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Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse, along with his son Nick, are working on a new Star Wars series for Disney/Lucasfilm, it’s been announced.

After a lengthy wait, Andor season 2 has begun streaming in certain territories (the UK gets it on the 23rd April). Meanwhile, Lucasfilm appears to be planning other small screen adventures in the Star Wars franchise.

Several outlets – including Variety – are reporting that Carlton Cuse, perhaps best known as the showrunner of hit ABC series Lost, is currently in the early stages of developing a new Star Wars TV series. Cuse is said to be making the show with his son Nick, writer on the likes of the 2019 Watchmen series or Masters Of The Air.

Besides that, absolutely nothing is known about what the Cuses are working on. This means we’ll have to write about some other semi-related things in order to make this news story look a bit more substantial.

2025 marks the 20th anniversary of Lucasfilm Animation, and the company commemorated its anniversary with a new poster, which was unveiled at Star Wars Celebration in Shiba, Japan. While the poster mostly celebrates their successful projects, there's also a hidden reference to a Star Wars project that will probably never see the light of day. Star Wars: Detours, an animated comedy series from the Robot Chicken team, is referenced on the poster, making it the first time it's been officially acknowledged in years.

The poster features characters from all of Lucasfilm Animation's popular Star Wars series, from The Clone Wars to Rebels to Resistance, but appropriately enough for this weekend, there's a hidden Easter egg for one of the most obscure Star Wars animated series. If you look closely in the bottom right corner of the poster, you'll see a Stormtrooper with a giant head and comical goggle-eyes, taken directly from the long-lost animated series.

Every once in a while, the subject of Star Wars: Underworld resurfaces, leaving Star Wars fans even more curious about it. Now, producer Rick McCallum has revealed more information about the scrapped George Lucaslive-action series, and it sounds like, had it gone forward, both the franchise and television itself would be very different right now. This notion comes at a curious moment, because Star Wars has been struggling with streaming for a long time, as if it's still unsure of its footing and what it wants to be. What McCallum revealed about Underworld actually sounds like what the franchise is sorely lacking right now, and not for the reasons fans would imagine.

You might not expect a connection between action superstar Tom Cruise and the galaxy far, far away, but it turns out he played a big part in getting John Boyega into ‘Star Wars’. Before Boyega became Finn in ‘The Force Awakens’, he was just a young actor from London trying to make his mark. His breakout came with a little sci-fi flick called ‘Attack the Block’, and that’s where this story starts.

Boyega’s role as Moses in ‘Attack the Block’ caught a lot of eyes when it hit screens in 2011. He led a group of teens fighting off an alien invasion in a South London housing estate. The movie mixed humor with action and earned praise for its fresh take. It wasn’t a massive hit, but it built a cult following.

Apparently, one of those fans was Tom Cruise. While working on a ‘Mission Impossible’ film, Cruise...

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When the Star WarsSkywalker Saga seemingly ended 20 years ago with Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas still planned to keep the franchise alive in some capacity. In addition to the comic books and novels, the Clone Wars animated series was one project that would continue the space opera. However, like Emperor Palpatine, Lucas had much bigger plans. After Revenge of the Sith, Lucas focused on developing a live-action Star Wars series.

The series has become known as Star Wars: Underworld, a great behind-the-scenes legend since it never became a reality. Based on the concept, Star Wars: Underworld would've made it one of the most ambitious projects in the franchise and transformed television. While Lucas was unable to get a...

Long before its purchase by Disney, Lucasfilm was working on a TV series, Star Wars: Underworld. Producer Rick McCallum has talked about why it never happened.

Revenge Of The Sith, the last Star Wars episode directed by George Lucas himself, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. And while that 2005 film marked the end of the prequel trilogy, Lucas still had plans to expand the Star Wars universe on television.

Announced around the time of Revenge Of The Sith’s release, the TV series Star Wars: Underworld was billed as a darker, edgier take on his space fantasy saga; Lucas once described it as being “based on film noir movies of the 1940s.”

Other people who worked on the show compared its tone to sweary western series Deadwood or gangster epic, The Godfather.

With Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D Moore among its stable of writers, Star Wars: Underworld was in development for at least five years,...

“There’s always a little bit of truth in legends,” Ahsoka once said on “Star Wars: Rebels.”

