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The TV series development of the Stars Wars film contract will run to at least 100 episodes, producer Rick McCallum told the BBC.

McCallum told BBC Radio 1 that the writing team would soon be meeting to kick-off the initiative, which would begin filming in 2008 and be ready the same year.

“Hopefully if we can make it work and everybody’s excited and watches it we will keep on going,” said McCallum.

The series will be set between episodes three and four of the film saga.

The new series would probably feature the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most movie buffs.

McCallum said there would be “a whole bunch of new characters” and the series would be “much more dramatic and darker”.

McCallum told the BBC that most probably none of the stars involved in the TV series would be a part of the movie venture.

Production is supposed to start in 2008. George Lucas is currently working on the new Indiana Jones 4. The busy man is making Red Tails, and then he will start the Star Wars TV series.

There has already been a Star Wars series sequel in the form of the animated Clone Wars, which began as three-minute episodes before they were expanded to 30-minute shows.

Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, released in 2005, marked the end of the end of the Star Wars saga on the big screen.

It became the biggest film franchise in history, with the final film alone taking £500m at the box office outside of the US.