Star Wars series to run and run

George Lucas has been working on the fourth Indiana Jones
The TV series spin-off of the Stars Wars film franchise will run to at least 100 episodes, according to producer Rick McCallum.
He told BBC Radio 1 the writing team would soon be meeting to start on the project, which would begin filming in 2008 and be ready the same year.

"Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody's excited and watches it we will keep on going," said McCallum.

The series will be set between episodes three and four of the film saga.

It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers.

McCallum said there would be "a whole bunch of new characters" and the series would be "much more dramatic and darker".

Huge franchise

He added that it was unlikely any of the stars of the movies would be involved in the TV series.

Star Wars creator George Lucas has just completed writing the script for the next Indiana Jones film and will then begin work on Red Tails, about African-American pilots in World War II.

Following completion of that film, work will begin on the Star Wars TV series.

There has already been a Star Wars series spin-off in the shape of the animated Clone Wars, which began as three-minute episodes before they were expanded to 30-minute shows.

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, released in 2005, marked the end of the end of the Star Wars saga on the big screen.

It became the biggest film franchise in history, with the final film alone taking £500m at the box office outside of the US.

It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers.

McCallum said there would be "a whole bunch of new characters" and the series would be "much more dramatic and darker".

New characters... Darker and more dramatic. For the film-goer.

Which makes me wonder how many toes the series will step on in terms of the Expanded Universe authors.

Here's hoping for the best.

it makes me think of what they did with the Young Indiana Jones stuff

I just don't see "Young Luke Skywalker" being very dark and gritty.

We'll see.

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I just don't see "Young Luke Skywalker" being very dark and gritty.

We'll see.

I find myself especially wary after what they did to "young Darth Vader".

I thought it was going to be about other characters and galactic happenings between the 2 trilogies. This is kind of a let down.

Young Han Solo, that would be dark and gritty. The novels were dark enough, IIRC. Been years since I read them.

Yeah, I thought so too Hyfe. I was hoping for a series about Vader hunting and killing stuff, and the last few Jedi making a stand, or running and hiding.

Still, I refuse to pass final judgement before I see it.

By new characters, an emphasis on that being, characters not seen in the Movies. So there could be EU characters present. If this is about the rise of the Empire, I would love to see Mara Jade and Thrawn in action. Maybe one sequence could be the destruction of Outbound flight hmmm?

I would love to see Mara Jade and Thrawn in action.

So would every geek and nerd locked in their parents basement; forced to be content with "regular" porn.