Rick McCallum revealed some new details about the Star Wars TV series to Dutch website Tosche Station.

Before discussing Star Wars, McCallum reveals that they have created 94 documentaries to go along with the release of the “Young Indiana Jones” series which should be hitting DVD by the end of this year.

Expect more news about the Star Wars television series to creep out throughout the next year, with no casting or directing information until sometime in 2008.

Will “Young Indiana Jones” be used as a blueprint for the upcoming live action Star Wars television series?

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.

Could you tell us something about the status of the Star Wars television series? Something about the actors maybe?

I can’t tell you anything about actors because we’re not there yet. This is a long process to get it right. First of all: where are we going to shoot? Then: who’s going to write? And finally: who’s going to direct? George has been working for the last seven, eight months on the story arc line of where the series goes. The dream is to do way over one hundred hours of it. If we can get it right, we have some fantastic characters that nobody has ever met before and start a whole other world of Star Wars that comes out every week instead of every three years.

Will any of the older characters appear in the series?

It’s a whole different group of characters.

When do you expect the first episode will be televised?

That’s tough. The TV world is changing a lot. Hopefully we will have finished the first episode by the end of 2008, so that in 2009 it can come out.

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