George Lucas
didn’t at all times see his Star Wars
saga as being geared toward household audiences, and just lately surfaced particulars about his deserted TV collection, Star Wars: Underworld, recommend that the franchise might have been very completely different if it had gone forward. Whereas Star Wars TV reveals have been a giant a part of the franchise within the final six years, simply earlier than Disney purchased Lucasfilm within the late 2000s, Lucas was on the verge of manufacturing a violent and horny present that might have had an episode price greater than many films.
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Deliberate as a community tv collection lengthy earlier than streaming was a factor, the collection would have taken place after the occasions of Revenge of the Sith, probably forming a bridge between the prequel films and the unique trilogy. Though it was identified that Lucas deliberate such a collection, throughout an look on the Younger Indy Chroniclers podcast, producer Rick McCallum revealed how grand and costly Lucas’ imaginative and prescient for the collection was. He stated:
“I feel we had over sixty scripts, third-draft scripts…once more, essentially the most fantastic writers on this planet on it. We created precisely the identical expertise for everyone on the Ranch…it was an exceptional group of expertise. These had been darkish. These weren’t…they had been horny, they had been violent, they had been simply completely fantastic, fantastic…difficult, difficult…it could have blown up the entire Star Wars universe. And Disney positively by no means would have provided to purchase it from George. [laughs] It is one of many nice disappointments of our lives. However the issue was, every episode was greater than the movies. The bottom I might get it right down to, with the expertise that existed then, was about $40 million an episode.”
George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ Might Have Been a Big Success, or Horrible Catastrophe
Like every undertaking that by no means made it to screens, Star Wars: Underworld will at all times be an enormous what-if for the franchise. Whereas there’s now a perception that followers of franchises corresponding to Star Wars, the DCU, and MCU need extra mature content material, simply over a decade in the past there was a variety of warning about messing with the formulation that was working for large IPs.
At a value of just about 3 times the typical price of an episode of The Mandalorian, Underworld would have had an exceptional finances, and though it’s unknown whether or not Disney had been ever given these scripts after they purchased Lucasfilm in 2012, it was HBO who Lucas was able to pitch the collection to. Nevertheless, the plans by no means went forward attributable to HBO’s CEO having to tug out of the deliberate assembly after he turned a part of a scandal that broke the day earlier than he was set to debate the undertaking. Maybe some issues do occur for a motive.
Whereas followers by no means bought to see Underworld in any type, there have reportedly been many components which were introduced into Star Wars lore within the years because the present was deserted. Whether or not we’ll ever know precisely what the scripts regarded like is one thing that for now could be as unwritten as most of the films which can be nonetheless supposedly being labored on.
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