Just was posted on TFN, : The AP has an interesting interview with George Lucas online. Here's a highlight:
AP: After "Episode III," will you ever revisit "Star Wars"?
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
Sounds like fun! Thanks to 'ShadowMaker' for the alert!
So all of you worried about the show taking place between EPIII and EPIV looks like it won't happen, and it seems like Lucas really wants to make it a good tv series, in other words not the past 10 years of Star Trek.
he may be critical, i pointed that out when i said if he LIKES the pitch it will be made. but like the comics and books, he approves plots, he doesn't come up with them. i've noticed some some plots do come from unused characters, some of his notes on the films and their characters that just don't get used on film, and some books/comics have been used to flesh out characters further, like Darth Bane in Dark Horse's Jedi vs. Sith or Jango Fett in Open Seasons. But from the interview, it sounds like if someone comes up with a good idea, and he likes it, it will get made. As apposed to Young Indiana Jones, where (I heard) he was more directly involved. It sounds like he doesn't really want direct involvement other than plot approvals. In another interview I read, I think with MTV, he said he was looking forward to doing more indepedant films like THX that would be wierder than his usual stuff, and he said then people can either like it or not like it.
From TF.Net:
AP: After "Episode III," will you ever revisit "Star Wars"?
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.