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McCallum on the Star Wars TV Series Source: Empire Online
March 14, 2006
Producer Rick McCallum gave Empire Online an update on the upcoming live-action "Star Wars" TV series.
"That's not going to happen probably for another year and a half while we develop scripts and everything else," he says. "But it's fantastic; we've got some incredible writers. It's going to be much darker, much more character-based, and I think it's going to be everything the fans always wanted the prequels to be. They'll be one-hour episodes. It takes place between Episodes III and IV. It's going to be all-new characters, maybe a few bounty hunters in there to start the series off."
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ah, they're seeing that we ate up Episode III while the more fu-fu Episodes I and II didn't do so well at the box office. Darkness, violence, anger, drama, moral tragedies, that's entertainment. Watching politics for 2+ hours then you kill off your coolest bad guy (Maul) in 20 years in the only film he appears in, that's not very good now is it?
barring that, I did like Eps I and II, they're still star wars.
McCallum on Upcoming Star Wars Projects Source: SCI FI Wire
May 3, 2006
Producer Rick McCallum told SCI FI Wire at the Saturn Awards on Tuesday that George Lucas is starting the basic concept of the new live-action "Star Wars" TV series. "We're interviewing writers. We're seeing a lot of people. But I'd say it's not going to be happening for another at least 18 months," said McCallum.
He repeated that the show will take place in the timeframe between "Episode III" and "IV" with all new characters. "That missing 20-year period when Luke is growing up... Think bounty hunter. That's all I can tell you. There's nobody else that you'll know [in it]."
I liked my Dengar action figure. He was like half-man, half-accident victim.
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Bonus: here's his wikipedia
Dengar appeared briefly in The Empire Strikes Back and can also be spotted among the menagerie of fiends at Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi. The cold bounty hunter and pilot of Punishing One was hired by the Empire to hunt down the Millennium Falcon. He appeared as a middle-aged man of heavy-build in dark brown armor with cloth wrapped around his head.
In addition to the reward promised by Vader, Dengar was especially eager to find the Falcon from a personal grudge he held against Han Solo. Dengar injured himself badly in a swoop race with Solo and was forced to take drastic measures to preserve his life; he became a cyborg thanks to Imperial experimentation. The parts of his brain controlling emotions such as compassion, mercy and pity were removed, leaving him a shell of his former self, a completely merciless killer. During much of his career he was considered more ruthless than Boba Fett himself, and usually performed assassinations rather than live captures. Despite all of this, Dengar was not an evil man; he simply couldn't help the fact that the Empire had modified his brain. He was often disgusted at what he had done.
Eventually Dengar would meet a humanoid woman called Manaroo and fall in love. Through sharing her mind with Dengar, Manaroo gave him back his senses of love and compassion. Dengar then renounced his occupation as a bounty hunter, and after a brief spell as partner with Fett, he retired.
Interesting note: Dengar was the one who found Boba Fett after he was "eaten" by the Sarlacc. He rescued him and he and his girlfriend Manaroo, and the Twi'lek Neelah were the only people to see Boba Fett's face since he became a bounty hunter.
In Dark Force Rising, by Timothy Zahn, Mara Jade is taken prisoner for a short time by a bounty hunter. She later kills the man, and after searching him for identification, finds an ID card that reads Dengar Roth. It was later revealed that this was a forged ID card carried by a man impersonating the real Dengar.
While the likes of Sex and the City and Get Smart are moving to the big screen from the tube, George Lucas is doing the opposite with Star Wars. The director apparently has talked to HBO about a new live action SW drama described as "Deadwood meets The Sopranos in outer space." Said to be a dark drama with adult themes, it would not include any of the well-known characters from the Star Wars universe (yes, good news for all you Hayden Christensen haters out there) and would be set in the time between Revenge of the Sith and the action of the first (now fourth) Star Wars flick. The drama would launch after The Clone Wars, the animated, kid-friendly series that will debut as a full-length movie on Aug. 15 and then move on to a weekly episode format on the Cartoon Network.
Jeeze. Lucas sure is milking the Star Wars product for all it's worth. That's not to say I don't think this sounds interesting, but I think I might like it better if it were just a new scifi show, ala FireFly (which, btw, this proposed HBO series almost sounds like--a western in space).
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While the likes of Sex and the City and Get Smart are moving to the big screen from the tube, George Lucas is doing the opposite with Star Wars. The director apparently has talked to HBO about a new live action SW drama described as "Deadwood meets The Sopranos in outer space." Said to be a dark drama with adult themes, it would not include any of the well-known characters from the Star Wars universe (yes, good news for all you Hayden Christensen haters out there) and would be set in the time between Revenge of the Sith and the action of the first (now fourth) Star Wars flick. The drama would launch after The Clone Wars, the animated, kid-friendly series that will debut as a full-length movie on Aug. 15 and then move on to a weekly episode format on the Cartoon Network.
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