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Rick McCallum Reveals Details of Scrapped Star Wars: Underworld Series

Tom Chang

12d ago· 5 min readen

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Producer Rick McCallum reflects on the scrapped Star Wars: Underworld series, a proposed live-action TV show that was in development before Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm. McCallum discusses the ambitious scope of the project, which would have explored the criminal underworld of Coruscant, and how the series never came to fruition after the Disney purchase shifted Lucasfilm's priorities.

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Bleeding CoolRick McCallum Reveals Details of Scrapped Star Wars: Underworld Seriesbleedingcool.com

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The show was going to be incredibly dark and adult-oriented, exploring the criminal elements of the Star Wars universe in a way we'd never seen before.

We had over 60 scripts written and ready to go. It was the most ambitious television project ever conceived at that time.

When Disney bought Lucasfilm, everything changed. The focus shifted to the sequel trilogy, and Underworld was unfortunately left behind.

George had this vision of showing the gritty, dangerous side of the galaxy that the films could only hint at.

It's one of the great 'what ifs' of Star Wars history. The material we developed was extraordinary.

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Rick McCallum's relationship with George Lucas spans over 30 years, since working with him on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and has become a staple of his Lucasfilm empire, which includes his other pride and joy of a franchise in Star Wars. The two

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