George Lucas will come as close to San Diego's Comic-Con as he could ever dare when he appears via video conference as part of the event's Star Wars presentation.

It's not top secret news that George Lucas is planning a live-action Star Wars television series that would fill in the gaps between big screen entries Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope. With talk of the show preparing to roll camera in Australia, the status of the TV production will be first and foremost on most fans' minds.

Speculation has it that Lucas might even shine his Death Star super laser of wisdom down on his followers by answering fan-submitted questions during the convention appearance.

If that's true, we can only hope that someone filters out the more antagonistic queries before they get to Skywalker Ranch via cyberspace. While they made a galaxy of money, the prequel series of movies Lucas directed was not hugely popular with many die-hard fans. They've been sharpening their light sabers for a swipe at Lucas ever since.

Also, it'd be disastrous to air too many inquiries from those bizarre uber-fanboys lost in the endless details of the saga. Nobody cares how the Dianoga (the one-eyed, tentacled monster in the trash compactor in Episode IV) got so big when all he had to eat was metal garbage. We want to know if we're going to have new, live-action Star Wars stories to watch next fall.