Live-Action "Star Wars" TV Series.....

[Greg1138 3]

Just wondered.....

[RuBen_Kenobi 20]

I have voted for the third option. I am a huge SW fan (i´m a Jedi!) but I don´t know what to think about these series. I love the SW films, but i´m not a big fan of the UE (the books, comics...). When I think about space series I think about Star Trek, and I don´t like Star Trek. Well we have to wait and see. I have more confidence in the animated series (i loved "Clone Wars") than in the "real action" ones. Young Indy was a good one anyway, so we can hope for a good thing. The TV series are getting better and better in the last years. But SW series without the main characters and very possible without, Williams´s music... I don´t know what to think, but as SW fan sad by the end of the saga with Episode III i can only have faith in the new series

[fommes 159]

Option four. Star Wars is not over until he releases the original trilogy. Then he can have a shave.

[deimos 0]

I don't like the idea. Maybe CW is OK, even more, it's cool. But I don't want SW to become Stargate.

[Mr. Breathmask 582]

Yuck.

I also don't like that Clone Wars will be continuing as CG. They'd better use a good style for that.

[Lurker 5]

Get a grip, George! Star Wars is OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Move on, have a shave, go on a date......

Neil

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,759]

One might argue that they has nor been a live-action Star wars since 1983.

[stewdog1 50]

Give it to Ira Steven Behr and watch the magic unfold.

I'm curious as to see how this will pan out. There is a lot of potential for something good.

[Justin 2]

Uh....errrrrrrr...no.

Justin - Who thinks the idea is foolish simply because it's a slap in the face to John Williams and his musical vision. (That's one of the reasons.)

[SturgisPodmore 0]

Yes, this sucks.

~Sturgis, option #5

[Greg1138 3]

LOL Even though the joke is a little old Sturg, I still crack up reading your sig......

Simple tunes....

LOL

[John Crichton 4]

Option 3.

[Jynxpossum 0]

It sounds interesting but the image of Star Wars has faded through the lukewarm reception of the two prequels so far. Turning the Star Wars saga it into a cheaply made tv spinoff like Stargate SG1 will only further tarnish SW's reputation. IMO

If it's good then I might be interested.

[SturgisPodmore 0]

LOL Even though the joke is a little old Sturg, I still crack up reading your sig......

Simple tunes....

LOL

Loogatit now.

~Sturgis

[Luke Skywalker 2,117]

I hope ILM is involved in this fully. I dont want it otherwise.

And about the clones wars... if they are made CGI as the clones in the movie, i dont mind at all

[Ricardo Mortimer 43]

Star Wars Underworld Test Footage with music from AotC

 

 

[igger6 983]

Whoa!  That was...not well acted.  But with a little spit-shine on the writing and those production values, that could have been awesome!

[Meredith McKay 7,519]

36 minutes ago, igger6 said:

Whoa!  That was...not well acted. 

Yeah, about the same as in a lot of the prequel deleted scenes.

[Manakin Skywalker 5,591]

That looks exactly like a shitty fan film from last decade. No wonder it was cancelled. CG is awful, acting is terrible, camera work is sub-par, etc.

[rough cut 1,763]

Wow, I think you guys are a bit harsh considering it is test footage.

[Manakin Skywalker 5,591]

22 minutes ago, rough cut said:

Wow, I think you guys are a bit harsh considering it is test footage.

 

True, but I mean the whole point of test footage like this is to showcase the best possible technology to estimate a budget. If this is the best CG, camera work, etc. they were able to afford, then that's pretty bad.

[Laserschwert 557]

Thank god this didn't get made. And thanks to the advances in technology that The Mandalorian looks so much better than this. I mean, a show shot entirely on green screen? This was bound to fail.

[rough cut 1,763]

6 hours ago, Manakin Skywalker said:

 

True, but I mean the whole point of test footage like this is to showcase the best possible technology to estimate a budget.

