Post by modeski on Mar 17, 2006 3:10:38 GMT
The most significant, ground-breaking, soul-shattering and spirit-lifting event of all time ever is about to enter our lives and bring much joy and downloading to the collective masses. Please feast your eyes upon the following article, taking from The Register
If this is done properly, then <insert superlatives here>. I will concede that that is a big if, given the dross that was Episode I. I know many of the people here have grown up around Star Wars, and I've travelled with you on that journey through the SW Universe.
I am the former leader of the Jedi Knight clan The Lucky Despot Boyz, along with Naselus and HStorm, we rocked Tatooine, desperado-style in the late 90's and early 00's. Check out our neato ads on LucasForums and browse the remnants of our site on The Internet Archive. Radio shows, movies, books, comics and games filled out imagination and took us out of our pasty nerd shells to a galaxy far, far away.
Anyway, the reason I'm waxing nostalgic is that I bloody love SW, but paradoxically hate Lucas. I hope and pray that the latest incarnation of Star Wars is finally as dark and dangerous as the lowest levels of Coruscant - something to really get our imaginative teeth into.
Anyone else excited by this?
Discuss, and may the force be with you.
Star Wars TV spin-off aims for 100 episodes
Producers of a TV spin-off of the Star Wars films reckon it will run for 100 episodes. Producer Rick McCallum told BBC Radio 1 that writing will shortly begin on the project, which will begin filming in 2008 ready for transmission in the same year.
The series is set between Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars IV: A New Hope and covers the early years of Luke Skywalker. So, unless the writers decide to rewrite the Star Wars story arc, expect lots of scenes of farming on the desert world of Tatooine. Or perhaps not. McCallum said the series would introduce new characters and be "much more dramatic and darker" than the films. Which sounds a lot like the marketing blurb for Revenge of the Sith.
The TV series is likely to feature a different cast from the actors who played in the films. This, plus the fact the project will kick off after Star Wars creator George Lucas has finished with a third Indiana Jones sequel, make the Star Wars TV series sound like The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Readers might be forgiven for thinking the project is inspired chiefly by the desire to extract more dosh from Star Wars fans than any artistic merit. Here's two reasons for thinking this for starters. The best film in the franchise, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, was coincidentally not directed by George Lucas who gave us a film based around a tax dispute, the risible Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
It may well be that the world is hungry for more space opera. In which case, we can't help but think that resurrecting Firefly might be a better option than further troubling Mr Lucas' accountants. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith alone took £500m at the box office outside of the US, the BBC reports. ®
Producers of a TV spin-off of the Star Wars films reckon it will run for 100 episodes. Producer Rick McCallum told BBC Radio 1 that writing will shortly begin on the project, which will begin filming in 2008 ready for transmission in the same year.
The series is set between Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars IV: A New Hope and covers the early years of Luke Skywalker. So, unless the writers decide to rewrite the Star Wars story arc, expect lots of scenes of farming on the desert world of Tatooine. Or perhaps not. McCallum said the series would introduce new characters and be "much more dramatic and darker" than the films. Which sounds a lot like the marketing blurb for Revenge of the Sith.
The TV series is likely to feature a different cast from the actors who played in the films. This, plus the fact the project will kick off after Star Wars creator George Lucas has finished with a third Indiana Jones sequel, make the Star Wars TV series sound like The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Readers might be forgiven for thinking the project is inspired chiefly by the desire to extract more dosh from Star Wars fans than any artistic merit. Here's two reasons for thinking this for starters. The best film in the franchise, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, was coincidentally not directed by George Lucas who gave us a film based around a tax dispute, the risible Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
It may well be that the world is hungry for more space opera. In which case, we can't help but think that resurrecting Firefly might be a better option than further troubling Mr Lucas' accountants. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith alone took £500m at the box office outside of the US, the BBC reports. ®
If this is done properly, then <insert superlatives here>. I will concede that that is a big if, given the dross that was Episode I. I know many of the people here have grown up around Star Wars, and I've travelled with you on that journey through the SW Universe.
I am the former leader of the Jedi Knight clan The Lucky Despot Boyz, along with Naselus and HStorm, we rocked Tatooine, desperado-style in the late 90's and early 00's. Check out our neato ads on LucasForums and browse the remnants of our site on The Internet Archive. Radio shows, movies, books, comics and games filled out imagination and took us out of our pasty nerd shells to a galaxy far, far away.
Anyway, the reason I'm waxing nostalgic is that I bloody love SW, but paradoxically hate Lucas. I hope and pray that the latest incarnation of Star Wars is finally as dark and dangerous as the lowest levels of Coruscant - something to really get our imaginative teeth into.
Anyone else excited by this?
Discuss, and may the force be with you.
