George Lucas will be filming the Star Wars live-action television series in Sydney, using local actors and crew. He told The Daily Telegraph: "I am looking forward to coming back and working there some more. We're going to do a live action show based on minor characters in the Star Wars series. It's a spin-off, it doesn't involve any of the key characters. It's a different world unto itself between episodes three (Revenge of the Sith) and four (A New Hope)."

Producer Rick McCallum said: "George is thinking maybe we can do a series somewhere between episode three and four because that's the longest break (in the film series), 20 years. The Death Star takes 20 years to build so we need to work that out."

They are intending to produce 100 episodes (which allows them to sell it into syndication).