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Op de website van TV Guide staat deel twee van een interview met George Lucas, waarin hij het een en ander te melden heeft over de twee Star Wars televisieprojecten die in de maak zijn; een animatieserie en een live-action reeks.
Can we talk about the two Star Wars television series you're working on...?
"There's Clone Wars, and we're in the middle of that."
"It's basically like Star Wars [in that it] takes place between, obviously, Episode II and Episode III, but it's the same kind of action. Unfortunately, it doesn't fall into the realm of what animation is, which is either adult, kind of off-color humor or kiddie stuff. This is, like Star Wars, sort of in between those two things. It's a lot of battle stuff, and it's obviously the Clone Wars, so it's a war picture. So it's kind of a PG-13 animated TV series, which is something that has never been done before and obviously doesn't fit in any of the conventional slots that these things fall into. In that, it's very different, and I think it's very exciting. It's got a very, very sophisticated look to it. It's very much like the features. We're still trying to figure out how to put it on the air."
What about your Star Wars live-action series for TV?
"Yes, I'm working on that. We're just going to start writing it in about a month from now, start doing scripts for it."
And where will that live in the Star Wars continuum relative to Clone Wars and relative to the films?
"Well, Clone Wars has got all the characters in it Yoda and Anakin and Obi Wan and the Emperor and all that so it's basically the movie. The live-action series is not the movie. It's the Star Wars universe, but it's characters from the saga who were minor, and it follows their stories. It's set between III and IV, when the Empire has taken over. It's like Episode IV in that the Emperor and Darth Vader are heard about people talk about them but you never see them because it doesn't take place where they actually are. There are stormtroopers and all that, but there are no Jedis. It's different, but I think it's very exciting because I get to explore a part of that universe that I haven't been able to explore. Once you have a saga, it's got a lot of requirements because it's about a particular thing in this case, Darth Vader and so it's his story from the time he's 10 to the time he died. You really can't go off that track because that's the story. Whereas now, I can make a left turn on 10th Street and go down there and see what's going on."
