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GEORGE LUCAS TO FOCUS ON TELEVISION
Tuesday, August 2 2005
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George Lucas said Monday that in the aftermath of the completion of his Star Wars films, he plans to focus on television, "but it's not a vision I'm running, either as executive producer or to be laying out the groundwork," he insisted. Nevertheless, his words did not seem to jibe with the description of Lucasfilm's first major TV projects, both of which were inspired by Lucas's Star Wars. Speaking at the annual Siggraph computer graphics conference in Los Angeles, Lucas said that his initial TV project will be the animated Clone Wars, to be produced at Lucas Animation's facilities in Singapore, where he's building up a computer animation production plant. He also said that he plans to begin production of a Star Wars live-action series using off-the-shelf consumer digital cameras that will allow him to keep costs down. ""What would normally cost $20-30 million we can do for $1 million," he said. Comparing the TV show to the Star Wars movies, he said: "Television is an easier medium to work in. ... There's less pressure and it's a great medium to experiment in."
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