Star Wars TV Show

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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incorporate zahn's books

[ShakuniMama]

hmm... maybe they'll be smart and incorporate some of the excellent books written by timothy zahn as screenplays.

Re:incorporate zahn's books

[Zocalo]

Possible premises:

• The Old Republic - Plenty of scope here for what things were like "before the dark times", but will probably become a "Jedi of the week" show soon enough
• The Clone Wars - kind of covered in the animated series though
• Young Luke Skywalker. Cute^H^H^H^H Irritating kids, races though Begger's Canyon and shooting womp rats...
• What ever Lucas has in mind for VII-IX this week. Probably closest to your option, and the one I'd like to see; could even keep the extended universe stuff intact with a little effort.
  • Face it though, this is the person who brought us Jar-Jar Binks - it's going to be a rehash of Young Indy, isn't it?

bad Idea

[pyro101]

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.

Is this real?

[lothar97]

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?

SG1..

[Manip]

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.

Nonsense

[artemis67]

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.

No need to get upset

[Jormundgandr]

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.