George Lucas: Two new 'Star Wars' movies coming [UPDATE]

Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 7:13 PM Central

by John Couture

UPDATE: Unfortunately this bit of news has been proven false. See this post on Slash Film for more info.

From a galaxy far, far away comes news out of nowhere that George Lucas is planning two new live-action Star Wars movies. I could tell you what little I know or let the big man tell you himself.

"They won’t have members of the Skywalker family as characters. They will be other people of that milieu."

Leave it to Lucas use a big word such as milieu and to leave us with more questions than answer. The force is very strong with this one.

We do know that these movies will run approximately one hour in length each and be intended to debut on TV. Of course, these things have a way of changing and what company would rather debut a new Star Wars for free on TV when they could literally pack the megaplexes for weeks.

We'll set our Bothan spies to work on getting more information out of the notoriously tight-lipped Lucas.