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Producer Rick McCallum discusses George Lucas ' scrapped Star Wars : Underground serial , which would have cost around $ 40M - plus per sequence .
BeforeGeorge Lucassold his studio Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion , he had at least one major ambitious design with his biggest franchise Star Wars , a TV series that would have bridged 2005’sRevenge of the Sithand 1977’sA New Hope , which are episodes three and four of the Skywalker Saga . Under the Disney canon , there have been several projects that take place within the timeframe including 2016’sRogue One , the Disney+ seriesAndor , The Mandalorian , andThe Book of Boba Fett . Executive producerRick McCallum , who worked with Lucas on the prequel trilogy , appear on theYoung Indy Chroniclespodcast to break down what would have beenStar Wars : Underworld .
Rick McCallum Sheds Light on George Lucas' Ambitious Star Wars TV Project That Never Was
" I mean we had over 60 playscript … like third draft scripts , " McCallum told legion , Peter HolmstromandDaniel Noa , tot Lucasfilm film recruited the " most wonderful author in the world " to Lucas ' Skywalker Ranch to work to develop the serial publication and had a salmagundi of ideas . " These were gloomy . They were sexy . They were violent . They were absolutely terrific , complicated , dispute scripts . "
McCallum believes that had the series gone forward , Underworld"would’ve blow up the whole ' Star Wars ' universe , and Disney would ’ve decidedly never offered George to buy the franchise . " He also promise the missed opportunity " one of the great disappointments of our life " but admits it might have been too ambitious for its own goodness . " The problem was that each episode was big than the moving-picture show , so the lowest I could get it down to with the tech that existed then was $ 40 million an episode . "
Would it have work on under the Disney regime ? Probably not , especially at that $ 40 million per installment price tatter , though the estimation is n’t so ridiculous now with season four of Netflix’sStranger Thingsaveraging $ 30 million per episode and Prime Video’sThe Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Power’sseason one at $ 58 million per episode . Both were released in 2022 . As far as Disney ’s most expensive TV show , that would be Marvel’sShe - heavyweight : Attorney at Law(also in 2022 ) at $ 25 million per installment , well below the range that Lucas was aiming for .
Could Lucas ’s ambitions then be more accommodating for 2025 ? We ’ll never know . For more , you could check out the fullepisode .
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