Whether he mucks it up or not, self-financing 100 episodes, networks be damned, is a luxury few modern producers could even dream of (imagine a self-financed Sorkin West Wing on HBO, or Whedon Firefly…) Yet hopefully lower cost 4K cameras, Final Cut Pro, and the Internet will mean that, one day, you don’t need Lucas-bucks to do this kind of thing.
George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ plan | George Lucas | The Q&A | Movies | Entertainment Weekly | 2
Have you built any sets or done any mockups?
No, what we do in our TV series is we write the entire first year and finish it as a script. Then we start getting ready to shoot it, then we start casting, and then we do it. We know where the whole first year is before we even start to work on it. I mean, I can do that because I’m financing the whole thing. So I’ve got it pegged out for 100 episodes, and I know exactly what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it and what the risks are.
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