So is that proposed Star Wars series dead?

[Bishop76]

I actually do think anything is better than the prequels. Except TCW. And Uwe Boll films.

 

[Samurai8472]

I don't see why the cost is a big deal. I mean, he's a billionaire, he could accidentally drop change out of his pocket and fund three seasons right there.

He can already do six one hour episodes. That would be the equivalent of filming all three prequels.

 

[Set Harth]

I actually do think anything is better than the prequels.

^ See, I wasn't making it up.

 

[Candlelight]

^ Yes, indeed. The prequels, at least, can be watched once. Two and three can be watched more than once, if you fastforward through certain parts. I wasn't able to abide Clone Wars more than ten minutes. Ugly graphics, infantile writing--hasn't nothing to recommend it.

I agree, but mainly due to my channel of thinking.

If something comes out as a live action event then I always think of it as such. Shifting to cartoon just takes the edge away from the reason i liked it in the first place. Or much of the SW EU in book form.

Just like how Babylon 5 continued it's storytelling in novels. I preferred the live action, so the novels don't mean anything to me.

 

[Dac]

Fair enough. Haters gonna hate.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

BSG's miniseries was obviously a backdoor pilot. The story was only set up, it wasn't in any way a complete story like a true miniseries, with a beginning, middle and end. So the intent was always to go to series unless the ratings sucked. It's the same thing as just trotting out a few episodes and seeing how the ratings do. Calling it a miniseries is a face-saving measure if the series gets cancelled - "we always intended to do that."

Exactly - so what's wrong with doing that with Star Wars? Everyone wants a series, so testing the waters with a backdoor mini makes sense, no?

I guess Lucas doesn't think the financials make sense for even a dry run. More likely, given that he has billions to waste on whatever nonsense he feels like, it doesn't really have anything to do with money and he just doesn't feel like it. TCW has been doing very well in ratings and creatively. Maybe he's decided to throw more of his efforts into that route.

I imagine if he can't make the budget work, he might recycle those into an animated version of the concept.

Sounds good to me. All they really need to do is continue to refine their animation skills. On the hair issue,

Spoiler: everyone already knows about this but anyway

they didn't want to show Chewbacca in TCW until they'd improved their hair animation techniques - hopefully all the characters will benefit and lose some of that helmet-hair look.

 

[Dac]

Or perhaps he really does think the world is gonna end next year. XD

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Or perhaps he really does think the world is gonna end next year. XD

That should win Random Comment of the Day.

 

[Dac]

I'm actually surprised Lucas hasn't really done much with online distribution. Sure, he puts eps of The Clone Wars on StarWars.com for free, but from what I can see theres nothing in the way of exclusive, paid content.

I don't see why he doesn't farm out an officially licensed short film to someone like Freddie Wong from YouTube. He could literally pay them like $10,000 and get something back which looks like Episode III at a fraction of the cost. If he marketed online and sold some merchandise it would do pretty well I reckon.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Probably because $10K is pocket lint to Lucas. Online stuff is still too piddly for anyone to really bother with yet, except for grins.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

^ Yes, indeed. The prequels, at least, can be watched once. Two and three can be watched more than once, if you fastforward through certain parts. I wasn't able to abide Clone Wars more than ten minutes. Ugly graphics, infantile writing--hasn't nothing to recommend it.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Trent, I don't think we're the target audience.