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STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD Test Footage Leaks Online, Finally Revealing George Lucas' Scrapped TV Series

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The first live-action Star Wars TV series came our way last year in the form of The Manalorian, but that's not the first time Lucasfilm has considered a small screen take on this Galaxy Far, Far Away.

Before Disney purchased the studio for $4 billion, George Lucas was working on Star Wars: Underworld, a show that was going to be set between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope which chronicled the rise of the Empire. Fifty scripts were written and the initial plan was for there to be 100 42-minute instalments. Thanks to budgetary concerns, it never ended up happening.

It's clear now that there are no plans for Star Wars: Underworld to see the light of day, but some test footage has now leaked online giving us an idea of what the show would have looked like.

There's also a behind-the-scenes look at how all this was put together, and it seems fitting that it's leaked now, especially after we recently got to see Colin Trevorrow's original plans for Episode outside-affiliatelinksnotallowed 

 

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Star Wars: Underworld wiki page

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Star Wars: Underworld is said to be set primarily in the Coruscant underworld (which was briefly glimpsed during Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones), in the time period between Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. It is during this period that the Galactic Empire rises to ultimate power throughout the galaxy. In 2005, George Lucas told Celebration III audiences that the show would not focus on any characters from the films, but that some of them could appear; "A lot of the issues from the films are connected, but you won't necessarily see a lot of the people that are connected." He later described the show as "bare-bones" and "action-heavy," and explained that it would depict what the inhabitants of the Star Wars galaxy do for entertainment.

 

Producer Rick McCallum commented on the plot of the series: "[Lucas] envisions somewhere like 100 hours between Episode III and Episode IV with a lot of characters that we haven't met that have been developed in some of the novels and other things. We are really excited about that. Finally, we could have the opportunity to answer everybody's questions once and for all by the time we finish the series."; "It is going to be much darker, grittier. It's much more character-based"; "Think about bounty hunter, that's all I can tell you."[18] He also called it "Deadwood in space" and "Empire on steroids," and compared it to The Godfather. Lucasfilm's Steve Sansweet also described the series as revealing the "greasy, seamy underbelly of Star Wars."

 

According to Dan Wasson, project leader for the Wii version of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game, the TV series may contain elements from the overall Star Wars: The Force Unleashed multimedia project. In 2014, Stephen Scaia revealed in his Kickstarter campaign that he had been a writer for the series, and was involved in several story elements, including Lando Calrissian losing the Millennium Falcon to Han Solo, Solo and Chewbacca's first meeting, as well as an action scene with Boba Fett.

 

Prior to the release of the original Star Wars film in 1977, rumors began circulating that a TV series would be produced based on the film.[61][62][63] Although such a project never came to fruition, George Lucas became involved (to varying degrees) in three live-action Star Wars television productions: The Star Wars Holiday Special, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor. While the Holiday Special was a critical failure, both Ewok films won Emmy awards and had a positive critical reaction. In each case, the networks saw the productions as backdoor pilots for possible television series, though Lucas wasn't interested.[64][65] From 1992 to 1996, Lucas produced the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, during which he developed a love of making television.

 

In late 2004, rumors again began to circulate of a live-action Star Wars series in development. Lucas officially announced his plans for a live-action Star Wars television series at Celebration III, saying "We probably won't start that until sometime next year." He also spoke of plans for a new animated television series set during the Clone Wars, which he expected to be produced first. Also at the event, Rick McCallum elaborated; "He [George] envisions somewhere like 100 hours between Episode III and Episode IV."[17] However, at 2007's Celebration Europe, McCallum claimed that the plan was to produce "up to 400 episodes". He also revealed that "I've had three conceptual artists working on it now for about seven months." The original plan was for the first season to be entirely written and produced before shopping the series to broadcast networks; After a network was committed, work would commence on the following seasons.

 

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