Ever since it was announced last month that G4's Attack of the Show was going to broadcast Lucasfilm's presentation at Comic Con, some niggling little voice in my head wondered, "Why?" Surely G4's audience wouldn't be any less interested in panels and presentations on everything from other genre films to t.v. shows to video games. It's not likely to have the big Hollywood stars you see at other panels. Why the SW one? And moreover, why is Lucasfilm going to put it on t.v. this year? The year to put it on the air like that was in 2004, the two-hour extravaganza that featured surprise appearances by Carrie Fisher, Rick McCallum, and Hayden Christensen, that featured news about the upcoming DVD release of Eps IV-VI, and that of course for the first time revealed the title of Episode III.
This year's presentation is certainly a bit more jazzed up than previous years', but it still doesn't answer for me why this is going to be a big deal to anyone not named "lazypadawan" or anyone who doesn't slavishly read this LiveJournal. Others have wondered as well. Could it be there will be biiiig news of some sort, that while it won't be on the footing of 2004, will get a lot of attention? Well, let's see...
One thing that's entirely possible is news about Celebration V. But that in itself wouldn't warrant a t.v. broadcast.
What about this second animated series George Lucas mentioned a couple of months ago in Chicago? In last week's Forcecast on TFN, it mentioned the rumor mill says this show will be based on Hasbro's popular Galactic Heroes line. "Star Wars Babies?"
Could it be news on a cast and a start date for shooting the live action series? It's entirely possible. News has already leaked out about writers being hired and Rose Byrne recently blabbed about Australian actors tossing their hats into the ring for casting. If there is an announcement, it would be HUGE. This is what fanboy nation has been waiting for since 2005.
How about news on all six SW films coming out on Blu-Ray? The CW movie is already on Blu-Ray and I believe the Season One set will also be available on Blu-Ray (by the way, I definitely expect news on when the CW Season One set will be released and the date when Season Two will start to air). The next logical step is putting all of the movies on Blu-Ray.
There could also be an announcement that at long last, the SW movies will be available for digital download through venues like iTunes. Again, the CW movie and the show itself are already on iTunes. The movies have to be next.
I'm sure there will be announcements on other video games from the Lucas Arts stable, but we already know the Knights of the Old Republic mutli-player online game is the marquee game for 2009.
What's unlikely IMO? An announcement on a 3D digital re-release of the Saga. Disney has been very succesful with 3D so far, but I kinda think they're going to wait for more digital theaters and for a time when there's demand to see the Saga in theaters again. I think they're also going to wait to see how a live action 3D flick like Avatar does. We can also write off an announcement that there's going to be an Episode VII or another Indiana Jones on track.
So that's that. My money is on the live action show being the big surprise buzz catcher. We'll see in two weeks' time!
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