Rick McCallum, producer of three Star Wars movies and who's also the producer of what will be the new one hour live action Star Wars TV drama (the animated Star Wars The Clone Wars is currently on The Cartoon Network in its 3rd season) revealed some more very interesting details about what is planned for the show.
Last month Star Wars creator George Lucas shed some light on the as yet untitled TV project, saying that it's still too expensive to produce and that technology would have to catch up for the TV show to be and look like what he's envisioning. Now Rick McCallum who spoke to Czech Position, says the plan is that a big chunk of the TV show will be filmed in Prague since a lot of the Star Wars sets are there.
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''The TV show is on hold,'' Rick McCallum said to Czech Position, saying ''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.''
The new Star Wars TV show will be set in George Lucas' galaxy in the time period between the movies of Episodes III and Episode IV. ''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.''
