I’m not gonna lie: this one stings. Star Wars prequels producer Rick McCallum lately revealed that the legendary cancelled collection Star Wars: Underworld would’ve price a whopping $40 million per episode to make — successfully dooming it to be axed for finances causes.
“The drawback was that every episode was greater than the movies,” McCallum defined in an interview on the Young Indy Chronicles podcast. “So the bottom I might get it all the way down to with the tech that existed then was $40 million an episode.” McCallum added that the shortcoming to efficiently understand the venture through the years continues to be “one of many nice disappointments of our lives.”
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With 60 “third draft” scripts written that showcased the Star Wars universe in “horny, violent, darkish, difficult, sophisticated, and great” methods from “probably the most great writers on the planet,” it appears as if the finances was the true killer within the crib for this venture. 60 scripts instances $40 million an episode is already nicely into the $1 billion mark — and it appears as if even George Lucas himself couldn’t scrounge up that type of money again within the early 2000s.
“[It] would’ve blown up the entire Star Wars universe and Disney would’ve positively by no means supplied George to purchase the franchise,” McCallum added. The collection was really axed as soon as Disney took management of Lucasfilm and Lucas stepped apart.
Though McCallum didn’t verify any plot particulars throughout this interview, followers have lengthy believed that the collection would cowl the occasions between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. The producer beforehand revealed that the collection would function a whole new cast of characters, would’ve drastically expanded the Star Wars universe, and was focusing on an grownup — reasonably than teen and youngster — viewers.
Star Wars: Underworld was first revealed at Star Wars Celebration again in 2005 and check footage from the collection was leaked in 2020, however since then, that’s all she wrote. Sadly, it appears to be like as if it might simply keep that manner.
Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can comply with her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
