As pointed out in a previous news story, it’s a good time to be a Star Wars fan. We have J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII currently being filmed, Godzilla director Gareth Edwards directing a spin-off movie and Chronicle‘s Josh Trank doing another. But one Star Wars spin-off that looks like we’ll never see is the live-action TV show Star Wars: Underworld. It had long been rumoured but there wasn’t much really revealed about it – until now.
In a video on his Kickstarter page for his Indiana Jones fan film Army of the Lost Horizon, Stephen Scaia dropped some big hints about what the show might have entailed. “[I was] a big fan of Lucas and Spielberg my whole life, especially Indiana Jones and Star Wars,” Scaia explains on his Kickstarter page. “When I heard there was the thought of a live-action Star Wars show happening, I pushed really hard to get myself and my writing partner on that show. We had the meeting and we got the job.”
“The way the show worked was that it was going to take place between Episodes III and IV and it was going to tell the story of a different part of the Star Wars Universe that you didn’t exactly know and that would slowly fold back into the characters you knew and love.”
“We told the stories of when Han met Chewie and how Lando lost the Millennium Falcon – I even got to pitch an action scene with Boba Fett and his jet pack. And, there is no greater thrill than to have the guy who created all these things look at you and give a thumbs up and say ‘I like that'”
With the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, it seems unlikely that Star Wars: Underworld will ever happen.
Star Wars Episode VII is set for release in December 2015 with a cast that includes Star Wars veterans Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) who will be joined by Adam Driver (Girls), Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Domhnall Gleeson (Dredd), John Boyega (Attack the Block), Daisy Ridley (Silent Witness), Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) and Max von Sydow (The Exorcist).
Originally published June 12, 2014. Updated April 11, 2018.
