Rick McCallum Updates On Live Action Star Wars TV Series!

Rick McCallum Updates On Live Action Star Wars TV Series!

The producer of the upcoming Star Wars TV series gives us a lot of info about where filming may start, when they'll begin adding special effects, the plot, and touches on plans of releasing all the films in 3D...

By PaulRom - Jun 10, 2011 06:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Star Wars
Source: CeskaPozice.cz



In a recent interview, Rick McCallum - who produced the Young Indiana Jones TV series and will produce the upcoming Star Wars series - says that Prague, Czech is in the running for filming the show, as well as explaining why the show is currently on hold. He also gives the basic storyline, comparing it to The Godfather, and also confirms plans of re-releasing a Star Wars film in 3D every year, starting in February with The Phantom Menace.

On the possibility of shooting in Prague...
Oh, absolutely. This would be one of the primary places because of the talent.


On why the TV series is currently on hold...
The TV series is on hold, but that has nothing to do with the Czech Republic; it has to do with [the episodes being] so ambitious. We have 50 hours of third-draft scripts, but the problem we have is there is a lot of digital animation; we don’t have the technology yet to be able to do them at a price that is safe for television. Since we would be financing them, it would be suicide for us to do this [now]. So we are going to wait three or four years.


On the basic storyline of the series...
“It takes place between episodes three and four, when Luke Skywalker was growing up as a teenager, but it has nothing to do with Luke,” he said, adding that there is no young Luke Skywalker in any of the episodes.
“Basically, it is like The Godfather; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s [about] a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution,” McCallum said.


On plans of re-releasing the Star Wars films in 3D each year...
We’re doing 3D versions of all six films, one a year, starting in February of next year. We start with [episode] one and go all the way through six, totally chronological,” he said. But the first one is a somewhat of a test. “One a year, if they work. If they don’t, then there will be just one [episode converted to 3D].


The currently untitled live action Star Wars TV series is currently on hold, and it is unknown when it will start airing on the small screen.
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marvel72
marvel72 - 6/10/2011, 6:24 AM
tv series sounds cool,not such a fan of re-releasing the films in 3-d.

its just another way of making money on something we've seen in two other cuts already.

but they need to get the tv show made right away,f*ck three to four years.
airbeyonder18
airbeyonder18 - 6/10/2011, 6:40 AM
A Star Wars Godfather? That souds stupid.....If it's all about the "underground bosses" then I'm not going to waste my time watching the series when it airs.
Jer3miah
Jer3miah - 6/10/2011, 6:49 AM
Whoever buys this crap when its released in 3D should be lynched and bankrupt for being dumb enough to spend their money every time these corporate assholes create a new reason to release this shit. I mean, c'mon -- 3D???? THey've re-released this damn property like 17 times in the past 30 years. Give it a f*cking rest. If anybody buys it, they'll be labelled dumbass puppet of the century.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 6/10/2011, 7:02 AM
I like the idea of a tv show just not one about a younger Luke. It would be nice if they did one after he destroyed the Empire
Deadshot
Deadshot - 6/10/2011, 7:09 AM
""but the problem we have is there is a lot of digital animation""

digital animation SUCKS, it makes everything look fake! Use models and puppets! There's a reason why EVERYTHING looks cooler and more real in the original trilogy when compared to the new one.
Moakynubs
Moakynubs - 6/10/2011, 7:11 AM
I think that Star Wars in 3D would be pretty cool... At the very least, it'd be cool to see Episodes IV-VI in theaters because I wasn't quite existing the first time they came out.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 6/10/2011, 7:17 AM
@deadshot-Your right practical effects and make up is better for some movies mainly because it gives it a realistic feel.
blueorangeny
blueorangeny - 6/10/2011, 7:24 AM
so just make it into a film if the tv budget would be suicide.
Raythbane
Raythbane - 6/10/2011, 9:22 AM
@Jer3miah would you prefer Cheddar or Swiss to go with your wine?
Talontd
Talontd - 6/10/2011, 9:38 AM
No Jedi = FAIL
JackBauer
JackBauer - 6/12/2011, 7:48 AM
They are overthinking the tv show. It doesn't need to be as ambitious as they are trying to make it sound.
TheSecretAvenger
TheSecretAvenger - 6/13/2011, 9:56 AM
I hope they feature how Vader killed Kento Marek and what happened to his wife.
subzero1077
subzero1077 - 6/14/2011, 12:52 PM
They should make the series about Darth Bane! That would be amazing!!!!!!!!
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