George Lucas’ Scrapped Star Wars Show Would’ve Cost BIllions of Dollars

In the world of Star Wars, one of the biggest “what ifs?” is Star Wars Underworld. That was the name given to a television show George Lucas and a team at Lucasfilm worked on for years before ultimately scrapping it. We’ve always heard that there were dozens of scripts written for the show, which would’ve been set on Coruscant, showing a whole new side of a galaxy far, far, away, but little is known beyond that. In a new interview though, Rick McCallum, who was George Lucas’ producer at the time, shared some new details about the long-lost (but never forgotten) project. One of the biggest is that McCallum actually tried to budget out what the show could cost and the lowest he ever got it to was $40 million per episode. Forty million times 60 episodes equals $2.4 billion. No wonder no one wanted to make it. But, it sounds great. Here’s McCallum thanks to the Young Indy Chronicles podcast. “I think we had over 60 scripts. Third-draft scripts,” McCallum says in the above clip. “Again, t ... Read full article.