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The lunatick writes "IESB and Theforce.net report a Star Wars TV show. Lucas will not direct it just produce it. Kevin Smith (Silent Bob, the clerks series) is named as a possible director."
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>Theforce.ner .net? unlike the .ner adress, it works.
shouldn't that be
hmm... maybe they'll be smart and incorporate some of the excellent books written by timothy zahn as screenplays.
Lucas is not involved - YAhoo!!!
The brain behind the excellent Clerks Animated helming Star Wars? Now *that* I'd pay money for!
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
Kevin would have to be a moron to do it. No matter how good the tv series is it will be slammed as not as good as the original. Expecially if you expect 3-5 seasons worth of good stuff. There is no pleasing the star wars fans.
Bad idea. You want to run a franchise into the ground this is the way to do it.
I'd think Star Trek would have demonstrated that already...
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Is there anything that Kevin Smith has not been named as a possible director for? I'm still waiting for his Green Lantern movie.
Please. Please. Please. For the love of all things good and holy:
Restrain yourself from the incredibly obvious Jay & Silent Bob jokes.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled trite comments. Thank you!
The editors did edit and change it from "star wars" to "Star Wars." Then you mod the parent down, shame!
Darth: "No Luke, I am your father!"
Luke: "You're my dad? Oh boy, and you know what the worst thing is?"
Darth: "What, my son?"
Luke: "I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
Drill baby drill - on Mars
But i need to change my pants...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Does that mean it will have Mark Hamill as Cock-Knocker?
Did Han really shoot first? The jedi cousole investigates. And the Empire Strikes Back, again! All this crap and 20 minutes of Jar-Jar on the next -- Star Wars!
(ugh)
I have a bad feeling about this.
That, folks, is someone milking it for all its worth.
Lucas has always done that, but gaaaaaah...New. Levels. Of. Yanking. That. Teet.
Oh well, I guess I just pity the poor cow...
Do you know why the road less traveled by is littered with the bones of the unwary?
I checked USA Today, Google News, and Yahoo News, and was not able to find the actual story in USA Today. Doesn't USA Today put everything on the web? Shouldn't a rumor like this be substantiated a little bit more?
I wish you "underground" and "alternative" folks would realize that you are slopping up movies like "Clerks" because that is what the mass *mainstream* media is feeding you. You are being played worse than the "pop" culture you wish you really did despise.
It seems the Beflanneled One is intent on ensuring complete media saturation in perpetuity for the SW universe.
All things considered, this show could be pretty cool, but it likely won't be. The prequels have fallen short and I find it difficult to imagine fresh material coming out often enough for a TV show. A mini-series would be perhaps more appropriate.
I gotta say, everytime I see another part of Star Wars being sold out, a little part of me dies.
This has "Doomed" written all over it.
Star wars seems as though it is ill-suited for TV status. Giant space operas don't mix with 1 hour [plus commercial] slots.
Hell, I'd rather see the afore mentioned Spaceballs sequel made into a TV series.
All due respect Mr. Lucas, Bozo the Clown could do better than Jar Jar.
"Do you see a sign on my lawn that says 'Dead Wookie Storage'??"
Before everyone suggests this is a bad move I just want to say look at SG1. The original movie was at best 'ok' but thanks to the series the brand is highly valued.
Sorry, can't resist, I just have to post it :)
(taken from http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html)
Building the Death Star
written by Kevin Smith
Randal: So they build another Death Star, right?
Dante: Yeah.
Randal: Now the first one they built was completed and fully operational before the Rebels destroyed it.
Dante: Luke blew it up. Give credit where it's due.
Randal:And the second one was still being built when they blew it up.
Dante: Compliments of Lando Calrissian.
Randal: Something just never sat right with me the second time they destroyed it. I could never put my finger on it-something just wasn't right.
Dante: And you figured it out?
Randal: Well, the thing is, the first Death Star was manned by the Imperial army-storm troopers, dignitaries- the only people onboard were Imperials.
Dante: Basically.
Randal: So when they blew it up, no prob. Evil is punished.
