George Lucas's 2010 Star Wars live-action TV series

[GhostFaceSaint]

http://tv.ign.com/articles/859/859974p1.html
http://starwarsblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/rick-mccallum-talks-live-action-tv-series-and-star-wars-3-d/#more-162
http://tv.ign.com/articles/770/770160p2.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4484915.stm
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117926854.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1&query=clone+and+wars&display=clone+wars
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/03/09/exclusive-star-wars-live-action-tv-series-casting-underway/

These are most of the news references still good at Wikipedia link for "Star Wars live-action TV series", some are surprisingly up to date!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_live-action_TV_series

So according to all of this informatioin Lucas is really taking his time to do the show right which is a good thing, he really rushed at the end with the new trilogy, not writing the scripts until a week before each filming would start for each of the films. So if Lucas takes his time he might produce a really good TV show, more like the original trilogy which he spent years working on the writing with constantly revising and changing the script until the final draft for Star Wars in '77 later called "Episode IV: A New Hope". The new trilogy didn't get that much attention from George which is why I think it suffered.

Also Lucas is planning to let other people take over after he is satisfied that the show has a good start, so hopefully that means a new generation of writers will take Star Wars forward and if Lucas feels comfortable enough; allow others to do a new set of films.

It would be interesting to see Star Wars with an established TV show by the time CBS puts out a new Star Trek TV show hopefully around 2012 after Star Trek XII has been in theaters and released on DVD/Blu-Ray. Imagine Star Wars and Star Trek on TV, depending on the channels they were on they would either compete for viewers or just coexist with a thriving fan base for both shows!

 

[Docbrown777]

Any writers other then Lucas will make the show look like it is being written by Shakespeare. I'm grateful that Lucas brought Star Wars into our lives but the man is a really sucky writer.

 

[Captaindemotion]

There is a similar thread already going in the sci-fi and fantasy board. Perhaps this one should be merged with it?

 

[AviTrek]

You take it as a given that Star Trek will be back on TV any point soon. I think a better assumption is that it will take a successful Star Wars TV show to convince CBS that Star Trek can be successful on TV.

 

[JonathonWally]

Any writers other then Lucas will make the show look like it is being written by Shakespeare. I'm grateful that Lucas brought Star Wars into our lives but the man is a really sucky writer.

No, he's a terrific writer, he just suffers with dialogue. It's directing he's not so good at.

 

[bigdaddy]

Did anyone here think the show was coming out this year? I always thought it would come out in 2010-2011 at the earliest because Lucus needs more time to write garbage.

 

[sidious618]

Any writers other then Lucas will make the show look like it is being written by Shakespeare. I'm grateful that Lucas brought Star Wars into our lives but the man is a really sucky writer.

I'd like notihng more than for it to be written by Lucas. I'd be curious to see how he'd do a weekly TV series.

 

[LutherSloan]

Any writers other then Lucas will make the show look like it is being written by Shakespeare. I'm grateful that Lucas brought Star Wars into our lives but the man is a really sucky writer.

100% correct. I think as long as Lucas doesn't write the actual dialogue, the show will succeed.

 

[GhostFaceSaint]

There is a similar thread already going in the sci-fi and fantasy board. Perhaps this one should be merged with it?

Yeah I authored that thread but I couldn't find it soon after I posted it and thought that the mods had deleted it for being a TV subject in the wrong forum! I found it again today and posted a link to this on so anyone who wants to read the links I posted in this thread can do so.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=100323
"Another George Lucas Star Wars live action TV show thread!"

 

[GhostFaceSaint]

There is a similar thread already going in the sci-fi and fantasy board. Perhaps this one should be merged with it?

Yeah I authored that thread but I couldn't find it soon after I posted it and thought that the mods had deleted it for being a TV subject in the wrong forum! I found it again today and posted a link to this on so anyone who wants to read the links I posted in this thread can do so.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=100323
"Another George Lucas Star Wars live action TV show thread!"

I would like to merge the two threads now into this one however I don't know if that can be done or not.

 

[FPAlpha]

Any writers other then Lucas will make the show look like it is being written by Shakespeare. I'm grateful that Lucas brought Star Wars into our lives but the man is a really sucky writer.

No, he's a terrific writer, he just suffers with dialogue. It's directing he's not so good at.

Which means he's a sucky writer if he can't write dialogue.. good dialogue means good story and if there's hamfisted speeches and clicheed phrases it will ruin the most lavishly prepared set.

Bad dialogue and bad directing means Star Wars prequel.. Lucas is the perfect guy to bring in the ideas and general direction of the franchise but when it comes down to actually directing and writing it he's no better than a mediocre fanfic writer.

He should step back to produce the whole thing and maybe keep watch over the whole feeling of the show but let others have free reign over the actual writing and directing.

Write the show bible but let others put it to screen.

