Topic: Boba in the live action TV series..

Now, I am not sure if this is a rumors or if it is a fact... I heard from various sources that Daniel Logan was under contract to work in the new live action TV series that will be coming out in 2007. If he is, that means it is very likely that Boba Fett will be in it. Do you think he will be the star of it? Do you think it will increase or decrease your liking him?

I am not sure whether it will increase or decrease my liking him... There are many advantages and disadvantages of him being in it, and many more if he is starring in it. The main advantage is that we get to see more of our favorite bounty hunter. Hopefully Daniel will be able to play him right... He should probably read the bounty hunter wars trilogy to allow his mind to be poisined with that Fett effect. Other advantages are that there will be more merchadising, toys, games, hats, ect. There will also probably be more people who will make things like wallpapers and renders for him, and with all the images of Fett that will be in this, the possibilities for Fett avatars are endless. The Boba Fett Fan Club will gain popularity with the thousands of new Fett fans.
But with all these upsides there is one major downside. If Boba stars in it, Fett fans will lose a lot. They will lose their uniquity among Star Wars fans. If Boba is the star, he will be too cool to resist for any Star Wars fan. Every Star Wars fan will be a Boba Fett fan, thus causing us to lose our speciality... There is a way to prevent this however. We could just title ourselves as the "Pre-TV Fett fans", but I am not sure how the others would take that...

So, what are your oppinions on this?

The last time I checked (months ago), George Lucas had said that he was thinking about putting Daniel in the TV show, but I don't know if he's actually contracted yet.  I like Daniel a lot (I think he was spot on in Ep. II) but I really hope he goes with the personality in the books, instead of just doing what the directors tell him.

And as for us Fetties...you're right on both points.  I hate to imagine people thinking we only like Fett because of some TV show, but then again, we'll have a ton of new members.  If the TV show is really bad, it might make all the fans that hate us start to sympathize with us, and then maybe they won't hate us so much anymore...?

I hate the idea of any and all future SW tv shows. SW is perfect how it is, it doesn't need some corny, cheesy, half-put-together, show with bad effects that doesn't make any sense to SW and is only there to show how "cool" the characters are without having any depth to them at all. I think if they're stupid enough to make a tv series SW will die. It might not seem that way at first but it will eventually. And it will be solely because of the tv series. Clone Wars made it, surprisingly, but it has so many continuety errors I don't know where to begin.

If they make a show about Boba it will be entirely to show off his "coolness" factor, make him into some "uber super villian" where all he does is run around killing people and making explosions and saying "witty" lines as he does it and then, of course, he'll need a friend or partner/sidekick cause you can't have a silent tv show so we need someone for Boba to explain things to so the younger audience will understand as well, and there'll be some dialogue. And there'll be no real reason for Boba to be friends with this person except for the sake of the show.

Besides. Take any classic book. Would you make a tv show about it? No, I wouldn't think so that would just ruin the classicalness of it. Same with SW. It's a classical movie. It's perfect on it's own without any interferance from tv. TV's gone pretty much to hell these days, what's to make us think that won't happen to SW?

It will be a cold day in hell when George picks up a Star Wars book.

I agree with most everything Miba said, in that making a live action show featuring Fett would butcher the character as we know him.  I'm just a little more worried that he will use Daniel Logan as a "villian" to whatever idiotic, probly Jedi heroes he stars. 
What I would like to see though, is a seperately produced anime 26-part series featuring Boba Fett's better hunts (somewhat like Cowboy Bebop.) As long as George doesn't get his fingers in it, I think the high-quality anime medium could depict Fett really well.
But that's just me....

I don't know much about anime. I did try to watch one of my brother's tapes once but I got a headache with the subtitles. I don't think I've seen a regular English one, except once a long time I ago on tv for a few minutes. So I don't know how that would work out. I'm still iffy about a tv show no matter if it's cartoon or live action, though I think a cartoon would work much better than liveaction. So if they absolutely must make a show, I hope it's cartoon/anime.

