Ian McDiarmid Comments On Returning As 'The Emperor' In Live-Action STAR WARS TV Show

Yes! Just bring it!

Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen!.

Hopefully it will be more like this;













Wanna see me some Twi'lek hookers.

[frick] can't wait for this....................

I always think of Mr. Burns from the Simpsons when I see him.

Heck. Yes. Do it! This show sounds awesome already (if it ever happens), and adding Ian to the cast would be insane! This guy was one of the best actors in the whole prequels. It would be great since it's saying that the empire's power will be rising, they could have moments that tie into the story where we see Palpatine in the senate winning people over to join them. And also some scenes with Vader getting orders from him. And a side thought, I want Jedi showing up to be very rare, but when they do, it's epic. Like have an episode where a bounty hunter is hired to kill a hiding Jedi. Oh yeah. This show could be the making of much nerdgasms in the future :D

@Darkmetal;

Actually, it is.
The official line is currently the episodes are costing too much per episode. At the scale they wnt to do them there are working out production-wise as a couple of million, and they want to get that down to a couple of hundred thousand per episode. Thats the reason behind the apparent 'developmental hell'.

I suspect that the emphasis on cost wil likely mean that it will be as greenscreen-heavy as the prequels, which would be a shame in my opinion.

it's re: a tv show

From EW.com:

McCallum said of Star Wars: Underworld;
“It’s just a working title.” A working title that may actually be quite revealing. The series has long been thought to focus on either peripheral characters from the movies or new characters outright — with nary a Jedi in sight — during the 19-year span between Episode III and Episode IV, the period during which the Empire was still consolidating its grip on that Galaxy Far, Far Away. “Underworld” suggests that the series will focus on the galaxy’s sordid demimonde. “Absolutely,” McCallum confirms. “Expect a lot of smugglers, gangsters, bounty hunters, and a few Wall Street-type power brokers. Nothing about Luke or the Skywalker saga.”

The initial appeal of the series was that it would fill in a relatively blank part of Star Wars history. But in the years since Episode III, a number of comics, novels, and videogames (all considered canon, since they’re officially licensed by Lucasfilm) have begun to shed new light on that period, possibly presenting some continuity constraints for a series. In fact, a number of behind-the-scenes moves over the past few years have fueled speculation: George Lucas himself ordered that popular Jedi rogue Quinlan Vos survive the Star Wars: Republic comics series; A.C. Crispin’s proposed young Princess Leia novel series was canceled, as was a Boba Fett novel to be penned by Mandalorian obsessive Karen Traviss. Could this mean that Vos, Leia, and Fett could be involved in a TV series?

Obviously, McCallum isn’t saying. But the fact that over 50 scripts have been penned “by writers hailing from Europe, Australia, and North America,” according to McCallum, suggests that the show could be envisioned as an anthology series, sort of like a television analogue to the Tales of the Mos Eisley Cantina short-story project in the ’90s, with many already-established aspects of the Expanded Universe included.

Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait for a long time indeed, to find out. When I asked McCallum if the show is still three or four years off, he said, “Even longer. Because I think we don’t have the technology yet to be able to do it for the level of money that it would have to be done. Plus, the world of television is imploding. No one knows whether you should make a network show or a cable show. I’m really excited about it though, and I hope George does do it. I really do.”

ill only watch if lucas has no part in it

I WANT EPISODES 7 8 AND 9!!!!!

I think a Star Wars TV series would be a cool thing to see, I hope Lucasfilm figures out how they want to budget it so it can finally go into production. I don't think that episodes 7, 8, and 9 are all that necessary, the films in the original trilogy are some of the best movies ever made, they should leave the story there.

... and we all just want Jar jar as well...

Why are they worried about costs?Lucas has more money than GOD!!!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! sorry had to do that but we don't need a tv series of what happens between episodes 3&4 they made half decent games for that. My son doesnt even watch the clone wars cartoon cause he said "I thought the movies explained what happened this seems kida lame" and he was 11 when he said that.