Star Wars Television Series

Film "That's not going to happen probably for another year and a half while we develop scripts and everything else. 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." -- Rick McCallum talking to Empire Magazine.

To repeat that ... "I think it?s going to be everything the fans always wanted the prequels to be." Cinematical is right. This is Rick admitting that the prequels might not have been enthusiastically received by everyone, especially the fans. The problem I always had with those films is that they didn't seem entirely sure which audience they were speaking to. Fans hate them because there's too much blah and not enough hah. Kids at the screenings I went to were bored during all the endless diplomacy scenes. In most places the films lack heart and anything close to geniune engagement with the audience. Is it too much to hope that these new scripts have been written by people like Manny Coto, Drew Goddard, Alexa Junge, David Fury or Byran Fuller?

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