As long as they do it in the right format...
You see, there is a huge difference between the tv-show, episodic  mediocre-to-horrible cartoonime on TV constantly, and high-quality, 13-26 episode anime.  If George would opt for the first one...Star Wars would be destroyed forever.
But a Fett anime of 26 episodes about his best hunts, created by people who actually understand the way Boba is, and don't go crazy with their creative freedoms...that would be truly awesome.

Yeah, the subtitles were kind of annoying for me...I was watching Hellsing (another good 13-episode anime) with subtitles even though it was dubbed in English (I'm half deaf, I need subtitles).  Nothing the characters said matched up with the subtitles, as if they were completely different scripts...very fustrating to watch.
Still good stuff though.

I have always wished for a Star Wars TV show ever since I was young. I always felt that Star Wars just seemed to end when you watched the movies. With a TV show it can help you get in to it, and make it's popularity last more than 2 months... I do agree it would be difficult if it had no dialogue. Perhaps Boba will be in it, but as a side character instead of the star. Then the stars would be a bounty hunter team... Perhaps 4-lom and Zuckuss...

There's always the books, they explain much more than a tv show could, and have a much better story than one could and with books you don't have to worry that the cast and crew will totally mess everything up. And you don't have to make sure you're home at a certain time to watch it. And you don't have to have commercials.

Besides, look at all the previous tv messups: The Holiday Special. The Ewok Adventures (liveaction), Ewoks (cartoon), Droids (cartoon). Ewoks is decent. But Droids just makes you confused and doesn't really stick to canonity a whole lot. And The Ewok Adventures? Well the first episode was really bad, but the second was at least a bit better than the other. But I think they've more than proved that SW is not meant for tv. Clone Wars even, people think it's canon but it just messes up canon. It's faster to watch a show than it is to read a book and so people will assume the tv shows are canon when they're not and SW fans will be devided even more and more fights will break out and eventually we'll all be a bunch of nitpicking, pathetic group of people who used to be fans of something that was the greatest thing at the time but is now nothing more than something you watch when you want a laugh.

I only watch Clone Wars half the time. I really don't like the Genndy Tartovosky style. He just makes everything really ugly and deformed.

Yeah, I don't like how Anakin looks, or Mace, or a few other people either. Obi-Wan and Asajj looked ok, to me. Yoda was ok too, I think.

You could always Ask Daniel and see what he thinks, after the next batch of e-mails go out to him.

For the star wars show i see a kinda of stargate style of live action. Shown on Sky one about 8 at night on a weeknight (this will only makes sense to ppl in the u.k). I've heard that each episode is going to be about a different minor character. I would love to see a two parter for the first episode featuring Boba. But i can't see how they could do episode after episode about Boba with out changing the character. To me Boba is more of a comic and book charater, where his point of view is his internal monlouges rather than him interacting with others in a vocal way. And it would be nice to see minor characters from all 6 movies too.

As for the whole issue of other ppl becoming Boba fan's cus of the show, then the more the better. I'm not bothered who does or does not like boba fett or why. All that matters is i like and what character means to me.

I think that every few episodes should be about Fett, with plenty of cameo apperances. I also think that D'harhan and that Legionare droid should work with him.

Oh yes, there is an interesting thought... D'harhan could be in the episodes. That would be cool...

I'd probably feel better, too, if the show was an anime. I wouldn't want it to be an American cartoon because guess who'd get the job again? >.> I'd also prefer it better if it was done by the same people who made the manga's. But thats just me.

My husband turned me on to Animae. I first watched stuff that had dubbed English. Yes, I'm a heathen. If you ever get a chance, check out a film called "Riding Bean" (it's the precursor to The Transporter, with a vaguely Fett-esque guy with fast car for hire), a series called "appel seed" ( dark future, with a cop turned robot, and his fem fetale partner. Really well done, kind of Blade Runner feel to it), or a series called Ranma (this is a crazy series. A man and his son go on a Kung Fu quest against the wishes of his wife. They fall into these cursed pools: one turns the man into a giant panda, the other his son, into a girl)  THe man hides out at his best friend's dojo while they try to figure out how to reverse the curse. They change forms when hit with water. I can't even tell you how funny it is.  From your posts here, I think you'd get a kick out of it.  One of the beautiful daughters is this butt kicking karate girl who fights with Ranma.  There's this nutty kid who's obsessed with ancient sword fighting who's in love with 'the little red headed girl', what Ranma becomes when he's hit with water.