Dante: And the second time around...?
Randal: The second time around, it wasn't even finished yet. They were still under construction.
Dante: So?
Randal: A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers.
Dante: Not just Imperials, is what you're getting at.
Randal: Exactly. In order to get it built quickly and quietly they'd hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing and white uniforms.
Dante: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
(The Blue-Collar Man (Thomas Burke) joins them.)
Blue-Collar Man: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about?
Randal: The ending of Return of the Jedi.
Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
Randal: Like when?
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
Rand
What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
Hmmm... I wonder if there is anything else we can do to cheapen Star Wars even further?
Hey, how about a T.V. show? We'll get Ted Danson, Gary Coleman, and possibly even one of the Baldwins!
Do you think the episodes will be about whatever the third trilogy would've been about?
Star Wars Episode VII "Chasing Leia"
And I now think that his dream of being a Jedi has come true. Remember Mall Rats? I wonder if he'll use the Circus Seal joke again.
I guess that's the good part of the story
I don't read replies by ACs.
It's a business, people. There's a market and they'll continue to make stuff like this as long as someone will watch it.
Whether you think it's a good idea or bad idea, at least it will be creative. And likely better than most of the reality TV crap that's on the air.
I'm not asking people to like Lucas, or love everything Star Wars. But they're right... there is no way to please everyone.
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
dont do it george. its a bad idea.
I could just imagine.. silent bob directing star wars.. jabber would be more stoned.. the storm trooperes would be swearing.. darth vader would have a vaporisor instead of oxygen.. hrmm what else..
Oh well, I guess I just pity the poor cow...
The cow suffers no more; it was milked to death a long time ago; whatever's coming out of the teat now must be decomposing-cow fluid.
Yummy!
It was posted on Slashdot before, with confirmation: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/11/182725 7&tid=101&tid=214&tid=129&tid=1
Though the Kevin Smith rumor wasn't mentioned, and I see no way he would ever do it. That series will be the end of someone's career sadly.
As if millions of dollars suddendly cried out, and Lucas thought, "Why not, I sold out years ago anyway."
There's already been a pilot for a Star Wars spinoff show that has gotten favorable reactions. They should consider turning it into a series.
Remeber the great Chirstmas Special!
...As if the voices of a million Star Wars fans suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...
Did someone say Battle for Endor?
I think if the franchise has a tv series, it would have officially Jumped The Shark!
You know, kinda like when the brady bunch put the blonde kid with glasses into the story line, or when Chrissy left three's company..
Just show more Mos Eisleys, Death Stick Dealers, smugglers in crappy starships, malfunctioning droids, bounty hunters, weird aliens...
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Besides the original movies especially second one Empire Strikes Back still look better than Lucases computer animations.
Where was this when anyone wanted it? (about twenty years ago)
The Special Editions were about as special as Bush's "Shock and Awe" and the prequils have been a huge disapointment. From the same person who gave use these back to back well-hyped-but-under-delivered duds, I don't want to waste more time with a TV show.
So what channel did you say it was coming on?
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
In my opinion, a Star Wars TV series would work best with the timeline about 5000 years before the Battle of Yavin, which is around the time of action of Knights of the Old Republic. You've got the Sith Wars, the Mandalorian War, and the conflict with Exar Kun going on about that time, and there's a good amount of Jedi and Sith to do battle and tons of interesting worlds as well. With this we could avoid the same old "Empire vs. Rebels/Republic vs. Separatist" nonsense.
This is going to be the best show ever made. All other shows should just give up and go home. Imagine instead of The Simpsons making fun of Star Wars you could have Star Wars making fun of The Simpsons. Check out the Star Wars ROTJ DVD commentary. George makes the comment that the Ewoks are just like the Viet Cong. Yeah, that's what I thought when I watched ROTJ too.
Who is gonna change channel first? Me or Greedo?
