Star Wars Live-Action Series Discussion

Master Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 1346

Oh no it's not a diss. TV shows tend to have sub-par graphics because of the time it takes to make them. With a movie, you can take over a year to render the effects of a two-hour presentation. That is a freedom you don't have when you're making a 20+ episode TV season.

All right then. You are forgiven for your slight against my favorite show. Wink

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If I remember correctly, wasn't The Clone Wars supposed to be about 100 episodes? Maybe this means it will go longer. Or maybe the Live action becomes a dark times animated series? What I think TCW means for Lucasfilm is that they are on the cutting edge of animation right now. Just speculating...

I was home sick today, and so watched the 1pm re-air of yesterday's Attack of the Show (on G4). Kevin interviewed George Lucas and discussed both the 3D release of Star Wars and the live action series.

According to Lucas, they have about 50 hours of material prepared (presumably scripts or stories), but the only thing holding them back is cost. They need the technology to progess so that they can film and produce the series at roughly one tenth of the cost of the films.
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Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1796 Location: Carcosa

It probably is episode scripts because I recall they were hiring writers about a year ago. I'm surprised they have fifty episodes written though, I guess the live action show is going to be very different than ordinary TV with seasons and has a lot more long term planning.

I'm surprised cost is keeping them back. I mean it's Star Wars! Doesn't that mean instant money? Wink

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Padawan Joined: 05 Apr 2011 Posts: 71 Location: San Diego

Thinking out loud...

I am really intrigued with the talk of production costs.

I have been watching Stargate Universe lately, and it had me wondering how much that show cost. My thinking being that as a SciFi genre series, set on a spaceship with lots of action, that the production costs may give us some idea of just what Lucas is talking about money wise. The biggest difference would obviously be the likely special effects budget on a Star Wars series being much higher with the inclusion of alien species and more sets, etc.

According to one of the actors on SGU (Robert Carlyle) the show cost over $2 Million an episode.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6256051/Robert-Carlyle-Ive-had-it-with-British-films.html#

In 2010, Lucas said that they couldn't do it for less then $50 million per episode. Clearly there is no way that that could be budgeted. He also said they had a "movie of the week" and 50 hours of television written. So basically you are talking a debut movie (ala TCW, except with a home TV premier instead of theatrical).

In his most recent comments Lucas said he is looking to make the series for about 1/10 of the cost of the Star Wars feature films. So this is an $11.3-12 million dollar range. Now if he is speaking in per episode costs, that would be in astronomical sum for television it would also mean we would probably be getting shorter seasons with less episodes (like LOST). Overall the general episodic range as best as I can see is 13-24 episodes per year for a dramatic series.

TPM Estimated budget $115M
AotC Estimated budget $120M
RotS Estimated budget $113M

End of rambling..

TV Show May Be Shot in Prague. One or two other suggestive tidbits in there, too. It may be set around the time Luke is a teenager, for one, which gives us a tentative time line.
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Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1796 Location: Carcosa

This may be of interest. Possible writer for Live Action TV show
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Padawan Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 90 Location: Bastion

I just hope that the EU is safe and nothing contradicts with it. I am excited about seeing more live action Star Wars though, and during the Dark Times to boot!
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Thankfully, at GL's insistence, there is very little EU between Episodes III and IV. There are a few things that are immediately post-ROTJ, like Dark Times, Purge, Darth Vader and the Lost Command, Imperial Commando, and the Coruscant Nights books, but they're all dated 19 or 18 BBY. And there's another batch of EU that's almost entirely 3-2 BBY.

The only things after the end of the post-ROTS EU (which we'll say ends at Coruscant Nights 3, since I don't know when 4 will be), and before the beginning of pre-ANH EU (which we'll say begins at The Force Unleashed 1), are:
-A few random Tales
-The Han Solo trilogy, books 1 and 2
-The Lando Calrissian Adventures
-The entire Droids series, including the TV show and the Marvel and Dark Horse comic series.
-Maybe a Boba Fett story? Depends when Enemy of the Empire takes place.

Those EU stories are scattered very thinly, and are so focussed on those few characters (Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, the Droids) that it should be fairly easy to just not touch them in the Live Action series.
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It was the year of rebirth… the year of great sadness… the year of pain… and the year of joy.
It was a new age. It was the end of history. It was the year everything changed.
The year is 2261.
The place: Babylon 5.

^ I wouldn't feel too safe. TCW messed with things that weren't necessarily placed in the Clone Wars (examples: Ryloth not being tidelocked and Mandalore's renovation).
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Looks like ABC is taking a look at the series

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/01/10/star-wars-live-action-tv-series-3/

Hopefully it will finally see the light of day!
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