June 10 2011

LUCASFILM PRODUCER RICK MCCALLUM SPEAKS LIVE-ACTION SERIES source: (www.ceskapozice.cz)


MCCALLUM QUOTES


PRODUCTION

• "The TV series is on hold, but that has nothing to do with the Czech Republic; it has to do with [the episodes being] so ambitious”

• “We have 50 hours of third-draft scripts, but the problem we have is there is a lot of digital animation; we don’t have the technology yet to be able to do them at a price that is safe for television. Since we would be financing them, it would be suicide for us to do this [now]. So we are going to wait three or four years”

• “Network television and cable television as we know it are completely imploding, so we’re not really sure that in five years’ time we can release a dramatic one-hour episode because it is all reality TV now”


PLOT

• “It takes place between episodes three and four, when Luke Skywalker was growing up as a teenager, but it has nothing to do with Luke,”

• “Basically, it is like ‘The Godfather’; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s [about] a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution”


STAR WARS 3D

• “We’re doing 3D versions of all six films, one a year, starting in February of next year. We start with [episode] one and go all the way through six, totally chronological,”

• "But the first one is a somewhat of a test. “One a year, if they work. If they don’t, then there will be just one [episode converted to 3D].”

thanks for the news though

Drugs and prostitution? Talk about forging a new direction with the brand.

In addition to the Godfather, the show also sounds a little like a Dr. Mabuse film. The description makes me wonder which bounty hunters (besides the obvious one) will end up on the show.

It didn't work with Caprica for BSG why try it again with Star Wars?

Because it's "Star Wars"