Kennedy: As I came into the company, John Knoll came into my office and said, "Can I talk to you a little bit about the idea that we might be doing other Star Wars movies, because there is something I've been thinking about for quite a while?" And it emanated from the opening crawl of A New Hope. Knoll: Star Wars is such a rich and complex universe, there's so many planets, characters, races and long a time span that you can tell these stories in, it's a wonderful playground that you can tell interesting stories in almost infinitely. And then we sat down and started writing some of them down. Some of them had always been in his head and were quite developed storylines. We started to have conversations about what some of those might be. When he and I first sat down to start talking about the fact he was ready to start making Star Wars movies again, one of the things he brought up right away was how he had been thinking about the possibility that there were so many stories that exist outside the Skywalker saga. Kathleen Kennedy (Producer): This all came from George. I didn't really return to it until after Kathy came on board and there was the announcement of the new slate of films, including these stand-alone stories. A day or two later I was chatting with Rick and I asked him about this live-action show and he told me about the era that it took place, and what the themes were and I realised that my idea had no place in his show, so I just dropped it entirely.
I started thinking, "what kind of fun stories could you tell in a live-action TV show?" and one of the thoughts I had was doing a sort of a Mission: Impossible-style break-in to the most secure facility of the Empire, to steal the Death Star plans.
It was summer, 2003, when we were shooting Episode III in Sydney and I'd heard George and Rick were developing a live-action Star Wars TV show. John Knoll (VFX Supervisor/Story): It started way, way back.
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