Money no object...
Apr. 25th, 2011 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astri13You know, I got together with a few old friends again and one told me how her nine year old son is very much into Star Wars at the moment, mostly courtesy of the Clone Wars series. And another friend told me her boss kids are crazy about it as well. Who knew? I had no idea it was popular with kids these days.
Anyway, it got me thinking on the real life TV show that Lucas announced ages ago so I invoked some google-fu and learned that it's in a state of "no idea if we're gonna make this" state right now. Scripts are there, production is on ice. The reason? Lucas said he'd need 50 Million bucks per episode!
Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me? What kind of show does need fifty million bucks per episode to make? That's outrageous. Now I'm thinking the guy knows SQUAT about TV shows and he needs to get of his CGI kink, stat. Since that would obviously be the cost factor.
I mean, in the Stargate shows or BSG or any other Sci-Fi shows, I thought they had some damn good space battle scenes. And they obviously managed them on their meager budgets. So again, how can you get to costs of 50 million per! episode!? What do you plan to cgi there? Air? Bread? I...I was kinda speechless reading that.
Anyway, it got me thinking on the real life TV show that Lucas announced ages ago so I invoked some google-fu and learned that it's in a state of "no idea if we're gonna make this" state right now. Scripts are there, production is on ice. The reason? Lucas said he'd need 50 Million bucks per episode!
Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me? What kind of show does need fifty million bucks per episode to make? That's outrageous. Now I'm thinking the guy knows SQUAT about TV shows and he needs to get of his CGI kink, stat. Since that would obviously be the cost factor.
I mean, in the Stargate shows or BSG or any other Sci-Fi shows, I thought they had some damn good space battle scenes. And they obviously managed them on their meager budgets. So again, how can you get to costs of 50 million per! episode!? What do you plan to cgi there? Air? Bread? I...I was kinda speechless reading that.
