Live Action Star Wars TV Show

For a while there have been rumors of a TV series of Star Wars that will run on network television. It seemed that the show might never take off, but at a recent DragonCon, Steve Sansweet, a LucasFilm executive, gave a few details that the Star Wars show is still in the making with writing taking place. According to Sansweet, production should begin in 2010 with the first season airing in 2012.

Obviously, for Star Wars fans everywhere, the thought of a TV show is incredible. It will be interesting though to see how it plays out. It would be a little awkward at first if Luke, Leia, and Han were still in the story because the thought of anyone other than Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford playing these characters would be a little hard to handle. It's for that reason that George Lucas announced that the show would not be centered around the Skywalkers or characters from the films.(E! Online.com) I think this is a smart move and also opens up the possibility for great characters and story lines from the multitude of Star Wars books to get their shot on the screen.

But even though it Star Wars wouldn't be the same without Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford, I would still love to see another Star Wars trilogy based on the Grand Admiral Thrawn books! That would be sweet! Thrawn would be an amazing villain not to mention getting to see his elite bodyguards, the Noghri, in action! (By the way, the Thrawn trilogy books are: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command by Timothy Zahn)