make that interesting and compelling.
My hope for the live action series (again, something I doubt that will happen) is I would love to see them get Ewan McGreggor back to do a one episode guest shot. Just a character study of Obi-Wan in exhile on Tatooine. McGreggor is a good enough actor to make that interesting and compelling.
How many CSI's are there?
CSI doesnt seem to have any problems doing it. If the show is a high enough quality, and not just CGI inanity, then its not outside the realm of possiblity.
If they stuck to the already-established backstory (and don't let Lucas be the one writing the scripts; just the general story... leave the fleshing out to professionals) and kept with the Star Wars style, I can see a series featuring Young!Han and kiddie!Leia as more of a Young Indy type show as opposed to a stupid CW teen drama. Young!Han would be having all sorts of adventures with Young!Lando, and we can be cutting back and forth to the palace intrigue that Kiddie!Leia would be witnessing firsthand.
It'd be like Young Indy meets West Wing or something.
Joy
It'd be like Young Indy meets West Wing or something.
Joy
Luke had piloting skills, so his life on Tatooine with Biggs, Camie and Fixer would probably be the best choice for his arc. Geeks would rejoice about Biggs, Camie and Fixer. You've got his friends already built in.
As for Han, he definitely would be the most adventurous arc to follow. You could have him getting thrown out of the Imperial Academy for rescuing Chewie, his relationship with Chewie (with minimal Wookiee dialog this time from Chewie's family, LOL), winning the Falcon from Lando, smuggling, the Kessel run, dumping Jabba's shipment at the first sign of an Imperial cruiser/getting boarded, Han running into bounty hunters, etc... Those kind of events are worthy of being explored. An older teen/early 20s Han would work with perhaps flashbacks to him as a kid to see how he got to that point. The books basically ripped off Oliver Twist for his backstory. It's one of the few things about the EU I liked.
THAT is the show I WANT to watch and have always dreamed about seeing.
You could also add young Lando for another character story thread.
Leia, you could maybe even go up to an early teen with her (granted, the twins are only supposed to be 18 years old in ANH). Or you could even go all the way up to the events leading up to her getting captured by Vader. Leia would of course have supporting characters around her like Bail Organa and his wife.
You could do something like Young Indy where you had varying ages of the characters.
But I wish that the Star Wars "look" of the television series would attempt to go completely '70s design-wise and give it the same design aesthetic as the original series.
As for Han, he definitely would be the most adventurous arc to follow. You could have him getting thrown out of the Imperial Academy for rescuing Chewie, his relationship with Chewie (with minimal Wookiee dialog this time from Chewie's family, LOL), winning the Falcon from Lando, smuggling, the Kessel run, dumping Jabba's shipment at the first sign of an Imperial cruiser/getting boarded, Han running into bounty hunters, etc... Those kind of events are worthy of being explored. An older teen/early 20s Han would work with perhaps flashbacks to him as a kid to see how he got to that point. The books basically ripped off Oliver Twist for his backstory. It's one of the few things about the EU I liked.
THAT is the show I WANT to watch and have always dreamed about seeing.
You could also add young Lando for another character story thread.
Leia, you could maybe even go up to an early teen with her (granted, the twins are only supposed to be 18 years old in ANH). Or you could even go all the way up to the events leading up to her getting captured by Vader. Leia would of course have supporting characters around her like Bail Organa and his wife.
You could do something like Young Indy where you had varying ages of the characters.
But I wish that the Star Wars "look" of the television series would attempt to go completely '70s design-wise and give it the same design aesthetic as the original series.
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I would enjoy that honestly.
Wookiepedia links to an interview with him where he says he's willing to appear at Obi-Wan if asked. It also suggests Hayden Christiansen and Samuel L. Jackson have both told Lucas they'd love to appear in it.
I know they wont make an anthology series, and even then, base an episode on a comic book, but the one that came out a few years back, which had a half cybernetic (basically robo legged) Darth Maul come to Tatooine to get vengeance on Obi wan? That was frakkin awesome, and I would LOVE to see an Outer Limits style episode based on Obi Wan settling in to the quiet life on Tatooine, then Robo Maul shows up.
I doubt he would work for more than one episode though (Obi wan that is).
Hummm... Lets see... If I were making a SW show what could I do to make sure it was boring and no one would ever watch...? AH! I got it! NO Jedi! No Vader! No Palps! Just Smallville without the powers but all the angst! What a suckfest! It's like he went out of his way to make his own universe as boring a dish water. MEH!
Boy, you got THAT right!!! Granted, it's a BIG galaxy with a lot of things going on away from Coruscant that could be focused on, getting rid of pretty much everything that made Star Wars, well, Star Wars, what exactly are we left with? Star Wars for me was so endearing because of its deft mixture of all of the different elements- Jedi Knights, powerful villians like Vader and Palpatine, space battles, political machinations, drama, and occasional humor. Any new series should IMHO follow along with the same basic formula, otherwise we might as well be just watching Disney World's "Star Tours". "Dark Lord:The Rise of Darth Vader" introduced some new characters, mercenaries/smugglers that help some Jedi and Wookies escape from Darth Vader and the Empire that would make for some interesting stories.
That wasn't true for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Or they could have both.
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