New TV series and their place in canon, latest updated info

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New TV series and their place in canon, latest updated info

Post by Mr. Oragahn » Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:40 pm

For those concerned about the place of those new TV series in the SW canon, here's what we can say about it.
So here we go.

Robert's page about the TV show.

There was a bit of very interesting info that popped out in march.
EXCLUSIVE: MAY THE FORCE BE ON TELLY 100 EPISODES TO END STAR WARS
By Caroline Hedley

STAR Wars is to be turned into a TV series after creator George Lucas agreed to complete his epic sci-fi fantasy.

The 100 episodes will fill in the missing years between 2005 prequel Episode III Revenge of the Sith and original 1977 movie Episode IV Star Wars. It will spark a multi-million pound bidding war between the BBC and ITV.

Series producer Rick McCullum confirmed the TV version would go ahead.

Speaking at the Empire Film Awards in London he said: "We're very excited - we just got confirmation George Lucas has committed himself to writing the Star Wars TV series. I guess this is the news all fans have been waiting to hear."

The movies are among the most popular ever made and tell the story of the descent into evil of Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker and his redemption by son Luke.

The first movie, Episode IV, has so far grossed £443million. It was followed by Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back and VI, Return of the Jedi.

Lucas waited nearly 20 years for special effects to improve before producing the prequels, starring Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman.

In the final Star Wars prequel, Revenge Of The Sith, Anakin (Christensen) joined the dark side to become Darth Vader.

The TV series will focus on the rise of Darth Vader's dark empire and will feature original actor Anthony Daniels, who played dithering droid C3P0.

None of the other cast, including Ewan McGregor in the prequels and Carrie Fisher in the first three movies, will be involved.

Rick explained: "It'll all be new because the originals will all be too old. But we will be using Anthony as C3P0 because there is such a thing as loyalty."
Source.

Lucas is not only the producer beyond the show, which is quite obvious, but is directly involved in the writing. Basically, it could be close to Empire's case, where Lucas wasn't behind the camera. Maybe he'll have a certain control though, like over Marquand for Jedi (though we can hope relations won't go as bad as they were rumoured to be back in 83).

All in all, we're probably looking at a very high canon stuff. That's for the live actors show though, since I don't know what the new anime is about.

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