 

Nah, I don’t think it necessarily had to end up looking like this. Test footage is test footage - not necessarily the same as the end produc - more likely is that production value all around would get a significant bump up if the show would have been green lit.

 

Test footage is just as likely to be a show reel to get a grasp of the feeling in the show and to answer “can we pull it off?” - both technology-wise as well as market-wise.

[Edmilson 10,103]

 

George Lucas had "over 60 scripts" for a "Star Wars" series that would've cost "$40 million an episode." It got axed when Disney bought Lucasfilm. 

“These were dark [scripts]. They were sexy. They were violent... it would’ve blown up the whole ‘Star Wars’ universe and Disney would’ve definitely never offered George to buy the franchise," says producer Rick McCallum. "It's one of the great disappointments of our lives [that it didn't get made]. The problem was that each episode was bigger than the films, so the lowest I could get it down to with the each that existed then was $40 million an episode.”

 

The series was “Star Wars: Underworld." It was one of the last “Star Wars” projects Lucas was working on before he sold the franchise to Disney in 2012 for $4.05 billion. "Underworld" was set between the events of “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope.”

 

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/george-lucas-axed-star-wars-series-40-million-an-episode-1236335170/

[DarthDementous 1,360]

40 million an episode???

 

I know Lucas is rich but surely that wouldn't have been feasible

[Mr. Hooper 4,595]

17 minutes ago, DarthDementous said:

40 million an episode???

 

I know Lucas is rich but surely that wouldn't have been feasible

 

It was ahead of its time, unfortunately. But 'The Mandalorian' and others have since shown what's possible on the Small Screen, with new and more cost-effective production methods. I'd love to see it made, and with Lucas' involvement.

[DarthDementous 1,360]

37 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

 

It was ahead of its time, unfortunately. But 'The Mandalorian' and others have since shown what's possible on the Small Screen, with new and more cost-effective production methods. I'd love to see it made, and with Lucas' involvement.

 

yeah it's no wonder Lucas is supportive of The Mandalorian with that context

 

Underworld would definitely be more feasible now, especially with the success of Andor

[Tallguy 5,266]

But he was too busy making his small, personal films.

 

Hey, for them what know the Secret Lore: In the intro to the novelization of Star Wars the Emperor connives his way into power and becomes a figurehead, shut away from the public and controlled by the bureaucrats (the deep state?) while the likes of Grand Moff Tarkin run the show.

 

Did any of that come from Lucas? Or was that from Foster, filling in what he saw in the script?

[Jay 41,649]

Seems like the Mandoverse saga takes some inspiration from these old ideas

[Luke Skywalker 2,117]

If the scripts were decent, it would be nice if they made the series nowadays with the new tech.

 

Probably would be much 4original than we are getting lately.

[Gabriel Bezerra 550]

I don't think we need another thing  between RotS and Star Wars though

[DarthDementous 1,360]

2 hours ago, Gabriel Bezerra said:

I don't think we need another thing  between RotS and Star Wars though

 

yeah that is very oversaturated by this point

[Tallguy 5,266]

11 hours ago, Gabriel Bezerra said:

I don't think we need another thing  between RotS and Star Wars though

 

That's The War. Besides how many hours have we had between RotS and SW? Versus how many hours have we had between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith? With mostly the same lead characters?

 

Give me ONE series set between SW and Empire. With Luke, Han, and Leia. And Vader. You know? STAR WARS? If they could keep Grievous and Anakin apart (or was it Greivous and Obi-Wan?) for seven seasons of Clone Wars they can manage to keep Vader and Luke apart. How many seasons of The Fugitive did Gerard NOT catch Kimble?

[pete 1,061]

On 13/03/2025 at 7:35 AM, Edmilson said:

 

George Lucas had "over 60 scripts" for a "Star Wars" series that would've cost "$40 million an episode." It got axed when Disney bought Lucasfilm. 

 

 

Ronald Moore talks about being involved in this, and he wrote two of the scripts

 

 

[Tallguy 5,266]

I NEED to see RDM and Lucas arguing about Darth Vader!!!

