"Star Wars" producer Rick McCallum talked with online press about the franchise and the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" DVD at a press event at Skywalker Ranch this week.
The Animated Series "The animation is being done right now as we speak, it's starting to prep. That's being done here at the Ranch. A lot of the effects will be done in Singapore. But that won't really start moving forward, I mean it's just now conceptual work and script work now. I think George is trying to get 13 scripts done first before we really get into the pipeline of it. But that'll start happening probably at the end of March" says McCallum.
The Live Action Series "The live-action television series is something we're planning for just at the beginning of 2007 and we're just starting to interview writers and trying to really figure out, you know, which direction... It is going to be much darker, much grittier, it's much more character-based. He envisions somewhere like 100 hours between 'Episode III' and 'Episode IV' with a lot of characters that we haven't met but have been developed in other novels and other things...
So, we're really excited about that because I think finally we can have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series. Principal photography will take place all around the world, probably with a base in Sydney. And, yes, we will be shooting in hi-def" says McCallum.
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Thanks to 'Mary'.
