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A “Star Wars” TV show is being developed by ABC! Call the neighbors, alert friends and family, tell your job you’ll soon require time off!
Or don’t. Because if you’re a true fan of the galaxy far, far away, your heart has undoubtedly been broken time and time again by promises of live-action Lucasfilm adventures. True, this promise by ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey that she would “love to say yes” to a series is slightly different because now Disney and behind-the-scenes talents like JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson could be involved rather than George Lucas — but as philosopher George Santayana once famously remarked: “Those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it.”
With that in mind, let’s look back on the long, sad history of “Star Wars” on the small screen — and five reasons to be very afraid as we tiptoe over the Aunt Beru-like charred ruins of Lucasfilm mistakes.
It could be a show about Wookies
We won’t go over the head-scratching, well-documented history of 1978’s “Star Wars Holiday Special” here, but what we will focus on is the worst part of the worst thing to ever come out of the “Star Wars” universe (sorry, Jar-Jar). We’re speaking, of course, about the brutally-difficult-to-watch part of the show that focused on Chewbacca’s non-verbal family.
Hold on, you might say, no one working on the new Star Wars TV show would be crazy enough to let minutes upon minutes of airtime be devoted to men in walking fur carpets roaring and pointing at each other incomprehensibly. Well, once upon a time, somebody thought it was a good idea.
It could be ‘The Godfather’ in space
That was the pitch for 2005’s “Star Wars: Underworld” — well, actually it was “The Godfather” meets “Deadwood” in space, which sounds even more confused. The announcement of the show, which was to be set between “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope,” garnered a lot of media attention (much like this latest ABC news).
But as fans eagerly anticipated the one-hour show to be produced by George Lucas, which intended to teach us Corsucant was as much a “hive for scum and villainy” as Mos Eisley, a funny thing happened. Fifty scripts were written, and then somebody realized that the cost of producing the show was more than Han Solo could raise with a hundred rebel missions. Not a single episode ever aired.
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