A series of 4,000 million dollars
Within ‘Star Wars‘The’ are so popular yes …? ‘ that the official paths themselves has taken by the franchise. For example, the deviations that were never and that Disney threw in that alternative stories container but outside the canon categorized as ‘legends’. Or all the projects that never came out, among which an ambitious television series, ‘Star Wars: Underworld’, which Lucas had to leave aside for its high cost, but that would have changed the saga forever. A series by George Lucas. According to these new data that producer Rick McCallum has revealed in the podcast ‘Young Indy Chronicles’the creator of the original franchise was developing a series for several years after closing his trilogy of prequels with ‘The revenge of the Sith’. ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ would have elapsed in the time space between the original trilogy and the newly released, serving as a narrative bridge between them. We like thieves. ‘Underworld’ would have been set in the criminal underworld of ‘Star Wars’: smugglers, thieves and hunter would compose the usual fauna of the series. In fact, Indiewire Define what Lucas was trying to do as “‘the soprano’ in ‘Star Wars’”. Interestingly, it is an atmosphere comparable to what tried to develop the commercially failed ‘Star Wars Outlaws‘(Note the similarities in the title, of practically interchangeable meaning) of Ubisoft, a tremendously attractive video game on the role that, however, He has not finished finding his audience. They are 40 million. The main obstacle for the series to move forward was its cost. McCallum comments that he does not imagine how each episode could have been shot for less than 40 million dollars. “Each episode was bigger than movies”, which explains not only the very high budget that each episode would have needed, but the tremendous ambition of demonstrating Lucas, which also knew how to see that television was a good space, still virgin, to tell certain types of stories and give them a very specific structure. “ Complicated scripts. The second great obstacle for the series to become as it was conceived of Lucas were the scripts, which McCallum defines as “absolutely wonderful, complicated, challenging.” And they were to the point that “the ‘Star Wars’ universe would have exploded, and Disney sure would never have offered George to buy the franchise.” An example to get the idea: showrunner of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ was aboard ‘underworld’ as a screenwriter, which makes clear to what extent the series was a darker vision of science fiction that until that moment escaped ‘Star Wars’. Long -term plan. Lucas was serious: he had planned more than one hundred episodes, of which sixty came to have quite final scripts: that is, a plan comparable to the lively ‘clone wars’ of 2008. However, not all ‘underwold’ was lost: indiewire affirms that the basic idea of ’Rogue One’ trilogies). ‘Undereworld’ also wanted to explore the origins of Han breath, a concept that ended Become a movie. And, finally, series like ‘The Mandalorian‘ either ‘Andor‘They are in tune with the base of’ underworld ‘. In this very distant galaxy everything is used. ‘Star Wars’, now. Although these elements have ended up arriving at what is ‘Star Wars’ today, there are two completely absent elements of this ‘underworld’ and that are an essential part of the franchise today. On the one hand, nostalgia, winks and dependence on the two original trilogies; And on the other, an absolute escape from any risk of risk, except in extraordinary cases such as ‘Andor’. A diametrically opposite philosophy to which Lucas wanted to rehearse with ‘underworld’. Header | Disney In Xataka | The catastrophe of the ‘Star Wars’ hotel: 3,000 euros per night in an interactive film of 350 million dollars
