Ronald D. Moore, creator of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica and a writer on George Lucas’ scrapped Star Wars: Underworld TV show, has shared a few details about what could have been. Before George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, he was planning to make a very ambitious Star Wars TV show set in the lower levels […]
Test footage from George Lucas’ abandoned Star Wars: Underworld TV series leaks online
Long before The Mandalorian, back when the Lucasfilm acquisition was still a twinkle in Bob Iger’s eye, George Lucas announced plans to bring the Star Wars saga to the small screen with a live-action series entitled Star Wars: Underworld. The project, planned as 100 hours of television and announced in 2005, would have been set […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was originally conceived as an idea for TV
During an interview with Comic Book Resources to promote the home entertainment release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, ILM’s John Knoll has revealed that he originally conceived the idea as a potential pitch for an episode of Star Wars: Underworld, the live-action Star Wars TV project that was in development at Lucasfilm following the […]
Star Wars: Underworld TV series would have made The Emperor a sympathetic figure
Prior to Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, George Lucas and company spent several years developing a live-action Star Wars series entitled Star Wars: Underworld, which would have run for at least 100 episodes and was reportedly set in the criminal underbelly of Coruscant. Details on the abandoned project have been kept tightly under wraps, but Cory […]