This really just shows the contempt the American viewer is held in. They aren't even attempting to come up with anything new and original. Any old recycled crap will do it seems.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Has Lucas done anything else than Star Wars. From all I know he is associated with only Star Wars. I have never heard of his name associated with another film. Is this all he is going to do all his life? The originals were good, but the ones made in the 90s and 2000s sucked. My adivice to him is to either make sure that the next Star Wars movies is as good or better than the orginials or put it to rest, and move on. There has to be something else than Star Wars that he can do.
Well then I hope we get to see that Wookie Christmas Special again -- yipee!!!!
The mistakes of Star Trek? I'd start with the mistakes of Episodes 1 and 2 first. IMHO, the lack of character development and excessive technobabble in Star Trek seems laughable compared with the absolutely horrible dialog and wooden acting in the last two Star Wars movies.
Lucas doesn't seem to be directing or writing, so a Star Wars TV series might actually be okay.
This will just make it easier for /.ers to bash star wars in the future.
I just hope they take the Star Wars Lo Mein flash movie and turn it into an actual episode. That would maybe lift my spirit.
Vader: But master..
Emperor: and stop calling me butt master!
Kevin Smith and George Lucas have a lot of parallels as directors. They both peaked early (Mallrats and The Empire Strikes Back) and have produced increasingly shitting movies since.
its going to be critised we all know that! but most of us would be more than interested to see what they come out with!!
An interview with George Lucas
Interviewer: George, lately you've been coming under fire for "milking" your star wars franchise. How do you respond to critics who claim your just making more movies, and shows to shill more products?
George: *in a darth vader like voice* If you only knew the power, of a truck load of money!
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
Jay & Silent Bob comes in as guest star. They meet Queen Amidala who's having PMS & getting bored playing with her 5 playmate bunnies at her palace.. QA : "Chancellor JayJayBinx, how do you think Silent Bob performed?" Jay: "SMOOCHIES BOOCHIES POOCHIES! I think he's awesome duuude.. but he aint be talkin to me!!" SB : "......" QA : "Silent Bob, youre fired!"
They had it on their front page yesterday but pulled it or something and I can find no reference to the story today. They are tied very closely to Lucasfilm so it makes me wonder...
"Where quality is like a dead stinking rat - you just can't miss it."
The weekly treadmill is precisely what television is.
For further insight, consider "Star Trek V". It was the only movie (based on the original characters) to lose money. However, when "Star Trek V" was broadcast on television, the movie seemed okay, compared to the junk food on the other channels.
The only conceivable way for Star Wars on the boob tube to not deteriorate to the level of Star Trek is to develop plots requiring at least 3 episodes to tell. In other words, across a 21-week viewing season, Star Wars, the boob tube show, would essentially be aired as 7 movies, each movie being 3 hours in length.
For fate's sake, please try to get good actors and actresses.
anybody else remeber the spin off cartoons from your childhood? (not counting the infamous xmas special, which really is terrible by the way)t ome.com/Droids/
http://www.tvtome.com/Ewoks/
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I loved the scene where Luke got sent to kill Han. Then Jabba got mad and fed him to a giant space-worm or something...
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
I think I have to come down with the View Askew news folks on this one. I can see him writing for the show (and maybe directing an episode or two), but I really would hate to see him tie his career to this thing (for a number of reasons).
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The original film was ok and the series is just about watchable if you're not doing anything else, largely due to Richard Dean Anderson. The brand? Fuck the brand.
Government of the people, by corporate executives, for corporate profits.
Why?! Why on earth...? Why should anyone ever clarify that Kevin Smith is Silent Bob, and even further clarify that Silent Bob is from the "clerks series"?! That should be universally accepted as one of those things that earn the line, "Dude, if you don't know, I'm not telling."
Luke: Don't you never say an unkind word about the Time. Me and Silent Solo modeled our whole fucking lives around Morris Day and Jerome. I'm a smooth pimp who loves the pussy. And Tubby here is my black man servant. What.
[Silent Solo nods vigorously]
It's simple: I demand prosecution for torture.
jarjar binks on tv? *yawn*
In more important news: NEW Battlestar Galactica is on SciFi January 2005!
I could put up with a couple of years if they use it to somehow cover what could have happened in 7-9.