That line was a little Easter Egg to fans to assuage them about how the pre-Disney takeover “Star Wars” stories — told in decades-worth of novels, comics, and video games — might still live on in the official canon. It also applies a bit to the show “Star Wars: Underworld,” George Lucas’s ambitious, but ultimately scrapped live-action TV series he was developing in the years after “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” hit theaters in 2005.

Little bits of information have leaked about the show over the years. One thing was certain: Per its title, it was set in the demimonde of the galaxy far, far away, among its scoundrels, and smugglers, and bounty hunters and assorted other criminals. But now Rick McCallum, the producer best associated with the “Star Wars” prequels, who...

Before George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012, he was working on a handful of new Star Wars projects. One of those projects was Star Wars: Underworld, a live-action TV series which would have been set between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. The series was axed when Disney took over the franchise, but a lot of work had already been done, including writing over 60 scripts.

However, Star Wars: Underworld wouldn’t have come cheap. While speaking on the Young Indy Chroniclers podcast, producer Rick McCallum said each episode would have cost $40 million. “I think we had over 60 scripts… like third draft scripts,” McCallum said. “These were dark [scripts]. They were sexy. They were violent. They were absolutely wonderful, complicated, challenging scripts. The problem was that each episode was bigger than the films, so the lowest I could get it down to with the each that...

George Lucas’ “Star Wars” producer Rick McCallum recently appeared on an episode of the “Young Indy Chronicles” podcast and teased what would’ve been “Star Wars: Underworld,” an ambitious television series that was one of the last “Star Wars” projects Lucas was working on before he sold the franchise to Disney in 2012 for $4.05 billion. The series was set between the events of “Revenge of the Sith” and “A New Hope” and would’ve acted as a bridge between the original “Star Wars” trilogy and the prequel trilogy, the later of which McCallum produced.

“I think we had over 60 scripts… like third draft scripts,” McCallum said, noting they brought the “most wonderful writers in the world” to Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch to map out and pen the series. “These were dark [scripts]. They were sexy. They were violent. They were absolutely wonderful, complicated, challenging scripts.”

McCallum stopped short of providing plot details for...

Before George Lucas sold Lucasfilm and the “Star Wars” rights to Disney, he had attempted to put together an extremely ambitious television project called “Star Wars: Underworld” and according to longtime producer Rick McCallum (“Indiana Jones” and “Star Wars” franchises) there were some headache-inducing costs involved because of the limited technology at the time.

McCallum spoke with the podcast “Young Indy Chronicles” (spotted by Gizmodo) detailing how many scripts they compiled during their pained and long development period alongside what each episode would have cost them using the VFX tech of the day.

Continue reading George Lucas’ Unmade ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ Series Would Have Cost Billions Due To Technology Limitations at The Playlist.

These days, the idea of a Star Wars TV series is old news. In lieu of any big-screen outings for the franchise since the widely panned "Rise of Skywalker" in 2019, the last five-plus years of Star Wars have consisted entirely of streaming shows on Disney+, books, comics, and video games. But back before George Lucas sold Lucasfilm and its associated properties to Disney, Star Wars was a film series before all else, and the idea of bringing its universe to television in live-action seemed far-fetched. Even still, it nearly happened under Lucas, and we now know just how far those grand plans went.

The series' working title was "Star Wars: Underworld," and it would have looked at all kinds of less-traveled corners of the galaxy, following smugglers, bounty hunters, the general criminal element, and other stories less central to the saga of the Skywalkers and the Jedi. And according to...

Before George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney, he almost launched Star Wars' first live-action series on ABC.

Via Inverse, producer Ron Moore says this series was so violent and dark that “Disney definitely would have never offered to buy Lucasfilm” had it been launched. This series was called Star Wars: Underworld, and fans may have heard of it already. ABC canceled it in 2012 due to its massive $40 million per episode budget.

Ron Moore admits that ABC had no issues with the show's violent themes, but the budget was out of control. The technology at the time wasn't sophisticated enough to create what Lucas wanted for each episode without breaking the bank. Regardless, even if the costs for each episode were cut in half, it would never have been enough, as “The problem was, each episode was bigger than the films." To put that into perspective, a season of The Mandalorian,...

Kathleen Kennedy has been at the helm of Lucasfilm for 13 years, leading the company through a period of significant growth and challenges, particularly with the Star Wars franchise. Recent rumors about Kathleen Kennedy leaving Lucasfilm have sparked confusion, but Daisy Ridley has set the record straight about the studio president’s involvement in her next Star Wars project.