[Pieter Boelen 906]

On 14/03/2025 at 11:03 AM, Tallguy said:

Give me ONE series set between SW and Empire. With Luke, Han, and Leia. And Vader. You know? STAR WARS?

Ooh, that'd be nice indeed! 

There's even very few novels in that time frame. 

But I like the two Timothy Zahn Legends set during that period.

[Meredith McKay 7,519]

6 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Ooh, that'd be nice indeed! 

There's even very few novels in that time frame. 

But I like the two Timothy Zahn Legends set during that period.

Allegiance and Choices of One?

[Pieter Boelen 906]

On 16/03/2025 at 9:53 AM, Meredith McKay said:

Allegiance and Choices of One?

Yup, exactly those. 

Choices of One even explains where the Snowspeeders on Hoth came from.

[Tallguy 5,266]

21 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Choices of One even explains where the Snowspeeders on Hoth came from.

 

Sigh. This is where Star Wars went wrong.

 

Brian Daley tells us that Artoo sabotaged the other astromech droid? Cute. West End tells us he goes on to become a Jedi Droid? Good grief, make it stop.

 

"The Rebel Alliance is too well equipped. They're more dangerous than you realize." See? All good!

[Mr. Hooper 4,595]

33 minutes ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Yup, exactly those. 

Choices of One even explains where the Snowspeeders on Hoth came from.

I've never once wondered where they came from. All I knew was that they had trouble adapting them to the cold. But now I must know. Where did they come from??

[Meredith McKay 7,519]

13 minutes ago, Mr. Hooper said:

I've never once wondered where they came from. All I knew was that they had trouble adapting them to the cold. But now I must know. Where did they come from??

Poln Minor/Major, in The Candoras Sector. They escaped with them, along with other things (ships etc.)

[Tallguy 5,266]

You know, I complain about that but when the hammerhead ships that Leia helped steal in Rebels showed up in Rogue One I got pretty excited.

[Mr. Hooper 4,595]

Me tonight, knowing that the snowspeeders came from the Candoras Sector...

 

[Smeltington 1,720]

Me tonight, not knowing why you're sleeping with the lights on, in your normal clothes, with perfectly coiffed hair...

 

[DarthDementous 1,360]

4 hours ago, Tallguy said:

West End tells us he goes on to become a Jedi Droid? Good grief, make it stop.

 

I'm 90% sure that is from a joke Infinities (non canon) comic

[Manakin Skywalker 5,591]

Wait, if the snowspeeders had trouble being adapted to the cold, that would mean they weren't designed to be used in cold/snowy environments. So now why the hell are they called snowspeeders?

[Meredith McKay 7,519]

23 minutes ago, Manakin Skywalker said:

Wait, if the snowspeeders had trouble being adapted to the cold, that would mean they weren't designed to be used in cold/snowy environments. So now why the hell are they called snowspeeders?

The adapted versions are called that. The originals are airspeeders.

[Tallguy 5,266]

28 minutes ago, DarthDementous said:

 

I'm 90% sure that is from a joke Infinities (non canon) comic

 

That may be, but the entire profile on the droid from the West End source books is not.

 

Have you looked at the IMDB page for Star Wars (A New Hope, of course)? Look at how many uncredited extra's characters have NAMES. I have no idea who most of these characters are. And I'm a NERD.

[Meredith McKay 7,519]

33 minutes ago, DarthDementous said:

 

I'm 90% sure that is from a joke Infinities (non canon) comic

Tales, not Infinities.

[Mr. Hooper 4,595]

1 hour ago, Manakin Skywalker said:

Wait, if the snowspeeders had trouble being adapted to the cold, that would mean they weren't designed to be used in cold/snowy environments. So now why the hell are they called snowspeeders?

 

38 minutes ago, Meredith McKay said:

The adapted versions are called that. The originals are airspeeders.

But they weren't fully adapted yet. I think the engineers in their hubris jumped the gun by christening them "snowspeeders" too soon. lol