After all the celebrations at the end of the 6th movie are kind of silly, its not like the Empire evaporated with their Emperor. There would be many years of putting the whole back together.
Now, how to make a movie out of that I don't know. I do not think fans would stand for Luke, Leia, or even Han being transformed into bad guys.
Attempting to fill in gaps between the movies would not make a great story because everyone knows how it came out. The best comparison is Enterprise. Every Trekkie knows how the universe played out, hence a lot of them hate Enterprise for changing that!
We need good science fantasy/fiction on the TV. Who is to say that Star Wars cannot do that? At least give it a shot. Even Lucas is better than Beavis and Butthead over at Star Trek.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
Wait a minute guys, this is a TV SCI-FI SERIES we are talking about here. There is no problem with them making Star Wars into the next Babylon 5, and here's why:
What do you always get in a TV Sci-Fi series?
Cheesecake.
That's right, Cheesecake. The only compelling reason to watch sci-fi, and directors like to serve up big, heaping slices topped with insincere gravitas and skin tight costumes.
Jerri Ryan, that Vulcan from 'Enterprise', Erin Grey, Lt. Orora, Tasha Yar (I think that was her name), Debbie from Sealab, um... someone from Babylon 5, uh...
I actually don't watch that much TV, so I don't really know the whole list. I am certain there are some other people who can help fill in the details.
But you get the drift, and I, for one, cannot wait until the first time someone has to swing across a vast chasm.
Hoping to see Pam Anderson as a Grand Moff,
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It has already been made: at atomfilms.
The Emperor's Court
Lucas must die.
And Greedo did not shoot first. He didn't even make disparaging remarks about Han's mother. He was just all green and tentacley and 'Jabba wants you as his new wife' and such so Han shot him. Fair call too.
Now wash your hands.
If its any different than that, it will be pure crap, nobody will watch it and it will be filed away in the history of TV Land failures, right behind Cop Rock.
-- Mace only makes me hornier.
"STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL."
There is no pleasing the star wars fans.
You're absolutely right! How could the man who gave us Howard the Duck ever do wrong?
Sarcasm aside, Episodes I and II are dumbed-down versions of Star Wars. They were more about the special effects than about the story. I find it ridiculously simplistic that Senator Palpatine could so easily engineer the takeover of the Empire; are there no other senior politicians who are in this with him? And the acting is wooden; even Ewan McGregor, one of my favorite actors, stumbles through these movies like he's not quite sure how to handle the material. Given how gifted McGregor is, I have to assume that it's Lucas's direction and writing that are the problem.
Thr first trilogy was made in the late 70's/early 80's, before the tech revolution. For most of us, it pushed the boundaries of science fiction. Two decades later, the tech concepts of the prequels are ho-hum. Lucas really needed to hand these off to someone who had a little more of a vision than he did.
Can you imagine if Lucas had contracted the Wachowski Brothers to write and direct the prequels? Even the least favored movie in the Matrix trilogy blows away the Star Wars prequels.
The best of the five Star Wars movies, SW:TESB, was not directed by Lucas. I think that that speaks volumes.
Bingo! Just as JMS is the one person who can save the Star Trek franchise, he's also the guy who can save the Star Wars franchise.
Lucas: stop the insanity and hire JMS to helm the TV series. Then get him to do episodes 7, 8 and 9. This is the only way to redeem yourself for all the violence you've done to our childhoods.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
In a recent interview that we had with Star Trek head honchos Rick Berman and Manny Coto we asked them what kind of advice they would offer George Lucas regarding a weekly Star Wars TV series. "Its one thing to have three years and over a 100 million dollars to create a one 2 hour movie compared to 22 to 26 one hour episodes in a year with a very limited budget and still have to remain fresh in the eyes of your audience", said Berman. Manny Coto also had a good point when he said " You have to concentrate on the story and also the characters and not make a weekly special effects show." When asked if he had any other advice for George, "He can always hire me if Enterprise doesn't work out". (My emphasis)
It's as if a million voices inside me all cried out... and then fell silent.