Speaking at the SXSW premiere of her film We Bury the Dead, Ridley shared her thoughts, saying Kennedy remains a key part of the upcoming movie.

Reports about Kennedy’s future have been mixed. One source, Puck’s Matt Belloni, claimed she’d step down as Lucasfilm president by the end of 2025. However, Deadline later published Kennedy’s response, where she said, “I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies.” She also mentioned that talks about who might take over her role are underway, with more news expected in the...

George Lucas didn’t always see his Star Wars saga as being aimed at family audiences, and recently surfaced details about his abandoned TV series, Star Wars: Underworld, suggest that the franchise could have been very different if it had gone ahead. While Star Wars TV shows have been a big part of the franchise in the last six years, just before Disney bought Lucasfilm in the late 2000s, Lucas was on the verge of producing a violent and sexy show that would have had an episode cost higher than many movies.

Planned as a network television series long before streaming was a thing, the series would have taken place after the events of Revenge of the Sith, potentially forming a bridge between the prequel movies and the original trilogy. Although it was known that Lucas planned such a series, during an appearance on the Young Indy Chroniclers podcast, producer...

Star Wars: Underworld was a hugely ambitious project imagined by George Lucas as the first live-action TV series set in a Galaxy Far, Far Away. Dozens of scripts were written, but making it proved to be something of a logistical nightmare for Lucasfilm.

Ultimately, it fell by the wayside alongside several other small screen projects when Disney acquired the studio. Since then, we've seen the Kathleen Kennedy-led studio produce several shows for Disney+, including The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

We know the series was set on Coruscant and, as the title implies, it was going to explore the planet's Underworld at the height of the Empire's rule.

Little else is known beyond that but former Star Wars franchise producer Rick McCallum has shared some new details (via SFFGazette.com), including the fact each episode was going to cost $40 million to produce.

Considering 60 of them were planned, you can...

Star Wars: Underworld was a planned live-action TV series set between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. George Lucas announced it in 2005, and over 60 scripts were written. The show was supposed to be dark, action-packed, and focused on the criminal underworld of Coruscant. It would not follow the main Star Wars characters but could feature some familiar faces.

Lucas and his team worked hard to bring the series to life, but in 2010, it was put on hold because it was too expensive to make. The show was described as Deadwood in space and The Godfather of Star Wars. It would have explored bounty hunters, crime lords, and the rise of the Empire.

Although it was never made, Star Wars: Underworld remains one of the most exciting “what-ifs” in Star Wars history.

Related: Latest Rumor Claims Ryan Gosling’s ‘Star Wars’ Film Will Feature Him and a Young Male Padawan

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I recently came across some fascinating details about a Star Wars project that never saw the light of day. It’s called Star Wars: Underworld, and it was a bold idea from George Lucas himself.

Let’s dig into what could have been a game-changer for the franchise, based on what I learned from a podcast episode of Young Indy Chronicles featuring Peter and Daniel, along with producer Rick McCallum.

This canceled show was set to be unlike any Star Wars story we’ve seen before. Imagine a darker, more intense Star Wars with a mature edge—something that felt sexy and even violent.

It was meant to push boundaries, showing a side of the galaxy far removed from the family-friendly adventures we’re used to. The plan was to explore the gritty underbelly of this universe, and it sounds like it would have been a wild ride.

The project...

Steve Jobs once said, “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” In the 1970s, George Lucas blew open the world of sci-fi with his first Star Wars flick, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The seeds he planted as a young filmmaker back in the day would later blossom into the multi-billion dollar franchise we adore today.

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And his hunger for success would only go on to fuel his ambition. Among his future plans for the galaxy far, far away, included a television show of equally massive proportions. His vision would have birthed the most expensive TV show of its time, going head to head against already established franchises like Star Trek that were dominating the TV circuit.

However, the idea itself was deemed too big to fit in a tiny square frame...

This article contains mild spoilers for "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" episode 6, "Zero Friends Again."

"Star Wars" is one of the biggest fictional universes in film and TV, having been fleshed out with countless legends, stories, locations, and people. Like Middle-earth, it is a place that can support almost any kind of story. This is also why "Skeleton Crew" feels so fresh; the existence of an all-ages coming-of-age adventure set in the same universe as "Andor" is nothing but good news for the sustainability of "Star Wars."

