Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ Television Series May Be Coming To ABC

The last time that there was word about a live-action Star Wars television series it was said that there was plenty of material for the series, but the issue was the cost. It now appears that ABC (a Disney subsidiary) is taking another look, with the network’s president Paul Lee trying to work out the best route to bring a Star Wars series to television.

“We’re going to look at [the live-action series], we’re going to look at all of them, and see what’s right”.

 

Apparently the live-action series centers on the story of rival families who are struggling over the control of the seedy underside of the Star Wars universe. The series will take place withing the subterranean level and air shafts of the metropolis planet Coruscant. Quite similar to the story of the upcoming Star Wars videogame 1313.

We may see a bounty hunter as the main character of the series set in a time period that would allow the potential appearances from classic characters from the Star Wars universe. However, don’t get your hopes up yet because the new live-action films may see the series continue to sit on the backburner for awhile longer. Lee makes no guarantees of the series going forward on ABC and says it would be tricky to juggle a television show and a feature film franchise set within the same universe.

“It’s going to be very much up to the Lucasfilm brands how they want to play it. We got to a point here with Marvel, a very special point, where we’re in the Marvel universe, and very relevantly so, but we’re not doing The Avengers. But S.H.I.E.L.D. is part of The Avengers. So maybe something oblique is the way to [approach the Star Wars universe] rather than going straight head-on at it.”

 

Could they be waiting to see how Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D. series works before moving forward?

Source: EW