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Better than nothing
Lucas will make two more live-action films set in everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away. These films will likely be an hour each, and will air on television, though he doesn't know on what channel (The Sci-Fi network?). Says Lucas of the films, "they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters. They will be other people of that milieu."
Here is one report. The episodes are supposed to be set between installments III and IV and they are scheduled for 2009.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on May 10, 2007 at 09:39 AM in Film | Permalink
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IMHO, nothing actually would be better. :)
Posted by: jp at May 10, 2007 10:24:40 AM
George Lucas just doesn't get that Starwars became a hit basically on accident. Every attempt he makes to correct it or expand on it is just terrible.
Posted by: Timothy at May 10, 2007 10:40:24 AM
jp -- exactly.
Star Wars series died when he trotted out the dancing and singing Ewoks. We have 2 3/4 good movies.
Posted by: Anon E. Mouse at May 10, 2007 11:27:53 AM
No kidding JP, that's what I came here from my RSS reader to say. Who the heck would possibly think this will be better than nothing? Agh.
Posted by: Joe Bingham at May 10, 2007 11:53:23 AM
Hopefully these will be better than the Ewok Adventure.
Posted by: Thelonious_Nick at May 10, 2007 12:00:13 PM
Actually, the series died with the words: "I am your father."
Or, rather, when it came to light that those words were in fact true.
Posted by: MikeP at May 10, 2007 1:12:57 PM
Don't hate. This is great news. There is always room for more Star Wars . . .
Posted by: Fletch at May 10, 2007 4:05:18 PM
C'mon, who can forget the Star Wars Christmas Special? One for the ages...
Posted by: stprice at May 11, 2007 8:29:25 AM
The only thing good to come out of the Star Wars prequel trilogy was the Clone Wars cartoons. (Seriously, they have more action, pathos, and energy than all three of the movies put together.)
Posted by: Xmas at May 11, 2007 9:42:06 AM