More than just "The Goonies" in space, "Skeleton Crew" has taken the franchise somewhere it's never been before by telling a story about a group of kids longing for adventure and throwing them into a world of ruthless pirates and the search for a legendary treasure. (It's essentially the "Star Wars" version of "Treasure Planet.") Where "The Mandalorian" promised to take viewers deep into...

Adria Arjona hypes up Andor season 2, promising it's "f----ng better" than season 1 of the acclaimed Star Wars show. Lucasfilm's confidence seems high in the next chapter of the Rogue One prequel, particularly with their recent release of a promotional video with Diego Luna echoing Arjona's comments. Given the show's success in season 1 and anticipation for season 2, it could very well win back Star Wars fans after recent divisive shows and lay the groundwork for future shows.

Andor star Adria Arjona promises that season 2 of the hit Star Wars prequel show will raise the bar even higher. Serving as the highest-rated live-action Star Wars show on Rotten Tomatoes, season 1 was widely praised for its gritty and more mature take on the Lucasfilm franchise's mythos. With the new season expected to lead directly into the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars story, the Andor season 2 cast is set to...

Saw Gerrera played a pivotal role in the liberation of Onderon from the Separatists during the Clone Wars. Forest Whitaker portrayed Saw Gerrera in live-action beginning with Rogue One, showing his extreme tactics as the leader of the Partisans. Saw Gerrera has appeared in various Star Wars media beyond animation and live-action, showcasing his legacy and impact on the galaxy during the Dark Times of the Empire's reign.

Saw Gerrera has become one of Star Wars' most iconic and darkly captivating characters in the interim period between the prequel and original trilogies. While he came to notoriety during the period known as the Dark Times, Saw Gerrera's origins became as early as the Clone Wars. While called many different names throughout his career, Saw Gerreras had always been the living embodiment of rebellion, no matter the cost.

A creation of George Lucas who first had the character in mind for...

Sam Witwer, the voice behind some of the most iconic characters in the Star Wars universe, is not just a talented actor but also a die-hard fan of the epic franchise. His passion and love for the galaxy far, far away is evident in every role he takes on, from the conflicted Sith apprentice Starkiller in The Force Unleashed to the terrifying Darth Maul in The Clone Wars and Rebels.

Witwer’s journey into the Star Wars universe began with The Force Unleashed, a game that not only introduced him to the franchise but also paved the way for his future involvement in various Star Wars projects.

The Force Unleashed: A “Tall Tale” of Redemption A still from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. | Lucasfilm

Prior to the game’s re-release for the Nintendo Switch, Sam Witwer spoke with StarWars.com about his experience working on The Force Unleashed and...

Several Star Wars actors reprised their roles for the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, but not all returned consistently. Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lee returned in The Clone Wars movie but were replaced by other voice actors for the TV series. Actors like Anthony Daniels and Matthew Wood became recurring characters in The Clone Wars, keeping their characters consistent across mediums.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars redefined the franchise for television and showed what could be done through animation, and many Star Wars movie actors jumped at the chance to reprise their roles. Following the conclusion of the Star Wars prequel trilogy in 2005, George Lucas believed the saga's future was on the small screen and began developing multiple TV shows. The live-action Star Wars: Underworld was canceled for budgetary reasons, but The Clone Wars debuted with a theatrical release in 2008 and gave a few prequel trilogy actors...

Ahsoka showrunner Dave Filoni faced a unique challenge in bringing Grand Admiral Thrawn to life in the live-action Star Wars show, partially filmed using Lucasfilm's StageCraft technology. Also known as the Volume, the 360-degree LED soundstage casts a magenta hue on actors during filming, meaning Lars Mikkelsen's blue Thrawn makeup was constantly adjusted. The Volume is still an emerging technology, and its users, like Filoni, are constantly discovering both its potential and drawbacks, pushing the tech forward.

Ahsoka showrunner Dave Filoni revealed the unique challenge he faced in bringing Grand Admiral Thrawn to life in the live-action Star Wars show. Created by author Timothy Zahn for his Heir to the Empire trilogy of books, now designated as part of the non-canonical Legends continuity, Filoni first reintroduced the brilliant Imperial tactician as a key antagonist in season 3 of the animated Star Wars: Rebels series. Most recently, the popular Star...

