I bet you were all sat in your homes earlier today thinking; I wonder what’s going on with that live action Star Wars TV show. Well, erm, me too! Well, it seems that via this website, producer Rick McCallum has some news, and sadly, that news is that we are not going to see the thing for at least three to four years… The reason? Well, it seems that the technology is not up to scratch yet, or it’s too expensive… Here’s the skinny…
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.
So, as well as this, the slightly more exciting news is that McCallum has spilled some deets about the plot.
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.
More at the end of the link above.
Additional news sourced from Bleeding Cool.
