I agree that attempting a short subject is more likely to succeed. Perhaps a nonprofit fan production. Getting official license from CCP might be difficult, since they were attempting something.
CCP’s CEO addressed this topic in a rare forum AMA:
Years ago you talked about a TV series what happened to this?
We had ambitious plans for this, but right now we’re focusing on being a video games company and are working hardcore to prepare EVE for the third decade. Don’t worry though, we still have plans and the fire is still very much burning in terms of wanting to bring New Eden to the silver screen. Nothing to reveal right now, but we’ll see what the future brings.
The “ambitious plans” may have refered to this 2015 announcement.