George, I know your track record is spotty, but if you're going to take advice from Berman, you might as well douse the whole shebang in gasoline right now...
to know what life is like back at C3PO's family homestead. I want to hear every bleep and bloop that they converse with as they prepare for the great droid holiday called "Gordon Moore's Birthday".
Maybe they could get Conan O'Brian to drop in as a suprise special guest since Art Carney prob won't make it. Then the C3PO family gets all worried cuz R2D2 is late getting there cuz he is caught in a barfight over at the Cantina on Mos Eisley (cuz you know they don't like droids there!)
That would be cool. It would be like the SWHS all over again except without all those annoying wookies.
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
- CSI: Coruscant
- Law & Order: Imperial Sedition Unit
- Extreme Makeover: Padawan Edition
- The Darth Vader Factor
- Survivor: Dagobah
- Who Wants To Marry A Sith Lord?
- The Apprentice
Damn. Actually I think I'd enjoy some of those."It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
You know guys, you could always not watch it.
That pretty much works for me when I don't want to see a TV show.
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This need to be going to the dude that did firefly, wasn't it Joss Wheaton ? (to lazy to imdb it)
I would like to see if they could do it well but I would like to see a different timeline. Mabey the Sith wars or as the game had the Mandelorian wars or a new character after Luke.
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The potential choice of Kevin Smith makes "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" oddly prophetic...
Love the Third Amendment?
Damn, I guess that means we'll have to put up with too many homosexual references and innuendos... not that there's anything wrong with that.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Is this Star Wars Holiday Special Edition? I've been holding my breath for years!
"C'mon LUNCHBOX! Fix that fuckin' hyperdrive already!"
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wow.. if Tartakovsky AND Kevin Smith worked on it...
drool~~~
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Everyone knows that they'll be competing for the smooth taste of Colt 45.
Jar-Jar and son. The rollicking misadventures of the elderly Mr Binks and his more articulate son as they attempt to make a living as scrap dealers on various backwater planets of the Republic All JAr-Jar all the time.....
A format worthy of the content!
"Do you see a sign on my lawn that says 'Dead Wookie Storage'??"
That is so true. With apologies to Lennon, "Wookiee is the nigger of the galaxy far, far away"
Everybody keeps forgetting about Joe Michael Straczynski when Star Wars TV is brought up (and it is brought up often enough here).
http://www.jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?ID=1-17162
Has a bit of info regarding some TV series he's been offered a job on. "...one of them could be insanely
successful. I should know more about this situation in late October. (Neither
is Trek-related, just to nip any potential rumors in the bud.)" He's already said it isn't Dr. Who, but not responded yet (afaik) to Star Wars TV.
Given that he created Babylon 5, one of the best space opera TV shows ever made, I think he'd be an excellent (or at least the obvious) choice for Star Wars TV. One thing he made a lot of noise about when he made Babylon 5 is that there wouldn't be any annoying kids or robots (and this is before the SW prequels), it's clear from his various posts that he can't stand insulting sci-fi. This could easily wind up like the Knights of the Old Republic game or the Timothy Zahn novles.
But if JMS isn't involved, I fully expect a live-action Ewoks adventure given the way the franchise has been going lately. Although Clone Wars was good, even if I still hate Tartovsky's character designs and overall art style.
I was just thinking that if the guys who did Farscape (Writers, directors etc.) were tapped for this, it has huge potential.
Farscape was an hour long huge story arc type of show. Featred a group of rogues on their own in the universe just trying to get by. Blaster fights, space battles and interesting Non-CG aliens (courtesy of Henson),
The upcoming mini-series is likely the end of the Franchise (books and maybe games not withstanding) and these guys will have a lot of time on their hands.
Put these guys in the setting/time frame of KotOR game as someone esle sugested, and you could have a hit on your hands.
I could also see this going south way quick.
Surely he will make one for us, a true haven of fanboy culture and yes men.
"I just hope that he [George] doesn't just do the TV series for the money that it will make and end up giving us a weekly kiddie show, he needs to learn from the mistakes from Star Trek and give sci-fi fans a quality show,"
... Howard the Duck ...
