Friday 31 January 2020

Star Wars: Underworld

As most of you are aware Lucasfilm and Disney have wowed us all with their Disney+ TV show The Mandalorian, The first Star Wars live action TV show has been a massive hit and we have more of that plus the Kenobi and Cassian Andor shows to come. What a lot of people are unaware of is that George Lucas always wanted to a create a TV show in the Star Wars universe and had plans for one called Star Wars: Underworld.

The following test footage made in 2010 has suddenly become available and also has a making of segment.


The footage seems to validate the rumours that the show was supposed to take place in the seedy depths of Coruscant. All of this was planned pre-Disney and George apparently wanted to run 100 episodes at one hour each. The project ultimately got cancelled because at the time it was just deemed too expensive to make.

Who knows what this would have been like but I am so glad that this has seen the light of day and we can all see what might have been and how advanced the techniques were even back then.


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