Rick McCallum on the Star Wars Tv show..

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**reds8n**

via http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01/09/star-wars-live-action-show-gets-title-description-from-producer-rick-mccallum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BleedingCool+%28Bleeding+Cool+Comic+News+%26+Rumors%29&utm_content=FaceBook

Should you be at work and unable to listen, or not have the requisite six minutes spare, here are a series of key points:

50 scripts have been completed
The episodes are an hour long
Each is “bigger” than “any of the prequels were”
They take place between episode 3 and episode 4
The working title is Star Wars: Underworld and the show is about the “underneath of what is going on”, “the criminals, the gangs that are running like, you know Wall Street, basically running the United States”
McCallum describes the show as “complex”, “dark” and “adult”
The budget could be as much as $5 million per episode
But the show just can’t be made for that at the moment
The budget is high because there are lots of digitally animated characters
McCallum also makes a series of observations on cable TV and the state of the broadcasting nation, but they don’t break down so nicely into bullet points.

I’m not sure we’ll ever see this show. I hope we do, but I’m certainly not going to live in wait.

.. hmm... $5M per episode ...?! Well, we'll chalk this one up as "all that could have been" and move on then.

**Ahtman**

I will have to hear really really good things about this from people that aren't so tied into Star Wars that I can trust their opinion before I watch this. They would need to be Bioware cutscene level good to get me to watch them.

**Flashman**

Lol, just logged onto post something similar, but I see Red beat me to it.

I believe I can resolve the budgetary concerns whilst also improving the quality of the show simply by removing three words from their pitch.

"Digitally Animated Characters"

I'd rather see an Ewok nature documentary than watch another Star Wars spin off infested with crap of this ilk...

**Howard A Treesong**

50 hours worth of scripts?

Why? Most TV shows write a dozen for a first series and might have a long term plan sketched out. You don't write everything and then think about making it. Especially at $5m an episode.

And Lucas's obsession with CGI would be the main cause of that. Just stop turning everything into a fething cartoon.

**Snrub**

Howard A Treesong wrote:50 hours worth of scripts?

Why? Most TV shows write a dozen for a first series and might have a long term plan sketched out. You don't write everything and then think about making it. Especially at $5m an episode.

And Lucas's obsession with CGI would be the main cause of that. Just stop turning everything into a fething cartoon.

This. And everytime something bad went down he would be putting "Noooo0ooo0o0oo0os" in where they aint needed.

**Easy E**

Perhaps they should try traditional animation to cut the costs?

**Flashman**

Easy E wrote:Perhaps they should try traditional animation to cut the costs?

Um...

**CT GAMER**

Easy E wrote:Perhaps they should try traditional animation to cut the costs?

Perhaps they should stop pissing on the grave of my childhood and not bother...

Fething Lucas...