Star Wars Live Action TV Show May Air On ABC

If a Star Wars Episode 7 movie wasn't enough reason for Star Wars fans to get excited, then here's one more reason. The long rumored Star Wars live-action TV series could actually become a reality now that Disney owns Lucasfilm. It seems that Disney also owns a certain TV network that appears to be very interested in the possibility. According to Entertainment Weekly, ABC entertainment president Paul Lee said, "We'd love to do something with Lucasfilm, we're not sure what yet. We haven't even sat down with them. We're going to look at [the live-action series], we're going to look at all of them, and see what's right. We weren't able to discuss this with them until [the acquisition] closed and it just closed. It's definitely going to be part of the conversation." The Star Wars TV series was initially started by Lucasfilm producer Rick McCallum. There have reportedly been fifty scripts written by such writers as Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore. Apparently, the main reason that the show stalled was that the $5 million budget per episode didn't make sense for a network to spend on a property that they did not own. With Disney owning both Lucasfilm and ABC now, the budgets make a lot more sense because Disney owns and would be building up the Star Wars franchise. However, Paul Lee added,"It's going to be very much up to the Lucasfilm brands how they want to play it. We got to a point here with Marvel, a very special point, where we're in the Marvel universe, and very relevantly so, but we're not doing The Avengers. But S.H.I.E.L.D. is part of The Avengers. So maybe something oblique is the way to [approach the Star Wars universe] rather than going straight head-on at it." EW quotes sources as saying the Star Wars TV series would revolve around "rival families struggling over the control of the seedy underside of the Star Wars universe and the people who live within the subterranean level and air shafts of the metropolis planet Coruscant (the Empire's urban-sprawl-covered home planet)." The main character would likely be a bounty hunter, and the time period for the film would be between the original Star Wars films and the prequels.