I agree with you on your cautious approach to Lucas and Television.  If he can make it dramatic on par with Battle Star Galactica, I think I can buy it.  The intervening years before ANH should be gritty.  If he goofs it up, or makes Fett a foil for the Jedi padawan of the week, I will be back to sticking pins in my Flanneled One Voodoo doll.

It is not a cartoon. It is a live action tv series.

I know that. I didn't say it was an anime. o_o

I don't think they're making a cartoon, I think I read some where that Lucas wants to make and animated Star Wars show that's kinda like Toy Story, that sort of animation.

As for the live action Star Wars show, I don't think Boba will have too major of a role that will end up ruining everything he stands for. It will probably focus on Luke and Leia growing up or something... or is the TV series supposed to take place during another time frame>?

Nobody ever said it was going to be a cartoon, just that a serious anime would be nice. 
By Toy Story, you probably mean Computer Generated Images animation, CGI.  That would be pretty expensive to do if he wanted anything with higher quality than the Adventures of Jimmy Neutron.
Might be counting on the millions of Star Wars fans who would watch it no matter how bad it is.

Luke and Leia's Childhood + TV Series = Disaster. To me anyway.

Ursula, you can find these in a regular rental place? Cause that last one sounds good.

I heard they would be doing a TV series of the Clone Wars in CGI as another thing on Cartoon Network. I am not sure when they would be showing it though...

I hated the animated Clone Wars thing. It was like 5 min. for each episode. In my opinion they were terrible!

But, a Boba Fett one (if done right) would be great, I would watch that anyday (of done right that is)

What I meant was, they will be making new 30 minute episodes of CGI clone wars, and then they will have another TV show being the Star Wars live action TV series.

BTW: There is an edit button, so you know. :)

This is slightly off topic but , I also thought George Lucas wanted to make 3-D versions of all the SW movies... is this true?
And also, when will production of this live action show begin, any ideas?

Yeah, I heard about the 3D versions, that's what he's working on. He's too smart to waste his time working on a tv series when he could be working on his 3D versions. As far as I know they'll come out sometime in the next few years.

As for production of the live action show? Well, considering I've been hearing rumors of it since the early 2000s, I don't really think there'll be a show. (and there was much rejoycing)

I've heard the 3D versions come out next year in time for the 30th anniversary. As for the show, I heard its supposed to come out after them. Or something like that.

Yaaaaaaaaay.

Full 3D versions?   That would take forever if they wanted it to look perfect.
At least they could make the slow lightsaber fights a little bit more...interesting.

Yeah, the 3D movies will be awesome. Especially RotS.

I heard the TV series would be coming out in 2007, so you can never be sure...

I'd rather see ESB in 3D. Can you imagine? Glorious 3D Boba pushing a 3D Han carbonite block....

I certaintly hope they take the time to recoreograph the Sarlacc scene to give Boba a little more...respectability.
And I would love to see a CGI rancor...one that moves faster than an old guy with arthiritis.

Lol, yeah, those would be some nice updates.

On another note, do you (you as in anyone veiwing this post) think they will be releasing these 3D versions on DVD?

...what else would they release it on besides DVD and PSP?

VHS is hideously obsolete.  DVDs can carry higher quality images anyway...

I just assumed they would show the 3D versions in theaters...

In theatres?   Hmmm.....
Really not sure about that, but they most likely would show them in theatres, as releasing them straight-to-video would not be a profitably wise thing to do if they put a lot of money into making them...And a theatre release (if some content aspects related to technological limitations of the day were modified to improve the overall movie) would almost definetely get all the Star Wars fans back in the theaters and make a few hundred million for George.