George Lucas had original plans for Star Wars TV shows that were much more ambitious than Disney's current efforts, and would have spawned five TV shows per year. Lucas wanted to create multiple spin-off series from Star Wars: Underworld, but budgetary constraints led to the shelving of the project. Lucas's vision for Star Wars TV shows would have revolutionized the medium, but budget and technology limitations prevented its realization.

George Lucas' original plans for Star Wars TV ventures were surprisingly more ambitious than Disney's recent efforts have been. Since 2019, Star Wars' primary output has come from the world of television. This is evident by the continued efforts of Disney+, with several upcoming Star Wars TV shows only furthering the franchise's small-screen success. While the slate of upcoming Star Wars movies will finally see the franchise return to the big screen, there is no denying that Lucasfilm remains as committed as...

One of the biggest complaints that critics of the "Star Wars" prequels have is the idea that George Lucas was simply enabled by so-called "Yes Men." As they would tell it, George Lucas was so powerful and infallible that no one around him thought they could tell him "no" for anything. More than that, these yes men would just do whatever Lucas asked without thought to whether or not it was a good idea. For a long time, it seemed like this was the established wisdom; forget the fact that many people actually love the prequels as they are and aren't concerned about what did or didn't happen behind the scenes during their development.

Was this really an issue? Did it even happen? Well, we here at /Film have taken it upon ourselves to get to the bottom of this pervasive attitude.

Read more: The Best Star Wars Books Ever Written

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Nowadays, we may take beloved characters like Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and the child Grogu for granted, but there was once a time when the possibility of Star Wars expanding consistently to smaller screens was rather low — a time in which the galaxy far, far away still sprawled mostly from the mind of a single person, creator George Lucas. He was one month away from concluding what was thought to be its full saga in theaters when, in April 2005 at Celebration III, he announced the production of two brand-new TV shows. One would grow to become The Clone Wars, but the other, a live-action series known as Star Wars: Underworld, never saw the light of day. Let's see why.

Disney initially distanced themselves from George Lucas's vision for Star Wars, but have now shifted their approach to align with his ideas. Lucas believed that television was the future of Star Wars, which has been proven right by the success of shows like The Mandalorian. Despite returning to Star Wars movies, Disney is taking a different approach by releasing standalone films with a two-year gap, giving Lucasfilm ample time for development.

Disney's Star Wars strategy has only changed in the last few years, but George Lucas predicted it almost 20 years ago. After purchasing the franchise in 2012, Disney's initial approach seemed to distance themselves from Lucas, announcing a sequel trilogy he had long claimed would never happen. In addition to rejecting Lucas' story treatments, Disney sought to recapture the original Star Wars trilogy, marketing a return to practical effects over Lucas' CGI-heavy prequel trilogy. Disney also announced a series of standalone movies,...

Star Wars canon has evolved significantly, but the old canon system is still a useful guide for exploring the franchise, offering a clear path to follow in understanding the depths of the Star Wars universe. The old canon hierarchy allows newcomers to begin with the movies, then move on to the TV shows, and finally explore other mediums, such as books and video games, while ensuring clarity on what is considered official canon. While Disney simplified the canon system by rebranding the Expanded Universe as "Legends," the old canon hierarchy still provides a template for understanding the franchise and the relationship between different stories in the Star Wars universe.

Star Wars canon has changed considerably, but the old canon system is still the best way to explore the franchise. With so many stories in every medium, Star Wars has become a trailblazing transmedia franchise that goes far beyond the movies and TV shows.

Long before George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney, he actually considered making a live-action Star Wars TV show of his own. Star Wars: Underworld served as the working title for Lucas’ ambitious project. While very few details about the plot were ever announced, preproduction on the show went a lot further than most people realize. Set between Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, Underworld was meant to act as a bridge between the two trilogies. But due to budget constraints, Star Wars: Underworld was ultimately put on hold in 2010, and then officially canceled in 2012.

Star Wars: Underworld would have primarily taken place in the lower levels of Coruscant, and it would have followed mostly new characters in the Star Wars universe. According to Lucas, around 50 hours (2 seasons) of his planned 100 hour show were scripted. In several ways, the series sounded similar to...

