George Lucas’ Star Wars series would have cost $ 40 million per episode!

Rick McCallum talks about the aborted Star Wars: Underworld project.

Before Andor,, Skeleton Crew and the others, George Lucas had planned to make a Star Wars series. But Star Wars: Underworld has never seen the light of day. Especially because of its exorbitant cost. Rick McCallumproducer of Star Wars At the time of George Lucas, says.

Guest of the Podcast Young Indy Chronicles, he reveals that the ambitious project is one of the last on which George Lucas got involved before selling the Disney deductible in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion. The story was to be between the events of Revenge of the Sith And A new hopeserving as a bridge between the original trilogy and the prelogy, produced by Rick McCallum.

“I think we had more than 60 scripts … scripts already in their third version! We had gathered the best writers in the world at Skywalker Ranch to design and write the series. These scripts were dark, sensual, violent. They were absolutely wonderful, complex and very stimulating”.

The producer has refrained from giving precise details on the plot, but indicated that the series of Star Wars: Underworld “”would have upset the whole universe Star Wars. And Disney would surely never have offered to George to buy the franchise. “But for McCallum, the cancellation of the project Underworld stay “One of the great disappointments of our lives“.

So why didn’t she get?
On the one hand, she would have questioned the sale of Lucasfilm, but the real problem was especially that each episode of the series would have cost more than a film: “The lowest price I could get with the technology of the time was 40 million dollars per episode! “

The series therefore died in the egg when Disney acquired Lucasfilm and George Lucas left his post. Kathleen Kennedy then developed the universe Star Wars in TV series.