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Ronald D. Moore ( For All Mankind ) shared how far along the committal to writing was on George Lucas ' unproduced pre - Disney Star Wars : Underground series .
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Star Wars producerRick McCallumdropped a minute of a thunderbolt in the beginning this calendar month when he revealed that Star Wars creatorGeorge Lucashad major plans for his dealership that would have bridged 2005’sRevenge of the Sithand 1977’sA New Hope , episodes III and IV of the Skywalker Saga , during theYoung Indy Chroniclerspodcast . The manufacturer of the prequel trilogy share that the ambitious project was to be calledStar warfare : Underground , recruit the " most wonderful writers in the universe " with " over 60 playscript … like third conscription scripts . " Among them wasRonald D. Moore , who ’s ferment on some of the biggest sci - fi franchise inStar Trek , Battlestar Galactica , and currently , For All Mankind . appear onThe Sackhoff Show , the EP and writer open up about the clock time when Lucasfilm contact him and his meeting with Lucas and McCallum about the task .
Ronald D. Moore Reflects on Writing ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ with George Lucas and Rick McCallum
" Galactica was winding down . Caprica was starting right around that period . I got a call that George Lucas wants to meet with [ me ] about a possible serial , " Moore told hostKatee Sackhoff . " So I meet with George … and producer Rick McCallum , and at that point , George wanted to do a live - activity Star Wars television set serial … What he wanted to do is he wanted to conglomerate a group of writers together , kind of an international group of writer . So I was one of the Americans , and there were some from the UK and from Australia [ and ] New Zealand , and he would make for us together up at Skywalker Ranch for like a long weekend … We would go for these long weekends , or a week or something , at a clock time with George in a group discussion way at Skywalker Ranch and break these account . Then we would go off for like another six workweek out by ourselves , write the scripts , then regather , talk about notes , do another group of scripts . "
Moore explained the team met off and on over one to two geezerhood on the Star Wars undertaking . " We would just gather , break up , gathering , break and … we wrote something like , I think , 48 or 50 sequence … It ’s emphatically in the forty … And when we got to that point , George said , ' Okay , that ’s enough . ' And he ’s then he wanted to just take those scripts , and he was just gon na go shoot them on his dime … In George ’s mind , it was , ' Once I ’ve produced it , I ’m just gon na then take it to a internet and go ' Take it or go forth it . This is what it is . I do n’t care what your note are , I do n’t wish what your thoughts are , it ’s done . Do you want it ? ' "
McCallum toldIndy ChroniclershostsPeter HolmstromandDaniel Noathat the project would be too cost - prohibitive . The scummy - end figure per sequence would have been $ 40 million , which is quite high consider this before Disney ’s purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012 . time of year one of Prime Video’sThe Lord of the Rings : The Rings of Powercosts $ 58 million per episode … in 2022 with better technology available .
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