George Lucas Recruiting Writers for Star Wars TV Series

Posted on October 15, 2007

Entertainment Weekly reports that George Lucas is looking for freelance writers to help him toss around ideas and write the new Star Wars tv show. The show will be live action, not animated, and will surely be the most-watched television premiere of all time.

According to one agent familiar with the project, Lucas' plan is to recruit several freelancers - aka "writers of real significance" - to spend a week at the Skywalker Ranch in November to come up with story ideas for the series. The agent also said that Lucas has indicated a desire to hire writers from other countries. The scribes would then disperse and write the 13 episodes that would be produced and financed by Lucas.

When Lucas first began recruiting Hollywood writers for the project as early as February 2006, according to the agent, his original intent was to produce 26 episodes before he went on the lookout for a network partner. The news put fans in the frenzy as speculation swirled that the live-action series would take place between Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars IV: A New Hope, though the agent believes those rumors are unfounded. Plot points for the series, as a result, remain sketchy.

Talk to your agent: this is the hottest television project going on right now. And if you don't have an agent, well, you know what to do. Get to the library or bookstore and do your research on how to pitch and pitch really well.

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