OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN!
At the Television Critics Association press tour, ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey was asked if she’d ever consider teaming up with Disney and Lucasfilm to make a ‘Star Wars’ television series.
And in a shocking twist, Dungey said to press after the panel that talks were already bloody well happening. WHAT?!
“Oh, as a fan, I would absolutely love to say ‘Yes,’”.The conversations with Lucas, we have had conversations with them and will continue to have conversations with them. I think it would be wonderful if we could find a way to extend that brand into our programming.”It’s all a little bit hush-hush. That company exists under a big shroud of secrecy. If you feel Marvel’s secretive, [Lucasfilm] takes it to a whole other level.[Talks] are ongoing. We don’t have an official timeline yet.”
Someone asked if the series was live-action, but Dungey would not say.
Entertainment Weekly reports that a ‘Star Wars‘ telly series has been a project passed around for yonks:
‘The series followed rival families struggling over the control of the seedy underside of the Star Wars universe and was largely set within the subterranean level of the metropolis planet of Coruscant (the Empire’s urban-sprawl-covered home planet).The story was set between the original Star Wars film trilogy and the prequels, a time period that allowed for all sorts of potential appearances from classic figures from the Star Wars universe.’
Fifty scripts were allegedly written, and Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum said the project was the most “provocative, bold, and daring material that we’ve ever done”, but the project was deemed wayyyyyy too spenno for a bunch of networks – plus HBO passed because a big enough ownership stake wasn’t available.
But still – let all the force-users and forceless amongst us come together and cross our fingers. Plssssss.
Source: Entertainment Weekly.
Photo: The Force Awakens.
