Hiring & The Live-Action Series Rumors • September 2005

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September 17 2005

source: (IGN)






Exclusive: Star Wars TV Series Now Hiring Scribes sought for upcoming show.

September 15, 2005 - IGN FilmForce can exclusively report that Lucasfilm is seeking screenwriters for its planned TV series based on George Lucas' Star Wars film saga.

Keeping with Lucas' penchant for security, the show will be scripted at the bearded one's secluded Skywalker Ranch. Work will commence this January. Lucas and his colleague Rick McCallum will produce the still untitled show.

The series is slated to run 50 hours and will be a mixture of live-action and CGI. Principal photography will begin in 2007 with filming to take place in Australia.

While the show will apparently revolve around imperial bounty hunters, there could be other directions taken. The series will take place after the Empire has risen to power.


According to an article just put up over at IGN: "While the show will apparently revolve around Imperial bounty hunters, there could be other directions taken". It also says the show is slated to run 50 hours instead of 100 as originally reported and writing will begin the January with principal photography to begin in 2007(in Australia).