George needs to learn from the mistakes of the Ewoks in "Return of the Jedi", the two Ewok made-for-TV movies, Jar-Jar Binks, the Star Wars Christmas Special...
I have a really, exceptionally, horribly bad feeling about this, as if a billion brain cells cried out in horror, and were suddenly silenced.
Or the classic: "Bocce, motherfucker, do you speak it?"
" You have to concentrate on the story and also the characters and not make a weekly special effects show."
Ummm... er... did anyone point this out to Lucas?
I'm afraid if he has any hand in it - even just as executive - that note above just won't happen.
Oh my gawd, they killed kenny's mod points!!!!
You know what irks me? The fans who say Lucas is in it just for the money. The guy runs, on top of Lucasfilm, Skywalker Sound (well renowned), ILM, get residuals for THX, same with digital editing hardware/tools, created (and sold) Pixar, etc.. etc.. etc... The guy is already loaded. Other than Episode 4, the guy made these movies using his own money, and still had plenty to spare.
You people who bitch at one thing because the story he wants to tell somehow 'raped' the memories of your childhood. Episodes 1-2 do tell a story that deeply ties into the original trilogy. Even my 12 yr old nephew was able to recognize this. If you don't like the new trilogy, then just don't watch em!
It's better to burn out than to fade away
They would have reported it months ago, when it was news. Why Slashdot only just picked this up is beyond me...
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I hope not!
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I don't think the TV miniseries would be out at 2006 since good ole Steven Spielberg is currently working on War of the Worlds (no not that World of the Worlds even thought it would be nice to see that one) and he definately wants to be involved in the Star Wars television project.
I have a funny feeling that it would be about the rise of Darth Vader and how he became feared in the Galaxy.
Say MIDICHLORIANS again, I double dare you!
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... and then you're going to watch every damned episode, buy them on DVD, and complain bitterly when the series is cancelled. Five years from now there will be a Save Star Wars campaign. Just watch...
Just hope they don't figure out you would mortgage your house and hock the car just to buy the action figures all over again or you could kiss the whole economy goodbye.XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
It already exists.
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Greedo doesn't shoot first but he and Han do a bit a dancing first.
ADMIRAL JAY AKBAR: All right, plan A. We wait 'till the Death Star's right about in orbit, then WHAM! Smack two fuckin' proton torpedoes right up its trench. We're all on 'em with the snub fighters, which Grand Moff LaFours won't be expectin' - their pitiful-ass defenses are designed for capital ships, baby! Then it's back to the Temple on Yavin for some hot Wookie sex and a fattie blunt. May the force be with us! Snootchie-bootchies!
called "The Ewoks". Its a satire on modern ewok life.
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Didn't anyone else see "TROOPS"? If anything were to be turned into a tv show, it should be TROOPS. It's got everything you need: Live action, inside jokes, authentic costumes, references only Star Wars fans would catch, explosions, Jawas ...
And most importantly: Stealing a working television show structure.
Yay.... now we can see the fat, old Princess Leia in a gold slave-girl outfit...
I say that the old Starwars Cult and the StraTrek cults join up just for once to destroy the Dark Side and the Borgs.
Joss Whedon. I doubt that he'd be interested, but man, wouldn't he do an amazing job?!
ST Ep 1 and 2 : Some of the worst direction of all time.
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Our luck, the Star Wars series will be produced by Berman and Braga. ;p
...the show should be OK. Anderson manages to turn everything he touches into liquid excrement. I've read better written Mary Sue fanfic.
Just... no.
Great. Hollywood's biggest has-been teams up with their biggest hack, and you'are looking forward to this?
The top-rated post here was hoping they would remake Zahn's stuff. Hello? Anyone home? Why are you asking Hollywood to repackage your nostalgia for you? Don't you think that a series with no good or original material in over a decade (despite $billions in funding) should have already ridden into the sunset? Can't you realize that the best parts of Star Wars are in the past? Can't you deal with that?
