"Star Wars" TV Series Confirmed For 100 Episodes, Show's Storyline, News!

“”Star Wars” TV Series Confirmed For 100 Episodes, Show’s Storyline, News!”

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright March 17, 2006

Jedi’s everywhere! Join the celebration! Party and drink some lucky green beer on this St. Patrick’s Day at the “Star Wars” Cantina!!!!

SciFiWire reports that George Lucas’ “Star Wars” Co-Producer, Rick McCallum, confirmed to the BBC, that the GREATLY anticipated, “Star Wars”, live action television series, (not referring to the animated show), will run for a minimum of 100 episodes, and may far exceed that amount!!

McCallum, who was talking with BBC Radio 1 in London, enthused that the writing team for the project has already been assembled and will be meeting shortly to begin working on the series.

McCallum, Lucas, and company are hoping for film production to begin in 2008!

SciFiWire says that McCallum told BBC Radio 1 that, “Hopefully, if we can make it work, and everybody’s excited and watches it, (YOU know, that YOU will! As so will WE!), we will keep on going.”

We hear that the proposed series, still of course in development, will take place in the time period between “Star Wars”, “Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith” and “Episode 4: A New Hope”, spanning the back story and very early years of young Luke Skywalker, as we see him grow up from a child to the young man who became a top gun flight pilot, already a Jedi in the making.

When we last saw Luke, it was in the very end of “Sith”, released as the final “Star Wars” film in 2005, as a newborn infant, being handed over by Obi Wan, to Luke’s Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, who became Luke’s surrogate parents.

But, in “A New Hope” which actually was the first “Star Wars” film, released in 1977, we saw Luke, already a young man, bored with his mundane life as a moisture farmer on the rural, remote planet of Tatooine, eager to leave home, and journey the galaxies in search of adventure....

….which Luke certainly found when the 2 droids C-3PO and R2-D2 literally fell into his life and pointed the way to his much greater destiny as a Jedi Knight, Master, and the ultimate hero who would redeem Darth Vader, and by doing so, help fulfill the prophecy that Anakin, (Luke’s father), would destroy the evil Sith, bring balance to the Force, and bring peace back to the galaxy!

So now, we will get to see the first 20 some years of Luke’s life, including the events, people, characters, and FORCE, that all were pre-ordained, in shaping, perhaps science fiction cinema’s most iconic hero!

WE are quite excited, especially, to see Luke’s childhood friendship with fighter pilot, Biggs Darklighter, as the two hone their skills as young gunner pilots on Tatooine.

McCallum also says that we can look forward to “a whole bunch of new characters”, and that the series will be “much more dramatic and darker”.

Our biggest anticipation and excitement, obviously, is about which actors will be chosen to play the many stages and ages of Luke as he grows from toddler to strapping, youthful man!

We are also eager to see what other cast members join the series! And knowing how much of Hollywood’s elite have ardently expressed their own fandom of, and desire to work in the “Star Wars” film franchise legend….

….we recall in “Sith” press interviews, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, and Ian McDiarmid all but doing back flips about their opportunities to work in the prequels….

….and Samuel L. Jackson, in particular, openly expressing his exuberance, over perhaps working in the TV series….

….we have a feeling that the TOAST of Hollywood will be knocking on Lucas’ door to appear in this stratospherically touted TV series!

No word yet, on what television network will gain the privilege of broadcasting the “Star Wars” TV series, but you can bet the moisture farm! that whatever TV network garners this major feather in its cap, can be assured of a ratings blockbuster, so prepare for a bidding war among the TV Networks for this FORCEFUL, sweet deal!

Set your TV channel for 2008!!!!

Source:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35025

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By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright March 17, 2006