Rick McCallum, who served as producer on the recent Star Wars films,
revealed to Now Playing Magazine some of the details of the two
upcoming TV series based on the franchise created by George Lucas.
"The live-action television series is something we're planning for
just at the beginning of 2007," McCallum said in an interview while
promoting the upcoming DVD of Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the
Sith at Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in northern California. "We're just
starting to interview writers and trying to really figure out which
direction [to go]."
McCallum added that the series will have a different tone than the
features and will introduce characters that weren't seen on the big
screen. "It is going to be much darker, much grittier. It's going to
be character-based. [Lucas] envisions somewhere like 100 hours, [set]
between Episode III and Episode IV, with a lot of characters that we
haven't met, but [who] have been developed in some of the novels and
other things. We're really excited about that, because I think finally
we're going to have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions
once and for all by the time we finish the series.
McCallum also revealed that the live-action series is likely to be
based in Sydney, Australia, and will be filmed in hi-def, while
production on the animated series is already underway at Skywalker
Ranch. "The animation is being done as we speak," he told the
magazine. "It's starting to prep. That's being done here at the Ranch.
A lot of the effects are being done in Singapore. ... I think it's
just now in the conceptual work and script work [phase]. I think
George is trying to get 13 scripts done first before we really start
to get into the pipeline of it. But that'll start happening probably
at the end of March."
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