The "Star Wars" galaxy is a big place -- and it's always getting bigger. Ever since Disney purchased Lucasfilm back in October 2012, the company has let loose a flood of new "Star Wars" movies, shows, novels, comics, and video games. The results, as literally anybody on the Internet will tell you, have been somewhat mixed. On the one hand, we've enjoyed all-time great stories such as "Andor," "The Last Jedi" (deal with it), and "Star Wars: Visions." On the other, we've been saddled with "The Rise of Skywalker" and "The Book of Boba Fett." The phrase "ups and downs" doesn't even begin to cut it.

The franchise won't be letting up any time soon, either. Over the next few years, Lucasfilm is set to produce a new slate of movies from James Mangold, Dave Filoni, and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. They'll also be making a fresh push on the video game front,...

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away (it was this galaxy), Ron Moore, a writer on various Star Trek shows and the creator of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, was attached to write a Star Wars TV series – Star Wars: Underworld. However, Moore’s series was set up before Disney bought Lucasfilm, and the sale killed-off the […]

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George Lucas’ Star Wars: Underworld series was one of many projects lost during the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm. The long-in-development live-action series was a source of excitement for many Star Wars fans, who gobbled up new rumors, concept art leaks, and reports of scripts being written. Alas, the project never came to be, but former Star Wars: […]

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Live-action Star Wars TV is a thing now thanks to The Mandalorian, but it could have been part of the franchise more than a decade ago, had George Lucas gotten his way. Lucas, starting around 2004, began assembling scripts for a live-action TV show, known as Star Wars: Underground, that never quite came together. Now, writer Ronald D. Moore has shed new light on the project.

Ronal D. Moore is known for his work on shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica and, more recently, Outlander. During a recent interview, Moore was asked about working on Star Wars: Underworld. First, Moore explained what went into the process to write the scripts.

"I was one of several, there was a bunch of international writers they assembled... we would gather up at Skywalker Ranch once every six to eight weeks, something like that. And we would break stories together, and right...

While fans anxiously await The Mandalorian Season 2’s slated fall premiere (prospective delays notwithstanding), Disney+, the streaming home of the Star Wars series, will soon release something to temporarily sate those Baby Yoda hunger pangs. A new docuseries is set to premiere on the platform—in time for May the 4th—bringing behind-the-scenes footage and new interviews about the process of bringing the serial spinoff phenomenon to life.

Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, as it will be titled, will manifest on Disney+ as an eight-episode documentary series hosted by creator Jon Favreau himself. The series will take shape as a behind-the-scenes showcase of everything that went into the conception of The Mandalorian thus far, debuting never-before-seen footage, behind-the-scenes material, along with roundtable interviews with key personnel.

The debut episode of the series is part of Disney’s quarantined May the 4th Star Wars Day celebration this year, a status it will...

For as many Star Wars projects we'll ever see, there is an untold number of projects that were never fully realized, for various reasons. One such example is the video game Star Wars 1313, which was originally showcased at E3 2012 and was set to put the player in control of a young Boba Fett, making his way through the seedy underworld in a galaxy far, far away. Now, we have a new look at what could have been as an image from the scrapped game has surfaced online.

The image in question was posted to Reddit by user LifeByTheSword. While Reddit is often questionable at best when it comes to leaks, comparing this shot to previously revealed material from the game, it appears to be the genuine article. In it, we see Boba Fett standing on a platform overlooking the underbelly of Coruscant, deep below the planet's surface. The image was shared with the following caption.

The revelation that Rey was Palpatine’s granddaughter in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was surprising for many reasons. For one, it suggested that the Emperor, the most evil being in the galaxy known for his gruesome appearance, had actually had a love life. You might wonder what drove J.J. Abrams and writer Chris Terrio to come up with that idea, but in actual fact, it wasn’t them who came up with it. George Lucas did.

Test footage recently surfaced online for the abandoned Star Wars: Underworld TV series, which was a big pet project of Lucas’ that he developed for years before Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm. The sprawling show would have taken place prior to the Original Trilogy, following various characters from the movies. One of these was Palpatine himself, whose storyline would’ve seen him fall in love with a woman and have his heart broken.

After the mixed reception to the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, fans have often wondered over the past few years what franchise creator George Lucas would’ve done differently. In sharp contrast from the days when everyone complained about the prequels, there’s been increasing talk of folks wanting to see Lucas be invited back to have another crack at the Sw universe in the Disney era. And apparently, Lucasfilm has listened.