Oh, alright... I was thinking I wouldn't seen 3D SW until I had kids, lol! You know, George Lucas still has a lot more plans for Star Wars and well, he isn't exactly in his prime anymore... what if he ends up dieing before the TV series is made? I wonder if they would still go through with it... Not that I want him to drop dead or anything! I'm not that kind of person.

He's not that old.  I figure he's got at fifteen years tops...fifteen years before I can take over and RULE HIS WRETCHED EMPIRE!
And even if he died, they'd still go through with a TV series, depending on how long they'd worked on it.  Or they might just do it without him, what does he know about Star Wars anyway?

I, for one, am looking forward to a Star Wars TV series. Sure, Lucas is likely to butcher Fett if indeed he's in there at all, but there's always the off-chance he'll get it right. And even if he doesn't, Boba Fett is something that cannot be ruined.

Let's face it: at least half of us are Fett fans not because we're enamored of his (lack of?) good looks, or because 'his armor owns, man!' but because we see something in him we either identify with or value. True, the fact that he's a Mandalorian and a bounty hunter is cool, but would it be so cool if he was a womanzing pig who cared for nothing but credits and what it could buy him? I think not. He's an embodiment of many values that our own world seems to have lost: honor, justice, duty, loyalty... without these, Boba Fett would be another face in the very large Star Wars crowd. Think about it: there's no Lando Calrissian fanclub. Wonder why?

So Lucas can -try- to ruin Fett. He's botched him enough as it is, but has that deterred us? No. Because he is still the same, regardless of what dumb stories he's written into. If we don't like what we see, we'll write fanfics and make fanfilms to portray him the way he should be. Boba's virtues still stand, and the grim and bitter visage that balances them out does too. As long as those remain, so will the bounty hunter we know and love. This is why even George Lucas can't kill Boba Fett.

Wow, I didn't know I had that in me...

that would be a good show

http://www.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=1228128 :P

Exactly, you have a good point. Our Boba Fettish cannot be taken away! As you said, when Episode II came out we stayed fans. It just allowed people to beleive what they want to beleive. The more different Fett versions there are, the more a mystery he will become and the more people who will like him.

The more versions and veirities, the more we'll be devided, the more devided we are the more fights that'll break out. Fights will cause different SW groups to break off and become their own little groups and they'll all interfight and soon we'll be broken down and defeated.

It really just depends on the people. If people are smart, they will let people beleive what they want to beleive. If they don't, then they just prove their own stupidity. Of course, as you say, it will happen. There are too many stupid people out there... But there is nothing we can do to prevent this TV series from coming out, so we can just hope for the best. :)

Sonofabantha!! I SEARCHED just to make sure that statement was true!!! -_-;;

Yeah, we're likely to end up the same way the Guild did... but once again, only the stupid people will get their panties in a knot about it. No matter who he is or where he comes from the real fans are going to realize that he is the same person.

And if it becomes too much of a problem, Aaron can just make a rule against it.

A rule against what?  Debate?
I think arguing and factionizing are fun...remember, the Bounty Hunters Guild was corrupt, decaying, its hunters ineffective because they never competed for anything.  The subsequent factionizing brought on by Fett's arrival fixed that up, and got the hunters doing their job properly and effectively.
Not the same situation...but it's more fun when not everyone agrees about something...unless things get ugly, which yeah, we would need to crack down on flaming and such.

No, not debate. Certain debates that have been done before and caused flame wars. I do agree that debates can be fun, but when you have participated in the same debate 5 times and they always end up in a flame war, either people need banning or new rules need to be made to prevent it.

And when I say rules against it, I simply mean rules against a certain type of debate: the debate(s) causing the problem. For example, on many sites "Who will you vote for" topics during the presidential elections tend to get vicious, and I have seen sites make rules against that. Also topics like, "Creation vs Evolution".

Check out what I found!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_live-action_TV_series

I see... I don't know why I didn't think to look on wiki. >_< According to that, Daniel will be in it, and will be playing Fett... Very interesting...

I don't trust Wiki. Not just because of this, but because I've never trusted them.