Zack Snyder Directing "Star Wars" Spin-Off?

So Zack Snyder may not be getting the chance to direct the newly announced "Star Wars-Episode VII", but he may though be getting the chance to direct a new live-action spin-off film instead. Sources are saying that Snyder is in talks with Disney/LucasFilm to direct a spin-off based on the classic "Seven Samurai" film. "Seven Samurai" is a Japanese film which was made back in the 1950's, which was eventually remade in the US and was named "The Magnificent Seven", which is also getting a remake by MGM and starring Tom Cruise. That remakes years off from even having a script so we'll see how that pans out first. This though does seem pretty positive. Snyder has also been seen dinning with Disney execs and Kathleen Kennedy. Maybe he IS directing "Episode VII", but really I thin this'll be more his thing. Don't ask why though.
Some other sources are saying that it could be a "Forces Unleashed" type film spin-off with some "Seven Samurai" goodness added to it too. Either way I'm just happy that this guy could be onboard to be quite honest. I thought "Watchmen" was amazing and "Man Of Steel" looks breathtaking and has already had positive reactions to the footage. This could work well for him!

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,”