“There is always some truth in legends,” said Ahsoka once on “Star Wars: Rebels. “
That line was a small Easter egg to the fans to dampen them about how beforeDisney Taking over “Star Wars” stories-stained for decades worth novels, comics and video game-can still live on in the official cannon. It also applies a little to the show “Star Wars: Underworld,” George LucasS ambitious, but finally scrapped live-action TV The series he developed during the years after “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” met theaters in 2005.
Small pieces of information have leaked about the show over the years. One thing was certain: Per its title was put in the demimonde of the galaxy far, far away, among its debris, and smugglers, and bounty hunters and various other criminals. But now Rick McCallum, the producer who is best associated with the “Star Wars” trials, who monitored the production of these films on Lucasfilm with Lucas himself who directs, opens a little more about what the series would have represented.
On “Young Indy Chronicles” podcast – McCallum entered the Lucasfilm folding as a producer at the 90s show, which undoubtedly carries many tongue similarities to Prequels – the producer said it “would have blown the entire” Star Wars “universe and Disney would definitely never offer George to buy the franchise.”
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Part of it may have due to the cost. He said on the podcast that they could not find out how to make each episode for less than $ 40 million (and if we know anything, the cost science Disney is not willing to invest too much more in shows that go over budget- Just look at “The Acolyte”). “The problem was that each section was bigger than the films,” he said. “So the lowest I could get it down with each (installment) that was then $ 40 million per section.”
McCallum also said that “these were dark. They were sexy. They were violent. They were absolutely wonderful, complicated, challenging scripts. “Over the years,” Star Wars: Underworld “had been called Lucas who tried to make” The Sopranos “in” Star Wars. ” And since time has passed since the show has simply proved to be too expensive to do and a broadcast partner was never lined up, more details have appeared here and there.
Among Them, “Star Trek” Writer and “Battlestar Galactica” Showrunner Ronald D. Moore, who Went on to showrun “Outlander” INSTEAD, WAS ONE OF THE Writers on “Underworld” – Given The Extraordinary Complexity he Gave “Galactica. Nine, “and his all-hour of a script with Brannon Braga for” Star Trek: First Contact, “The idea that he was involved in” Star Wars “is a” could have been “in eternity.
McCallum went so far as to say that they had 60 episodes to at least the third draft-it is believed that Lucas planned that the show would run over 100 episodes, just as he had planned for “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”-animated series launched in 2008-It achieved that performance, finally clock in 133 payments. He left the company after the Disney acquisition in October 2012.
Getting back to the importance of the Ahsoka quote that fans have always embraced: that the stories developed in “Star Wars” before Disney has always found a way to bubble back in any way-only to look at how the non-Canon Grand Admiral Thrawn, introduced in a popular series of books 1991, made its way to it its way to the way to the way to the way to the way to the way to the way in that way made its way to the way in the way of the Official Series. Self. It is believed that parts of the “underworld” may have appeared in the Disney properties that have been produced since and we just have not known it.
We know that “Rogue One” was a project played by VFX Wiz John Knoll on Lucasfilm Pre -Disney … Maybe it has mainly been planned to be an elaborate “underworld” payment? (Yahoo Entertainment claimed it was.) Germain lussier at slash film Said “Underworld” would have explored him Solo’s origin … could it have changed to “Solo: A Star Wars Story”? Even the idea of focusing on the criminal underworld is something that “underworld” had in common with “The Mandalorian”, while “The Bad Batch” animated series and “Andor” continued to explore the same time period “Underworld” seemingly would have.
“Underworld” seems to be an incredibly lost opportunity that was a few years before his time. But we may have seen more of it than we realize.
