At a screening of “The Empire Strikes Back” last May in Chicago, George Lucas revealed the live-action “Star Wars” TV series – the one he announced in in 2005 that would be set between “Revenge Of The Sith” and “A New Hope” – was “kind of on hold.”
A year later it sounds like it’s really on hold. As in a lot of us may not live long enough to see it.
G4TV this week asked Lucas, promoting Disney’s new “Star Tours” attraction, for an update. From the interview:
G4TV: Switching gears just slightly, it was about a year ago that you said the live action Star Wars show was going to be on hold. Where is the show now? Where does it stand?
GEORGE LUCAS: It sits on the shelf. We have 50 hours and we’re just waiting to figure out a different way of making movies, a different technology that we can use that will make it so it is economically feasible to shoot the show. Right now it looks like the Star Wars features, but we have to figure out a way of making it for about a tenth the cost of the features, because it’s television. And we’re working toward that and we’re continuing to work toward that and we will get there at some point. But it’s just a very, very difficult process and obviously when we do sort of figure this problem out, it will dramatically affect a lot of movies, because a lot of features now that are costing $150-$200 million, we’ll suddenly be able to make them for $50-$60 million.
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