
Additionally, MTV Movies snagged a cool update on the Star Wars live-action television series. Steve Sansweet told them that the series will indeed "involve some characters we know" and be "of epic scale." More promising, though, is that the show will delve into the "greasy, seamy underbelly of Star Wars." That just sounds incredibly cool. In my youth, I was really into all those spin-off Star Wars novels and it was always great fun when Han Solo, Leia and Luke found themselves having to venture into the unsavory underworld. It was always so much more interesting than Luke recruiting young Jedis. (Check out Erik's Star Wars report from NY Comic Con.)
LucasFilm is hoping to get the series underway by next year, and debut it in 2010. And Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes to theatres August 15, 2008. It's so weird to have Indy and Star Wars (even if it's animated) released in the same summer, isn't it?










1. In before "OMG Jar Jar Suxors!"
I'm really jazzed for both Clone Wars and the LA series. Now that Lucas has gotten that second trilogy out of his system, maybe now we can start to see some different, edgier stuff in that Galaxy Far Far Away.
And they could do a lot worse than to have Matthew Stover write some episodes.
Posted at 7:51PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by King Zilch