 

[GhostFaceSaint]

Any writers other then Lucas will make the show look like it is being written by Shakespeare. I'm grateful that Lucas brought Star Wars into our lives but the man is a really sucky writer.

No, he's a terrific writer, he just suffers with dialogue. It's directing he's not so good at.

Which means he's a sucky writer if he can't write dialogue.. good dialogue means good story and if there's hamfisted speeches and clicheed phrases it will ruin the most lavishly prepared set.

Bad dialogue and bad directing means Star Wars prequel.. Lucas is the perfect guy to bring in the ideas and general direction of the franchise but when it comes down to actually directing and writing it he's no better than a mediocre fanfic writer.

He should step back to produce the whole thing and maybe keep watch over the whole feeling of the show but let others have free reign over the actual writing and directing.

Write the show bible but let others put it to screen.

Exactly, in retrospect he got lucky somehow when he directed the first film; doing it right and working hard directing it, he actually had to see a doctor about exhaustion during that time. Lucas also does better when he is just producing he becomes a workaholic letting everything else in his life suffer, he even got divorced in '82 from his first wife because of his work with Star Wars, however it also makes him into a lazy director and editor since so much of his time was spent making the film he did a lackluster job directing the actual filming. Episode I through III should have been directed by other people so Lucas could have spent much more time producing and writing!

 

[Mistral]

No, he's a terrific writer, he just suffers with dialogue. It's directing he's not so good at.

Which means he's a sucky writer if he can't write dialogue.. good dialogue means good story and if there's hamfisted speeches and clicheed phrases it will ruin the most lavishly prepared set.

Bad dialogue and bad directing means Star Wars prequel.. Lucas is the perfect guy to bring in the ideas and general direction of the franchise but when it comes down to actually directing and writing it he's no better than a mediocre fanfic writer.

He should step back to produce the whole thing and maybe keep watch over the whole feeling of the show but let others have free reign over the actual writing and directing.

Write the show bible but let others put it to screen.

Exactly, in retrospect he got lucky somehow when he directed the first film; doing it right and working hard directing it, he actually had to see a doctor about exhaustion during that time. Lucas also does better when he is just producing he becomes a workaholic letting everything else in his life suffer, he even got divorced in '82 from his first wife because of his work with Star Wars, however it also makes him into a lazy director and editor since so much of his time was spent making the film he did a lackluster job directing the actual filming. Episode I through III should have been directed by other people so Lucas could have spent much more time producing and writing!

He got lucky? Ever hear of American Graffitti?

 

[Joy]

Basically, let George come up with the story outline, approve the design concepts, etc. Then let someone else write and direct.

There's a reason Empire Strikes Back was the best movie: George wrote the "story", but someone else did the directing and screenplay-writing.

Joy

 

[Son Of Sarek]

A live action TV show is probably not a good idea. If they ever tryed to cut back to Luke or Han, they would need to get a look alike of try to Rehire Mark Hamil or Harrison Ford. That is not going to happen.

 

[TemporalFlux]

A live action TV show is probably not a good idea. If they ever tryed to cut back to Luke or Han, they would need to get a look alike of try to Rehire Mark Hamil or Harrison Ford. That is not going to happen.

All they would need to do is have Lucas intro the episode; wave his fingers mystically at the viewer; and then say "Those are not the actors you are looking for..."

 

[nx1701g]

A live action TV show is probably not a good idea. If they ever tryed to cut back to Luke or Han, they would need to get a look alike of try to Rehire Mark Hamil or Harrison Ford. That is not going to happen.

Mainly because Lucas has said that, to him, the story of Han, Leia, and Luke is over.

 

[Trubinator]

Uhm, folks ... we're forgetting key details here. Lucas directed A New Hope, produced all three original films and was the lead writer in all of them. I don't think Lucas is terrible in any capacity, he just produced some real shit with the newer movies because he started caring more about VFX than anything else. Yes, I don't trust him with good material these days. But please DO credit him for the good work he did in the past.

 

[Skywalker]

Uhm, folks ... we're forgetting key details here. Lucas directed A New Hope, produced all three original films and was the lead writer in all of them. I don't think Lucas is terrible in any capacity, he just produced some real shit with the newer movies because he started caring more about VFX than anything else. Yes, I don't trust him with good material these days. But please DO credit him for the good work he did in the past.

Lucas was not the lead writer on The Empire Strikes Back. He came up with the story, but the screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan. He did write the script for Return of the Jedi, however, along with Kasdan.

I do agree that Lucas gets a lot of undeserved flak (not all of it is undeserved, however), but he doesn't deserve all the credit for everything that was good about the OT, either.

 

[Mr Light]

ANH's dialogue was also heavily rewritten by someone else, I want to say Kasdan? And I believe that Brackett only briefly worked on ESB before passing away or was that someone else?