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STAR WARS ON THE TELLY, MAYBE

George Lucas: Full of it

Leia: surprise call-up

Star Wars - the new era: Totally Original

Lucas meets writers for new Star Wars TV series

The Orion Bag can confirm that it knows as much as anyone else as to whether funny-chinned movie-genius-turned-turkey-producer George Lucas is planning to get started on a live-action TV series based in the Star Wars universe.

A New Hope

The old-enough-to-know-better sci-fi-watching community is rife with rumour about the fact that Lucas is meeting with writers to discuss his ideas for the show.

In a combination of cunning journalistic flair and blind luck, Bag investodroid Gak 2.0 bumped into Lucas as he chowed down on a 3-piece Variety Meal at KFC in Shepherds Bush.

Bob Hope

"I've been accused of being washed-up and having no exciting ideas - but you won't believe what we're cooking up down at Lucasfilm!".

As he stirred his bbq beans with a plastic forky-spoon, he excitedly described his new ideas for the series:

"OK, so first, the imperial forces have destroyed a race's home planet and only one battleship survives. They race across the universe, in outdated technology, evading imperial fighters and battleships at every turn. Cool - huh?"

He looked quite crestfallen when he was told that perhaps that one was taken.

"Erm, ok then, how about - the myth of the force has been long since lost. On a far away world, ruled by the dark forces of the Empire and Darth Vader, lone individuals discover they have special powers and their lives inevitably intertwine..."

We were quite surprised by his reaction when we showed him the pilot of Heroes.

"Fine! Fine! Genius has no bounds" he said, spitting out a mouthful of zinger, "how about, in a bid to escape the evil empire, Leia, Han and Luke quest across the universe after finding a strange huge droning monolith tablet hoping to find the answer to the reasons of existence".