Comments on: Star Wars Live Action TV Series Coming Soon

By: BamKazaam

BamKazaam — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:50:37 +0000

oh the comic books ic lol.

Its interesting what you say about Farscape, and i agree. Farscape is one hell of a sci-fi series, im still hoping that they’ll continue after Peacekeeper Wars. i mean theres still tons of story to be told there :) i know theres a comic book on that, but nothing beats tv series imo lol.

lets hope with the Star Wars tv series coming, it will rekindle all the other great sci-fi tv series again ;)
well more like bring back Firefly and Farscape!! lol

By: Iknewthiswouldhappen

Iknewthiswouldhappen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:34:52 +0000

really this is all that there is left, what happens in-between the major stories. whether it is in film, novel, graphic novel, animated series, radio series or whatever, but I think this only applies to the main character. There are still hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of stories that can still be told in the star wars universe.

By: Iknewthiswouldhappen

Iknewthiswouldhappen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:30:22 +0000

do you know that the authors who write new star wars novels, or the writers/artists over at dark horse who put out the star wars comics/graphic novels, have to run their ideas by George Lucas? could it be because it’s his, not theirs. I’m not talking about legal reasons or any B.S like that, because obviously they bought the rights to put those books out, but Star Wars is George Lucas’s, and he has to okay the stories they do, so that it fits into “his IDEA” of what star wars is.

By: PREVIEWFILMS.NET

PREVIEWFILMS.NET — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:29:04 +0000

questions from my nerd friend:

1. Will we see one of the last Jedi’s QuinLin Vos?
2. Will we see Prince Xizor and Guri his trusty sidekick?
3. Will my friend ever get laid

By: Anti-Septic

Anti-Septic — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:24:50 +0000

Hmmmm.
I am just going on Stars Wars comic books I have read in regards to my comments. If anything Firefly was loosely based off of Star Wars, at least thats my opinion.

Regarding Farscape, thats another story altogether and it was far superior to any Sci Fi series I have ever seen to date. If the new Star Wars series were to have that feel, I would be delighted of course.

By: BamKazaam

BamKazaam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:14:18 +0000

Hehee T-Vo thats very hopefull of ya! but yeah i agree too, lets hope it happens :p

By: BamKazaam

BamKazaam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:10:25 +0000

dude why would Star Wars resemble Firefly series and have western feel? i dont understand what you mean by that. Star Wars is Star Wars it doesnt resemble anything else, if anything, it should be the other way around as far as influence goes. i think in comparison, Farscape fits better in terms of the premise at hand and from this early rumour about Star War TV series (they could change it for all we know). :)

By: Mladen

Mladen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:47:19 +0000

Seriously, the fast-food clerk doesn’t really compare to the role of a production designer. Besides the fact that we’re talking two completely different forms of consumer consumption here, with completely different laws regarding ownership, and it completely ignores the concept of ‘art’ in film… There can be ‘art’ in food, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say there is no ‘art’ in McDonalds food.

Look at another medium of collaborative production: comics/graphic novels. The intellectual rights belong to both the artist and writer, regardless of the fact that the writer came up with the story. The art is recognised as equal part of the final product. The story on its own is not a final product. I view film the same way.

(Its worth clarifying here: I have no issue with the prequels/spinoffs besides that I did not enjoy them, my main issue is regarding the Special Editions of the original trilogy. Lucas correctly owns the rights to the overall STORY, and can choose to REFILM it or create sequels if he wishes.)

Its ridiculous to say that because its a job, the artists retain no intellectual property of the product. A patron can engage an artist to paint a portrait of them. The portrait legally belongs to the patron, but the intellectual property remains with the artist. Its no different if a producer engages an artist to create concept art based on a story , or a script-writer to create a script from a story outline. Legal ownership of the product remains with the producer, but Intellectual property is split between the creators.

Legally he can do whatever he wants with the films, since as you said, those people are technically his employees. He can’t take their names off the credits however, until he changes enough of the film that their part in it no longer exists. But should he? When we’re talking about art it becomes tricky. Referring back to my earlier example: a patron may then decide to engage another artist to alter that painting… Its his legal right, sure. But does that make it morally acceptable?… Depends who you ask I guess.

Does the patron owe the artist anything? No. But is it the morally ‘right’ thing to do? Knowing that my answer is totally subjective, I say no.

By: eddie

eddie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:16:05 +0000

they should create the darth bane into a series, those are the best books out there

By: Anti-Septic

Anti-Septic — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:17:40 +0000

This could be very good, this will actually resemble the Firefly series, or at least it should if they do it right. It should have that western feel with the blasters and the ships and outposts.

Lets hope Lucas has the vision to make this happen.