From IESB, I like Rick McCallum, he’s funny, has an extremely foul mouth and loves to talk to the press and fanboys alike. He recent gave updates on the Star Wars live action TV series and mentioned that he is hopeful for Young Indy to be on DVD by X-Mas ’07.The boys over at Tosche Station recently met up with Rick and spoke to him about the Young Indiana Jones DVD’s and a bit on the live action Star Wars TV series.
Here are some of the highlights from Tosche Station.
Here are some of the highlights from Tosche Station.
Q: You mentioned ”Young Indiana Jones”. When will it finally be released on DVD?
RM: We are hoping that the first set will be released just before Christmas. I’m not sure about the date since Paramount is releasing it. Since Star Wars was finished one of the things we have been doing was making 94 documentaries which will be completed by the end of this month. (editors note: april 2007) These go with the TV series. There is a historical timeline that takes you trough the life of Young Indy and incredible documentaries about the people that he meets. That was a fun and fantastic experience.
Q: Will ”Young Indiana Jones” be used as a blueprint for the upcoming live action Star Wars television series?
RM: No, the Star Wars television series will be used as a blueprint for how we’re going to do our own films, the more personal movies George wants to make, how we’re going to use technology to make a movie for 10 or 15 million dollars with a lot of effects in it. Nowadays movies cost a lot of money and it doesn’t work. Movies are too expensive. It’s about how to change the perimeters of how do you set up the movie, how do you shoot it around the world, how do you make it look big in a more reasonable way. Most people forget that it takes three and a half, four years to make a Star Wars film. It’s long and that is why we are so excited to make the TV series because it’s much more character driven, you make a mistake one week and fix it the next week. You got this extraordinary story of twenty years between Episode III and IV while Luke is growing up that needs to be explored. So, we are looking forward to it. One of the things we are also looking forward to is finding a new group of talent to work with on feature films very much the same way as we did with Young Indy. Almost everyone that worked on Young Indy stayed with us for seventeen years or longer and some are still with us. Now we’re gonna start off with a new group, the next generation of filmmakers.
Q: And lastly, do you have a message for the fans who are reading this interview?
RM: I hope that Episode III brought peace to everyone and I cannot wait to show everybody the TV series because I think that its going to be much darker and much more character based its gonna go on forever and I think everybody is going to love it, if we can get it right and we crack it and don’t fuck it up it’ll be Fantastic.
2 comments:
Rick McCallum is "an unbearable tool," in my buddy Brendan's phrase after watching some Clones DVD documentary footage.
My favorite part is how he suggests that it's good that Star Wars or whatever is going to be "darker, more character driven," as if the lack of darkness or characters in the prequel had nothing to do with him and he wasn't standing next to Lucas on set constantly talking about how great each portion of Phantom Menace was.
Yes, I hope we "brought peace" unto you by making the third movie not totally suck most of the time.
Can you possibly suck up more than starting an interview "You mentioned 'Young Indiana Jones'. When will it finally be released on DVD?"
Would you like the complimentary box of chocolates with your plug lead-in?
Who really cares about the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles? Are they going to make a bunch of noise about the Droids cartoon after this?
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