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Daniel Noa

@danielnoa.bsky.social

I work in TV Marketing and I have a podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/young-indy-pod Also made some films: https://danielnoa.portfolio.site

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The Star Wars Underworld@theswu.bsky.social · 2y ago

During a new interview with the Young Indy Chroniclers podcast, Rick McCallum provided new details about the never-produced ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ series: 👉 It was budgeted to cost $40 million per episode 👉 60 scripts were written 👉 He describes the series as “dark”, “sexy”, and “violent”

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StarWars@starwars.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy · 2y ago

George Lucas’ Scrapped Star Wars Show Would’ve Cost BIllions of Dollars Producer Rick McCallu... https://gizmodo.com/george-lucas-scrapped-star-wars-show-underworld-2000573363 #Television #Rick #McCallum #Star #Wars #Star #Wars #Underworld Event Attributes

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, the most wonderful writers in the world on it. And again, we created exactly the same experience for everybody at [Skywalker] Ranch, and again just a phenomenal group of talent.” “And these were dark. They were sexy, they were violent, they were just absolutely wonderful. Wonderful, complicated, challenging. I mean, it would have blown up the whole _Star Wars_ universe and Disney definitely would have never offered George to buy it [laughs]. But it’s one of the great disappointments of our life. But the problem was each episode was bigger than the films, so the lowest I could get it down to with the technology that existed then was about 40 million an episode.” Even in today’s world, probably 30 years after McCallum budgeted things out, $40 million an episode is still a lot. Most of the bigger shows that you can think of— _Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead_ , etc.—usually cost between $10 million and $20 million an episode. And that’s still considered very high. Some of the most expensive have happened recently, with Netflix rumored to have spent close to $30 million per episode on the new _Stranger Things_ and Amazon reportedly spending almost $60 million each on _Rings of Power_. So for a big _Star Wars_ show, $40 million is not out of the question today, but it was certainly out of the question then. (Also, _The Mandalorian_ costs significantly less than that.) For more on _Star Wars Underworld_ , check out this piece we wrote a few years back. It shows test footage McCallum commissioned to help sell the show to TV networks. It didn’t work out, but it’s a cool bit of trivia and history, just like this. > Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

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WookieeNews@wookieenews.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rick McCallum da nuevos detalles sobre la cancelada Star Wars: Underworld: “Teníamos sobre 60 guiones, de tercer borrador, de los mejores guionistas del mundo. [...] El problema era que, con la tecnología existente entonces, el coste mínimo era de 40M de dólares por episodio.”

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Cosmic Marvel@dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 2y ago

New details on George Lucas’ canceled ‘STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD’ show: • Costs $40M per episode • 60 scripts were nearly complete • Scrapped because it was too expensive • They wanted John Williams to score all the episodes

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Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2y ago

Details on George Lucas' canceled 'Star Wars: Underworld' • 60 scripts were nearly complete • Dark, sexy, & more violent than anything prior • Cost $40M per ep • They wanted John Williams to score it • Scrapped for being too expensive "Disney definitely wouldn't have offered to buy [it] after"

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Star Wars Holocron@swholocron.bsky.social · 2y ago

Details about George Lucas’ unmade STAR WARS: UNDERWORLD series have been revealed by producer Rick McCallum • Scripts for 60 episodes were completed • Episodes were dark, sexy & more violent than any prior Star Wars project • Each episode would’ve had a budget over $40 mil

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Daniel Noa@danielnoa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Did 12 year old me ever think he was going to get to have a 3 hour conversation with Rick McCallum? No he did not. Still doesn’t feel real. Part 2 drops Thursday!

Phil Szostak@philszostak.bsky.social · 2y ago

17 years ago today, I was hired by #StarWars prequel producer Rick McCallum to run George Lucas’ art department. Five films, six books, and a million other TV, game, comic, etc projects later, I couldn’t be more excited for what the future holds. Thanks for all of your support along the way!

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David A. Goodman@davidagoodman.bsky.social · 2y ago

My friend Michael Aronson who is editorial page editor of the NY Daily News asked if I wanted to write about the fires. It was very cathartic for me. www.nydailynews.com/2025/01/13/a...

A home of decades gone in a moment: Life and loss in Pacific Palisades

The day before it burned down, I was worried about losing my house. