No more Star Wars?

It
was the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the STAR WARS franchise
a few days ago, and the rumors were rampant about a possible “2
more movies” being announced. The good folks at Movieweb got to
the bottom of it all though, and as it turns out, there will be 2
more additions to the Lucas franchise, but both will be shown on TV,
and according to head of Lucas Fan Film Relations: “There
are going to be two more Star Wars television series. One of them is
well into production. That is “Star Wars: Clone Wars”.
It’s a CG animated show, which we suspect will be on the air
sometime next year. And then George and Rick McCullen were just now
starting work on a live action series. A drama. That will probably
be coming out in 2009 or 2010. He is actively at work on both of
those. But the CG animated series is more adult. It has a lot of
humor in it. It is very cinematic. We will be talking about that for
the first time at the celebration.”

Despite my own
distain for Lucas’ sales practices, I’m like most of you (see our
most recent STAR WARS poll HERE)
in that I would actually LOVE to see more STAR WARS movies,
particularly if we can get more creative and passionate people
involved (yeah, let Lucas take a back-seat next time). You can read
the rest of their interview HERE.