Today, Star Wars is arguably one of the biggest licenses in the world and has millions and millions of fans around the world. And if we have had several films, series and games, everything has not been perfect, far from it. In fact, here is The Star Wars: Underworld series was a failure, however, it still became one of the most influential series in the saga.
Star Wars Underworld, a colossal project unfortunately abandoned
For those who don’t yet know, in 2005 George Lucas had a very ambitious project: a new Star Wars series with live action. If it was intended to fill the gap between the original trilogy and the prequels, unfortunately nothing happened as planned.
In fact, after writing no less than 100 episodes through which fans should have seen the Empire trying to stabilize its power, here is everything was thrown in the trash after the Disney takeover, but then why? Well here, it is not a question of the quality of the project being mediocre, but it was actually a question of money: in fact, the budget would have been much too large, and that is Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm who spoke to Vanity Fair on this subject.
I think part of the reason there was a reluctance to think about Star Wars on television is that we have to create everything. Nothing exists. We can’t just walk down the streets of New York and start shooting. We must create the world. It’s constant world-building. Every ship, every motorcycle, every piece of costume, everything has to be created.
Kathleen Kennedy
Moreover, Rick McCallum, the producer, had calculated the cost, and we would have had to find a way to do all this, every week, on a budget of only $5 million.…
An unexpected influence in the Star Wars saga
Although the series was canceled, paradoxically, it influenced a good number of Star Wars productions thereafter. Indeed, Lucas then suggested some ideas and plots to Dave Filoni, directorand thanks to the know-how of the great Lucas, we were able to find certain traces of abandoned scripts through The Clone Wars, Rogue One or even Solo.
Who knows, maybe in future years we will have the right to the publication of this series and therefore, have the right to discover once and for all the first 100 episodes which were already written! Only the future will tell us.
