There’s long been talk of a live-action “Star Wars” TV show, and George Lucas has completed 50 hours’ worth of scripts for the project. Thankfully, the technology needed to make the show a reality doesn’t exist yet.
Lucas told G4TV, the techie cable channel, that — in TV terms — he has scripts for two seasons of the new “Star Wars” series already written. But the series is awaiting the development of “a different type of technology we can use so it’s economically feasible to shoot the shows.” He did not say what the breakthrough would do, only that it was “just a very, very difficult process.” [NY Post]
If the notion of Lucas, the man who made Indiana Jones and the Magic Alien Skull and Buried Spaceship, making a “Star Wars” TV show doesn’t terrify you, perhaps you need to remember that he said the series would be “Deadwood meets The Sopranos in space” and could go on for twenty years. At this point, the only difference between George Lucas and a rambling homeless derelict is the hundreds of millions of dollars Lucas has. Also, hobos don’t eat cats.
