Disney Have Bought LucasFilm For Over $4 Billion!

This is probably the most craziest news ever!!!!! Disney now not only own Marvel, but now they have bought LucasFilm for an expensive $4.5 billion. They now own all rights to all past and future "Star Wars" films and anything to do with the franchise, including the planned live-action TV show. Robert A Iger, who is the Chairman And Cheif Exec Officer Of The Walt Disney Company has confirmed that Disney have made plans for a "Star Wars-Episode 7" and it's set to be released in 2015. The 7th film will now go up against the "Justice League" film and "The Avengers 2".
Iger confirmed that producer Kathleen Kennedy will stay on as the Producer for Episode 7 and future installments and George Lucas will only have the role as Creative Consultant. This is what Iger said about Kennedy and Lucas's roles, It's also been mentioned that Disney plan to release a new "Star Wars" film every two to three years after the 7th film in 2015. There's rumors that original Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, will be returning for some sort of "passing of the torch" type of scene.

"Ms. Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films, with George Lucas serving as creative consultant. Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future."

It's also been mentioned that Disney plan to release a new "Star Wars" film every two to three years after the 7th film in 2015. There's rumors that original Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill, will be returning for some sort of "passing of the torch" type of scene. 
I for one am really super excited about the new films and I just hope they turn out well and Disney doesn't cock up. I also just hope they don't make CGI animated films and make them live-action instead. 

Also, what some people haven't realised is that Disney now own the rights to the "Indiana Jones" franchise too, so we could be seeing a fifth one of them after all and ASAP too. I just hope they don't reboot and start all over with someone like Zac Efron taking the lead. They now have that choice to do that. 

He Just Keeps Babbling On.........

This is seriously wearing thin now. "Star Wars" producer, Rick McCallum is still babbling on about this yet to be seen planned "Star Wars" live-action TV show. He's said that even though the franchise's creator, George Lucas, has plans to retire soon and pass LucasFilm over to producer and close friend, Kathleen Kennedy, this TV show is going happen one day. For now he continues to talk about what we, the fans, are to expect to see in it.
According to McCallum now, the series is will be "Deadwood in space".............so basically "Firefly" with "Star Wars" characters. That's basically it in a nut shell. Here's all of the stuff he's saying about it, "Our biggest problem is that these stories are adult. I mean…these are like Deadwood in space. It so unlike anything you’ve ever associated with George before in relation to Star Wars. These aren’t for kids. I mean, we hope they’ll watch, but it’s not being targeted at 8-to-9 year old boys. The situation we have is that each episode – or if you put two hour long episodes together – is bigger than any film we’ve ever done. It’s on the Avatar level and we’ll only have about $5-6 million we can spend on each episode."
So what he's saying is "Star Wars: R-Rated" then?! If they really are going with the whole "Deadwood in space", then that means gritty themes with slightly brutal violence. Oh, and mega amounts of swearing. The swearing could be fun. Would love to just see Darth Vader say "Fuck Off!" to some we Jedi. 
Oh, and the title is now rumored to be changed from "Star Wars: Underworld" to "Star Wars: Detours". Please, please, please keep it to "Underworld" because "Detours" just sound stupid.

Rick McCullum Discusses Live-Action "Star Wars" TV Series!

More information has come out about the still very possible "Star Wars" live-action TV series. The franchise producer, Rick McCullum has spoken out about it and stated that about 50 scripts have been wrote but at this moment...........they ain't progressing. The series ain't progressing, yet McCullum announced that himself and George Lucas have came up with a potential title for the series. The show is said to be going under the working title of "Star Wars: Underworld".
McCullum is still not convinced that the series will happen, but they have just made up a new title for it, so they must be doing something about it. Just make it into a comic-book series or new cartoons. McCullum said the BIG problem is the costs for each episode of the series. They cost too much for just an episode.
Hopefully one day we'll get to see this live-action TV show of the epic sci-fi franchise.

Where's This "Star Wars" Live-Action TV Series?

Now I'm sure the so-called "Star Wars" live-action TV show was meant to be on TV like a way back in 2009 or something. So where is it then? The franchises producer, Rick McCallum spoke out about the status of the "kinda not happening" TV series.

Where they're shooting:

 “Oh, absolutely. This would be one of the primary places because of the talent."

When we might finally see the show on TV:

“The TV series is on hold, but that has nothing to do with the Czech Republic; it has to do with [the episodes being] so ambitious,” McCallum told Czech Position. “We have 50 hours of third-draft scripts, but the problem we have is there is a lot of digital animation; we don’t have the technology yet to be able to do them at a price that is safe for television. Since we would be financing them, it would be suicide for us to do this [now]. So we are going to wait three or four years,"

The plot of the show and it's possible characters:

McCallum did reveal some of the basic storyline in the finished scripts. “It takes place between episodes three and four, when Luke Skywalker was growing up as a teenager, but it has nothing to do with Luke,” he said, adding that there is no young Luke Skywalker in any of the episodes. Episode three, “Revenge of the Sith” covers the time up until Luke’s birth. Episode four — the original “Star Wars” released in 1977, later called “A New Hope”— finds Luke at the start of his involvement with the Rebel Alliance.

“Basically, it is like ‘The Godfather’; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s [about] a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution,”