Another George Lucas Star Wars live action TV show thread!
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TG Daily has an article today on it via G4's Attack of the Show interview with Lucas.
Star Wars live action series is waiting for production costs to go down
You would think they would cut together a trailer to create some buzz...
TG Daily has an article today on it via G4's Attack of the Show interview with Lucas.
Star Wars live action series is waiting for production costs to go down
You would think they would cut together a trailer to create some buzz...
Re: shot footage
How much footage does it take for a single episode? 50 hours of footage sounds like quite a bit, considering an episode would be about 40-45 minutes long. Obviously there will be a percentage of throwaway footage, where they filmed maybe an hour to get a certain shot, but, would all those 50 hours of footage translate into very little actually making up episodes?
How much footage does it take for a single episode? 50 hours of footage sounds like quite a bit, considering an episode would be about 40-45 minutes long. Obviously there will be a percentage of throwaway footage, where they filmed maybe an hour to get a certain shot, but, would all those 50 hours of footage translate into very little actually making up episodes?
Re: shot footage
The speculation is that the quote was misinterpreted. It's 50 hours of scripts ready. Then they went to budget for those scripts and realized what it would cost to produce them. You don't film 50 hours of footage without having a production plan in place, green screen vs sets vs location, etc...
The speculation is that the quote was misinterpreted. It's 50 hours of scripts ready. Then they went to budget for those scripts and realized what it would cost to produce them. You don't film 50 hours of footage without having a production plan in place, green screen vs sets vs location, etc...
Re: shot footage
To be honest I'd rather have a all-CGI TV miniseries with photorealism a TV-MA rated violence like
[HD]Star Wars: The Old Republic Hope Trailer 1080p
or
Star Wars: The Old Republic - Deceived Cinematic Trailer HD
http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers
rather than the stylized SW:AOTC on the cartoon network.
To be honest I'd rather have a all-CGI TV miniseries with photorealism a TV-MA rated violence like
[HD]Star Wars: The Old Republic Hope Trailer 1080p
or
Star Wars: The Old Republic - Deceived Cinematic Trailer HD
http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers
rather than the stylized SW:AOTC on the cartoon network.
Icemizer whoa. stop.
What CGI previous efforts are you talking about specifically?
The wide city aerial shots from SW:Ep1TPM, SW:Ep2AOTC, SW:Ep3RoTS ? (As most of the locations were live action.)
The actual locations and location room CGI models from the videogames on the PS3/XBOX 360?
LucasArts videogames with CGI models
"Rebel Assault"
"Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II"
collaboration of LucasArts and BioWare "Knights of the Old Republic".
2003 "Star Wars Galaxies"
2004 "Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords "
2004 "Star Wars: Battlefront"
2005 "Revenge of the Sith"
2005 "Star Wars: Republic Commando"
2008 "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" (best-selling SW game of all time)
2009 "Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes"
"Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II "
upcoming MMORPG "Star Wars: The Old Republic" by Bioware
or The Clone Wars TV series CGI models of locations themselves
I agree that CGI models can reused from videogames, or the cartoon SW:The Clone Wars TV series or movie and lit in a cinematic way for actors with motion capture suits to be animated into for a TV series with much more photorealistic CGI.
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Keep in mind 50 hours of shot footage could really only mean like 2 episodes worth. not 50 episodes worth. Multiple takes, etc etc. An episode takes, what 5 days or a week to film? Hell it could just be shot footage of the PILOT only..
Lucas should stop fussing with this live action stuff if it's too pricey and just plan to continue The Clone Wars into the post-ROTS timeframe, with Ahsoka as the lead character. The ratings are doing just fine, the costs are in line, so he does have a workable system for producing Star Wars indefinitely. Why stop?
50 hours of footage
If AviTrek is correct in that
AviTrek do you have a source?
Well a heavy VFX movie or TV series shoots on a different schedule but here is a sample of another TV drama for amount of footage shot per day:
So if it were a show with no real effects 50 hours would amount to 30 days of live-action shooting depending on how many cameras are rolling at the same time.
If AviTrek is correct in that
Then if the principle cast was chosen they have only shot screen tests for wardrobe/hair/makeup.
AviTrek do you have a source?
If anyone actually watched the interview, he says "We have 50 hours". He doesn't specify what, but he just says 50 hours. I'm more inclined to believe that's 50 hours of TV in the form of scripts and some screen tests of actors/CG sets etc.
I know Star Wars is supposed to feel big, but Caprica got made, presumably on a similar budget to what a Star Wars show would have and they had FX work in damned near every scene of the show. They had quite a lot of scope too. I can't see any reason this isn't being made other than George Lucas wanting to squeeze as much money as he can out of it.
I know Star Wars is supposed to feel big, but Caprica got made, presumably on a similar budget to what a Star Wars show would have and they had FX work in damned near every scene of the show. They had quite a lot of scope too. I can't see any reason this isn't being made other than George Lucas wanting to squeeze as much money as he can out of it.
I'd like to see an animated series in the style of The Clone Wars, featuring characters from the original trilogy, taking place between the movies.
I don't know how well it would do with fans; it's just what I'd like.
I don't know how well it would do with fans; it's just what I'd like.
Agreed, such as adaptations of Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Shadows of the Empire, or even some of the old Marvel comics stories.
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Anyways, there's no way there's 50 hrs of live action filmed sitting on a shelf, there would have been some sort of internet chatter from someone on one of the sets leaked out, maybe even pictures. They mean scripts, with enough production notes to tell them how much its going to cost.
Which brings me back around to the cost point, which I think is baloney. nuBSG proved that you can do scifi TV on a decent budget, and the Star Wars name brand would immediately get you better ratings (as beloved as old BSG was, that fanbase didn't hold a candle to SW's). I think could George could have them put up a pre-sale listing for the first season on Amazon to gauge interest and that might convince him to move ahead.
^^ Agreed (the animated point), and as I huge fan of the Clone Wars I still don't see why Lucas is so against doing something in the OT era or even the New Jedi Order.
Hell, I'd love to see a series focused on Leia becoming a Jedi, being trained by Luke or something.
My feeling here is that when Clone Wars ends, we'll hear an announcement that the live action series will be retooled as a animated series. I only hope that the premise is solid, it was at first going to be bounty hunters, but in all honestly I'm all bounty-huntered out from the Clone Wars!!
Hell, I'd love to see a series focused on Leia becoming a Jedi, being trained by Luke or something.
My feeling here is that when Clone Wars ends, we'll hear an announcement that the live action series will be retooled as a animated series. I only hope that the premise is solid, it was at first going to be bounty hunters, but in all honestly I'm all bounty-huntered out from the Clone Wars!!
Me too.
I like the Clone Wars by and large, but I think it's a better setting for a cartoon then the original trilogy. That's not a comment about the respective qualities of either trilogy, but the prequel films were already halfway towards being cartoons themselves - filled to the glut with those slender robots and weird planetscapes. I guess an original trilogy cartoon could just have those as well, I don't know.
I doubt that. The interview had Lucas basically saying he was waiting on the technology to reach the point making film-quality special effects on a TV budget was feasible.
In short, it was a pure Lucas moment. Just like he waited almost twenty years inbetween the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy because he'd dug in his heels about tech. I think the live-action series, if it happens... will be no time soon.
I doubt that. The interview had Lucas basically saying he was waiting on the technology to reach the point making film-quality special effects on a TV budget was feasible.
In short, it was a pure Lucas moment. Just like he waited almost twenty years inbetween the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy because he'd dug in his heels about tech. I think the live-action series, if it happens... will be no time soon.
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