In a recent interview, Rick McCallum - who produced the
Young Indiana Jones TV series and will produce the upcoming
Star Wars series - says that Prague, Czech is in the running for filming the show, as well as explaining why the show is currently on hold. He also gives the basic storyline, comparing it to
The Godfather, and also confirms plans of re-releasing a
Star Wars film in 3D every year, starting in February with
The Phantom Menace.
On the possibility of shooting in Prague... Oh, absolutely. This would be one of the primary places because of the talent.
On why the TV series is currently on hold... The TV series is on hold, but that has nothing to do with the Czech Republic; it has to do with [the episodes being] so ambitious. We have 50 hours of third-draft scripts, but the problem we have is there is a lot of digital animation; we don’t have the technology yet to be able to do them at a price that is safe for television. Since we would be financing them, it would be suicide for us to do this [now]. So we are going to wait three or four years.
On the basic storyline of the series... “It takes place between episodes three and four, when Luke Skywalker was growing up as a teenager, but it has nothing to do with Luke,” he said, adding that there is no young Luke Skywalker in any of the episodes.
“Basically, it is like The Godfather; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s [about] a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution,” McCallum said.
On plans of re-releasing the Star Wars films in 3D each year... We’re doing 3D versions of all six films, one a year, starting in February of next year. We start with [episode] one and go all the way through six, totally chronological,” he said. But the first one is a somewhat of a test. “One a year, if they work. If they don’t, then there will be just one [episode converted to 3D].
The currently untitled live action
Star Wars TV series is currently on hold, and it is unknown when it will start airing on the small screen.
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