'Star Wars' TV Series Considered For ABC Lineup

A Star Wars live-action series could soon be coming to the small screen now that Disney's recent purchase of Lucasfilm has been completed. Paul Lee, ABC's entertainment president, is eager to push forward the idea of a Star Wars live-action TV series that has long been on the back burner.

"We'd love to do something with Lucasfilm, we're not sure what yet," Lee told Entertainment Weekly. "We haven't even sat down with them. We're going to look at [the live-action series], we're going to look at all of them, and see what's right. We weren't able to discuss this with them until [the acquisition] closed and it just closed. It's definitely going to be part of the conversation."

With a prospective budget of $5 million dollars, there's no wonder the idea for a Star Wars live-action series has been shelved for years. However, with the recent success of the expensive Game of Thrones HBO series, now might be the right time to kickstart development. "It's going to be very much up to the Lucasfilm brands how they want to play it," Lee told EW. "We got to a point here with Marvel, a very special point, where we're in the Marvel universe, and very relevantly so, but we're not doing The Avengers. But S.H.I.E.L.D. is part of The Avengers. So maybe something oblique is the way to [approach the Star Wars universe] rather than going straight head-on at it."

The series would reportedly focus on "rival families struggling over the control of the seedy underside of the Star Wars universe and the people who live within the subterranean level and air shafts of the metropolis planet Coruscant," according to CNN sources. The plot for the potential series sounds much like the upcoming Star Wars video game 1313. It's been suggested that story materials and designs for the game were developed from the original plans for the Star Wars live-action series.