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[ManaByte]

With Lucasfilm recently confirming a Star Wars TV series and Lucas himself mentioning bringing the saga to TV in a recent yahoo interview , there is growing speculation that J. Michael Straczynski may be the Executive Producer on the series.

Firstly a bit of history. Rumors of this TV series leaked out late last year/early this year. They gained steam, and some validity, in May/June of this year with more concrete details leaking out such as ILM hiring people for a major television project and some details on the setting of the series.

Around the same time, Straczynski was rumored to be in talks with Paramount to be in charge of a new Trek series. In June, Straczynski posted this and it has to do with a non-Trek project:

From JMSNews:

on 6/15/04 JMS says, "I've been offered an EP (Executive Producer) position on a network series, and while I don't usually do that on shows I don't create or develop, when I heard what this project was, I had to get on board. We still have to negotiate a deal, and work out how that will interface with the stuff that will be going on later in the year, but fortunately the start date should work out, at least at this point."

There is strong speculation that he was offered Star Wars because:

1. Babylon 5 showed he can do strong sci-fi stories on television.

2. Babylon 5 showed that he can work with a very small budget and produce strong special effects for television as well as a show that looks like it cost much more than it actually did.

If JMS is doing Star Wars, the series would be in very good hands.

 

[Saint Cornelius]

Babylon 5 showed that he needs someone to come in and kinda un-gay the dialogue.

I mean, I really loved Bab5 but man sometimes the things the characters said were atrocious. But that being said, I will be interested to see what JMS could do with the Star Wars franchise.

 

[SD-Ness]

I'd love it.

 

[DarthWoo]

Although I guess he wouldn't be doing much writing in the producer's position, B5 did show that he could write an entire (and most of the next) season of a show by himself and do a good job of it when he had to.

 

[aaaaa0]

JMS does rock (Babylon 5 kicked ass), but he really really needs a good dialogue editor.

Some of the dialogue in Babylon 5 was just cringe worthy.

 

[Bizarro Sun Yat-sen]

He wrote all of two years in a row in fact, 3 & 4. The series suffered in the last two years, especially in terms of the overall story, but I blame the uncertainty over cancellation at the end of year four.

 

[BuddyC]

Hot.

 

[Rorschach]

Funny how I now associate JMS with Spiderman.

 

[Datawhore]

This would be so rad, I'm almost shaking with pleasure.

If it trully does take place 20 years after EPIII, I can't wait to see Vader purge the Jedi as was described in the A New Hope novelization.

Every episode, Vader dispatches another hopeless Jedi Knight - that's enough to get me to tune in every week!

 

[B-B-Bomba!]

I think I'm going to be sick

*sits rocking gently on the floor, cradling 3 VHS cassettes and keening like a maternal wookiee*