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STAR WARS: THE TV SERIES
Tuesday, April 26 2005
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Suggesting that next month's release of the sixth Star Wars film, The Revenge of the Sith, will amount only to "the end of the beginning," as Churchill once remarked, George Lucas has told Celebration III, a Star Wars convention in Indiana, that he plans to carry the sci-fi battles further -- on television. He indicated that he has immediate plans to start an animated series of half-hour shows that will be produced in 3D, to be followed by a live-action series. ("We're probably not going to start that for about a year.") The live-action series, he said, would comprise stories set during the period between episodes three and four of the theatrical movies. After all, he explained, the six films actually amount to "the Darth Vader story. It starts with him being a young boy and it ends with him dying. I never ever really considered ever taking that particular story further." The animated series, Lucas indicated, would take place in the period following Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Meanwhile, 1,000 tickets to a back-to-back marathon screening of all six Star Wars films in London on May 16 sold out in minutes Monday. Oddly, they will be shown in the order they were produced, beginning with Episode IV: A New Hope at 7:00 a.m. and ending with Episode III: Revenge of the Sith at midnight.
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