The latest Star Wars videogame allows you to relive your favorite star wars battles... that you've seen redone a hundred million times since they came out. OMG, blowing up the Death Star? Fighting on Hoth? Jesus H. Christ, it's like these haven't been in a dozen videogames before. Did any of you saps actually pay money for this shit?
Will you buy anything? Will you watch anything? Will you swallow anything? Are you afraid to say "For fuck's sake, let it rest." Jesus, just say it with me.
The VHS releases were a disappointment because the editors chopped out the narrative thread of Old Indy as story-teller. It's amazing how much this damaged the overall effect of the show. I still pull out the old VHS copies I taped of the unadultered versions to show during that whole media cross-pollenation period when you meet new friends. They are always blown away.
Young Indy was amazing for several reasons. .
1. They hired real, well respected writers to pen the episodes. The fellow who did the screen treatment for Shawshank Redemption wrote a couple of my favorites.
2. They shot them on location, touring all over the world, and they used the proto-version of Lucas's non-linear editing system and digital graphics department to bring the viewer astonishing visuals you still never see in low-budget TV. (Each episode cost only about 2 million!)
3. They only made a dozen or so episodes per season. The crews worked themselves to the bone and spent the time to do their best work. Each episode watches with movie quality.
The experiment was a success; Lucas demonstrated that he could make amazingly high quality television for rock-bottom prices.
And yet. .
Smart, exciting, lovingly shot and perfectly edited, this series somehow managed to achieve popular failure. I've only ever been able to deal with this by crying, "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU STUPID PEOPLE?!?!" (Clearly a redundant question.)
Further, when the hatchet job VHS copies hit the market, the show was all but a dead critter. Apparently, Lucas has this ability to create wonderful things and then suck the life out of them. Although the recent Star Wars films would suggest that he's skipping past the 'wonderful things' part, and jumping right into 'life-sucking'.
But maybe if he keeps his fingers out of the project and gives it to the right people, (as he says he wants to), Star Wars TV may have a chance of being as good as the Young Indy series. I don't have my hopes up. The intense desire to create something special at the Ranch has taken rather a lot of hits to the moral. But you never know. There's always a chance. We'll have to wait and see.
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Kevin Smith? Great, if we thought Luke was whiney before, just wait till they add a little of Dante Hicks persona to him. But, at least there will be a new level to the star wars drinking game. =)
Oh yeah lets get kevin smith to direct it, that'll make it's destined to an eternity in hell as the worst Movie to TV adaption.
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...oh wait, it already exists! It's called Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors.
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You mean like this?
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If this allready hasnt been mentioned, how about "death star contractors", a trading spaces offshoot where the rebels trade the Imperial Navy living quarters for a zany and decorative experince!
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"Pass on what you have learned." Luke, played by an older Hammil, needs to train the next round of Jedi. Here's the key to the next arc. Aunt Beru gave the clue -- "Luke just isn't a farmer!"
Luke restarts the Jedi in the 'big city' -- but the recruits are too distracted. They're picking fights using Jedi mind tricks to get women to have sex and causing other dark side trouble. A couple recuits go dark-side and run off. Luke has a vision from Yoda. Take the Jedi training back home, back to the farm.
To fulfill Yoda's quest, Luke has to become a farmer -- exactly what he isn't. That's it. Bring Luke back, have him do the 'Green Acres' thing for a little bit, teach the recruits a little bit of work and discipline, make buddies with the sand people and Jawas after a few conflicts, and halfway into the season work in the next story, bring back the recuit who went dark-side before the move back to the farm.
In the season finale, resolve the Luke as farmer arc completely, and link that up with the battle with the neo-dark side guys.
Piece of cake. Also huge nostalgia force...
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I have a bad feeling about this...
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I just got the difference between star wars and star trek explained to my wife ("ouch that dude has a ugly mask..." she still sees men in mask).
Star wars is a movie, and star trek is a tv series that also has some movies made about the series.
Now lucas trek is makeing the universe even more difficult.
The "good" thing is that we will not see the star wars series in europe for some years so i have some time to prepare her.
