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May 17, 2005

Star Wars Comes to TV

(Filed under: TV)

Amid all the buzz about Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith some of the most exciting news (for geeks like me anyway) is that George Lucas is planning two TV shows:

Lucas made a rare appearance at a Star Wars fan convention, Celebration III in Indianapolis, on Saturday. There, he described the two forthcoming TV series. One is an expansion into a 30-minute series of Clone Wars, the series of animated shorts shown on Cartoon Network that chronicles space battles that take place between Episode II and Episode III. "We're going to take that and turn it into a 3-D animated version full series," he said, according to the official Star Wars website. The other, he said, was a live-action drama that would take place between Episode III and Episode IV (i.e., the story told in the original 1977 film). "We're probably not going to start that for about a year," he said. "Like on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, we want to write all the stories for the entire first season all at once. I'm going to get it started, and hire the show runners and all of that, then I'll probably step away." (Entertainment Weekly, subscription required)

TheForce.net gives details/speculation about more the live-action series (on TV in the fall of 2007?), as well as more life after Sith news.

Posted by kevin at May 17, 2005 4:46 PM

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