Het was al langer [urlnoblank=http://www.filmtotaal.nl/module.php?section=newsDetails&newsID=3090]bekend[/urlnoblank] dat er hoogstwaarschijnlijk een Star Wars televisieserie zou gaan verschijnen. George Lucas had daarover nog niet officieel duidelijkheid gegeven, maar in een interview met USA-Today gaf de regisseur aan dat er inderdaad plannen in die richting zijn.

[eng]"Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it.....You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting."[/eng]

En wie die right people zijn? Website IESB sprak met, naar eigen zeggen, betrouwbare bronnen die meldden dat regisseur Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma, Jersey Girl) een van de belangrijkste gegadigden is.

[eng]"Kevin Smith would be the ideal person to handle a Star Wars TV series. He is well recognized with the fandom and he was worked on some capacity with Lucasfilm during a Hasbro commercial a few years back, he is also a very good writer."[/eng]