Speaking last night at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards (which mean absolutely nothing), producer Rick McCallum provided an update of the current Lucasfilm projects. Speaking about a Star Wars television series, McCallum claims the show will provide the dark, character-based drama fans were looking for in the prequels:shoot me. someone. now. please?
"That's not going to happen probably for another year and a half while we develop scripts and everything else. But it's fantastic; we've got some incredible writers. It's going to be much darker, much more character-based, and I think it's going to be everything the fans always wanted the prequels to be. They'll be one-hour episode. It takes place between Episodes III and IV. It's going to be all-new characters, maybe a few bounty hunters in there to start the series off."
if the i'm-beautiful-because-i'm-so-in-love-no-it's-because-i'm-so-in-love-with-you prequels were the final throes of the star wars franchise, this is its mortal blow. a tv series? are they kidding?
words fail me. i'll leave you to imagine for yourself how this news registers with the millions of pre-prequels star wars fans. you'll find me crying into my beer, with the rest of my breed.
but before i go, here's another great clip from the same site:
[George Lucas]'s just finished the Indiana Jones script, and [Steven Spielberg]'s having that rewritten....thanks, steve. WHERE WERE YOU IN 1999?!