Lucas & The Live Action Series • "On Hold" • 30th Anniversary Empire Screening

[DoubleSith]

May 10 2010

source: (www.fieldmuseum.org, www.rebelscum.com)

Lucas: "On Hold" - Question & Answer audience session @ 30th Anniversary Empire Strikes Back Screening.








EXCERPT:

Audience: How are things going with the Live-Action TV Show?

Lucas: "The Live-Action TV Show is kind of on hold because we have scripts, but we don't know how to do them. Because they literally are Star Wars - only we're going to have to try to do them - a tenth the cost. It's a huge challenge - lot bigger than what we thought it was gonna be."

[darthpsychotic]

[Mike_Droideka]

The fact that they're pushing it back is somewhat unsettling, but reading between the lines, they've obviously got something HUGE up their collective sleeves and can't work out a cost effective means, of making it happen on a smaller budget.

Doesn't look like it's going to happen in 2012 then. That fucking sucks!

[Bandersnatch]

I'd really rather they just do the scripts of the Live Action Series in the animation style of the Clone Wars. They know they can do that, and it works.

[Topeka]

Lucas sent a congratulatory letter to the producers of LOST. There might be some significance to this if Lucas is looking to tap some talent for the Live-Action Series.

[stan Marsh]

I'm sure it is incredibly difficult for a movie producer to try and conform to tv budgets. We are talking about a guy who basically pioneered cinema in order to make his movies. There are backers for things like that which can be make back on a one off production. This is an ongoing thing that needs continuous financing, and TV networks are way cheaper than movie studios.

This is both bad and good news. Good that he isn't trying to skimp in order to get it done, but bad that he may never get enough funding to do what he would be satisfied with. I'll throw in 50 bucks, anyone else?

[E_CHU_TA!]

[royalguard96]

I am still skeptical that the LAS ever happens.

[sithwitch.com]

I think they are just buying a little time. A group of pre-production folks have been working on locations, characters, CGI and all sorts of supporting stuff for years now in Singapore and New Zealand. Plus "Pre-Viz" the Mandalorian and the rest of the Wolf in Sheep's clothes AKA Clone Wars is laying the groundwork for for the Live Action show.There is too much in the bag to just let it go. "On Hold" just means they need a bit longer. It will come, but now that they have scripts, actors (perhaps already filmed) and lots of pre-viz I think they just want to keep things quiet while they work a bit more. Maybe Seth Green's show will help get enough of the supporting materials together for the LAS to happen in a budget that works. Then again, isn't Lucas donating 1.5 billion to charity? Maybe he could spare .5 of that to make a killer tv series. Oh well.
On another note: what a disappointment Celbration V was. All that hooplah and the ONLY news is blue ray (BFD) and a sneak peek at some cool Sith Witches, who apparently run the show on their planet.

[stan Marsh]

I don't have a clue of what type of investment this would take and who it is that is putting it up, but if Lucas is willing to share the back end with investors or the studio I can't believe that one of the major networks or even a cable network with deep pockets would kill for the chance to own a piece of this. I can't imagine it is expected for this to do anything but rape all competition in whatever time slot it goes to. I know that usually the money in movies just doesn't exist in television, but this is a franchise that doesn't loose money, and since the creator has resisted the fans demands and not gone crazy just putting out everything possible to cash in there is still plenty of room for films or shows or videos. Shit, he could go straight to video with this and charge a fuck ton and sell a huge number. People will pay for star wars, I just can't believe that it is money that is holding this up.