This massive news comes our way via The Illuminerdi, who say that George Lucas is returning to Star Wars for the upcoming Cassian Andor TV series that’s headed to Disney Plus. The outlet reveals that Lucas will not only be serving as an executive producer, but will also be a writer on the show. As they note in their piece, this information has been backed up by a separate report from Geek Tyrant, while We Got This Covered...

You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. You also can’t oversee a multi-billion dollar science fiction empire without dropping a few enticing what-ifs along the way. For ‘Star Wars‘ fans, one of the biggest what-ifs has been “Star Wars: Underworld,” a massive live-action series planned by George Lucas back in the early 2000s. Now, thanks to an unearthed batch of footage, fans can at least get a good look at what might’ve been.

Continue reading Here’s The Leaked Test Footage From George Lucas’s Abandoned Live-Action ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ Series at The Playlist.

The past few months have seen the debut of The Mandalorian, the first live-action TV series set within the Star Wars universe, and it couldn’t have been more of a success. The thing is, though, that we could have had this new step for the franchise many years ago. You see, prior to selling the brand to Disney, George Lucas was working on Star Wars: Underworld, a vastly ambitious TV show that never ended up making it to screens.

Fans have obviously been fascinated to find out what this aborted series would’ve been like though and now, for the first time, we have actual test footage and behind the scenes material to set our eyeballs on. YouTube channel Holonet has uploaded the above 10-minute long video, giving us our first look at Underworld, which would have been set in the period between the prequels and the Original Trilogy.

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In an alleged leak, test footage from Lucasfilm’s pre-Disney Star Wars television project, Star Wars: Underworld, has surfaced.

Star Wars: Underworld is a title that evokes what could have been for the Force franchise, planned by George Lucas as the first live-action television series during the few years before Disney’s acquisition – an event that led to the project being tossed into the scrap heap. Now, in a franchise landscape that’s since experienced a Sequel Trilogy, with fans now clamoring for Baby Yoda dolls after The Mandalorian, it appears that footage has surfaced from the Star Wars series that got away!

In what is alleged as a leak, a test scene and complementary behind-the-scenes footage from Star Wars: Underworld has surfaced. While the veracity of the clip’s touted status has yet to be confirmed, the footage is nevertheless impressive. The planned series, which was...

George Lucas's canceled Star Wars: Underworld TV series has had footage leak online. Hardcore Star Wars fans have wondered for a long time what the show was going to look like and now we finally have a pretty solid idea. Technically, the video shown below is test footage for the abandoned series, along with a look behind-the-scenes included. The long-talked about series was first developed in 2005 and then put on hold in 2010 due to finance concerns.

Underworld takes place between the Star Wars prequel and original trilogies, which would show how the Empire came to power. Fifty scripts were prepared and there were plans for 100 episodes, each consisting of 42 minutes. The newly leaked footage takes place on Coruscant as a Rebel spy attempts to steal Imperial plans for what is believed to be a Star Destroyer. The seedy streets of Coruscant are being heavily monitored by Stormtroopers. You can read the footage description below.

Wedge Antilles, otherwise known as Tie SS-2-5 during his time at Skystrike Academy, is a true icon of the Rebel Alliance. So you can imagine our excitement when we glimpsed Denis Lawson’s X-wing pilot back behind the joystick in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

He’s fought off the Empire across Yavin and Endor, but by the time Episode IX rolls around, Wedge Antilles once again takes up arms against galactic tyranny. This time, it’s the so-called Final Order causing a ruckus, and below you’ll find an HD shot of Wedge back in the cockpit courtesy of Star Wars Underworld.

It’s undoubtedly another example of fan service from The Rise of Skywalker – itself a film that panders to the fans, arguably at its own expense – but even from the get-go, it was pretty clear J.J. Abrams and co-writer Chris Terrio wanted Episode IX to...

Jack Beresford Nov 21, 2019

This Han-focused spin-off bridges the gap between the Star Wars Prequel and Original Trilogies, but its journey wasn't all plain sailing…

This Star Wars article contains spoilers.

The idea for a Han Solo prequel existed for more than a decade prior to 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. George Lucas first toyed with the notion in 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. One version of the film’s script featured a 10-year-old orphaned Han Solo who was being raised by Chewbacca. Lucas later planned to feature Han’s first meeting with Chewie and the circumstances that saw Solo win the Millennium Falcon in the scrapped Star Wars: Underworld TV series.

