sfx.co.uk has a book review up of Doctor Who - The Writer's Tale. The book is about Russel T. Davies, the writer and major creative force behind the new Doctor Who series. In it, he discusses a bunch of stuff about being a writer, his work on Doctor Who, and a bunch of other stuff.
However, one sentence really caught my eye, and it made me sad. It was this sentence right here:
Davies was asked to meet with George Lucas to discuss writing for the Star Wars TV series - he decided to decline.
The TV series they are discussing there isn't the Clone Wars animated series, it's the live action Star Wars TV series that comes out in 2010 or 2011. Now there are two ways to really view this bit of news. One is to be very very sad that Davies declined to write for the show. This sadness stems from knowing that having him on the show would have made it a lot better than it would be without him. His ability at writing great and entertaining scifi is nigh untouchable. His decision not to take part in the show is very depressing because I would have loved to see what he written for it.
The other way to see this news is with hope. Lucas asking Davies means that he's probably going around asking a bunch of other people to write for the show too. And if he's talking to famous scifi writers like Davies, then I'm really curious who else he's talking to. The implications here are that Lucas himself will not be writing the series and will be passing the reigns of the show to very talented scifi writers.
This gives me a lot of hope that the live action Star Wars might actually be really good.
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