I'm guessing it'll be named "That Star Wars show"
"The experiment was a success; Lucas demonstrated that he could make amazingly high quality television for rock-bottom prices"
One of the "other" reasons for Star Trek TNG going off the air was skyrocketing visual effects costs - from; none other than ILM.
ILM does not produce their effects cheap - now maybe they can with inhouse - but they certainly don't come cheap when they are producing for someone else.
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When preparing the special editions, Lucas was clearly influenced by how Jules and Vincent seem like decent, honorable good guys throughout the film after letting the hand cannon guy fire first before they take him out.
Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's just because I've rewatched it recently. I wouldn't exactly call SW:ANH good or smart writing. It was a fun movie, with bad acting, Sir. Alec Guinness notwithstanding (actually, everyone but Han, Obi Wan and Tarkin were annoying this time around,) a pretty cheesy storyline, held together by three things (for me) : amazing special effects, an outstanding soundtrack and memories of when I saw it at the drive in when I was 5.
Come to think of it, the end has always bothered me : a small fleet of rebel starfighters attack a battle station the size of a moon, that housed "legions of Imperial troops and fightercraft" (starwars.com), yet, the Imperials only launch at best an equal number of fighters to repel the attack?! They were there to eliminate the Rebel threat, but they leave the vast majority of their fighters in the hangar??! Vader says (paraphrased) "Several of the fighters have broken attack formation, follow me." he brings TWO pilots with him!! This is supposed to be a fully operational battlestation ; did they forget the fighters and pilots somewhere?! Actually, if they intended to end the Rebel threat forever, why isn't the majority of the Imperal FLEET there? Two movies later, it took the entire fleet to (almost) repel the Rebel attack!
I'd hate to admit it, but I had the same "What did I see in this movie when I was kid" feeling that I had when I rewatched Krull. It was fun, too, but lacked substance. It had acting on par with SW:ANH but the soundtrack was great and the effects were very well done.
Empire Strikes Back was another beast however : that will always be Star Wars to me.
I wish the new movies were as good as the Clone Wars animated mini-series! There was some GREAT action that would be awesome in a movie!
I'm still trying to cope with the fact that after Ep. 3, there will likely be no more SW movies. I think that the Thrawn Trilogy would make a great finisher, but I highly doubt it would ever happen.
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As to why it would work, I don't remember an explanation from the books, but I could see it as being a matter of actually generating their own version of the Force that happens to jam regular users much in the same was as jammers are used in electronic warfare measures.
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Oddly, this basic story arc would be pretty interesting (if you cut out the mind tricks for sex bit). Even though you seem to be writing this somewhat tongue in cheek, it's a better idea than what Anderson did with the Jedi Academy trilogy.
Clearly, the future will be a guys paradise. Woman will all be engineered to have great boobs. Everybody will dress alike, no need for fashion. Guys will spend their time in hot-rod spaceships shooting lazers at one another.
,Will this be like the ewoks Christmas adventure?
Hopefully Luca$ will allow for the more mature tone of a primetime 10pm-11pm show. I would love to see the series develop the universe more and shy away from the expaneded universe books with the exception of the Zahn trilogy. That would make for a great mini series. Powers that be hope you're listening.
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all the knowledge of the ages was almost lost but for the industriousness of a handful of monks in places like Ireland.
yeah, and like the handful of monks in the Byzantine Empire. Oh, I guess that's more than a handful though.
I'm not sure if you intended to come of this way, or if you have a seriously Eurocentric historical view, but the Roman Empire only fell in Western Europe. The Eastern Roman Empire, with the capital moved to Constantinople, lasted continuously, pretty much into the modern era, if you bridge across the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.
So, sure, knowledge in Western Europe was set back centuries, and only small pockets of learned monks retained any semblance of knowledge during the "Dark Ages," but Middle East and Asia we doing just fine.
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Anyone remember "Droids," the cartoon centered around Artoo and Threepio's latter-day adventures? It was pretty good, at least compared to "Ewoks." I think a new Star Wars show could have potential.
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