In hindsight, Lucas’ failure to get these projects off the ground was a blessing in disguise. Solo: A Star Wars Story suffered the ignominy of being the first Star Wars film to bomb at the box office,...

Going into The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars fans have many theories about Rey’s heritage. Though The Last Jedi had Kylo Ren tell Daisy Ridley’s heroine that her parents were nobodies, this hasn’t stopped folks from believing there’s still more going on in Rey’s past than we currently know. In fact, one unexpected answer has reared its head recently and here’s a new bit of evidence that might support it.

First of all, let’s talk about Star Wars: Underworld. Earlier this decade, George Lucas was developing it as the first live-action Sw TV show, but it never got off the ground and Disney didn’t resurrect the idea after taking over Lucasfilm. God of War creator Cory Balrog has given us an insight into one thing Underworld would have explored, though: a surprisingly sympathetic origin for Emperor Palpatine.

Here’s how Balrog put...

We've already known that Lucasfilm has been developing been working on a live-action TV series for years. We figured that series, Star Wars: Underworld, would eventually end up being developed at Disney. It was confirmed that Disney was working on one live-action series that may or may not have been Star Wars: Underworld, but now Disney CEO Bob Iger has revealed that they are working on more than one!

Fresh off the news that Game of Thrones series creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, are set to write and produce a new series of Star Wars films. Bob Iger told investors that they are developing a few Star Wars series' for their upcoming streaming service:

"We are developing not just one, but a few Star Wars series specifically for the Disney direct to consumer app. We've mentioned that and we are close to being able to reveal at least one...

Rob Leane Nov 13, 2017

A live-action Star Wars TV series is on the way! Let’s look back at Underworld, the last attempt to get one made...

Last Friday was an exiting day for Star Wars fans, with UK followers of that galaxy far, far away waking up to some massive news. While we were sleeping, Disney chief Bob Iger announced a new trilogy of Star Wars films and a live-action Star Wars TV series.

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Iger’s announcement included some details about the new movie trilogy (The Last Jedi’s Rian Johnson is helming it, with the story being totally separate to the Skywalker-centric ‘episode’ films), but the TV project was left utterly mysterious. All the fans were told is that the live-action TV series will be released...

Yesterday we learned that Lucasfilm and director Rian Johnson was going to develop a whole new trilogy of Star Wars films completely separate from the Skywalker saga. This new saga is said to "introduce new characters from a corner of the galaxy that Star Wars lore has never before explored."

If that's not exciting enough, Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced that there is a live-action Star Wars TV series currently in development! This is being developed for Disney's new streaming service. 

There are no details on what the series will entail, but I really hope that it's the Star Wars: Underworld project that George Lucas and his team were developing for Lucasfilm before Disney bought them up. 

There are said to be over 100 completed scripts of a 400 episode series that are ready to shoot when and if Lucasfilm ever decided to develop them further. Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy previously...

Is a popular prequel-era Jedi about to be introduced on the big screen in Han Solo: A Star Wars Story? New rumors suggest as much. Though there isn't a confirmation from LucasFilm and Disney. And this particular Jedi's name, if participating, has been altered from its original form.

Han Solo was a no show at Star Wars Celebration last weekend, even though many fans expected that the first teaser trailer would be shown. But we didn't even get a first look at Alden Ehrenreich in costume. There was a definite void felt in the Anthology arena. One that Making Star Wars is helping to fill this afternoon with news of a previously unannounced character that will show up in the second Star Wars Story.

Msw claims that while attending Star Wars Celebration, a piece of paper was placed in front of them containing the words 'Red Cup' which is the...

Right off the top, we need to make it very clear that this may not mean anything, but at the same time, this could also potentially be something for Star Wars fans to get excited about. But only maybe. Recently, an IMDb page for the proposed Star Wars: Underworld TV show wound up on Reddit and interestingly enough, it actually lists a premiere date for the series. So, is Lucasfilm actually planning on bringing Star Wars: Underworld to the small screen in 2018?

As many Star Wars fans may know, Star Wars: Underworld, a live-action series that would have taken place between the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: A New Hope, was originally conceived back in 2005 by George Lucas. But, the series was ultimately shelved for budgetary reasons. Now, the IMDb page for the series has a premiere date listed as December 15, 2018. On the one hand,...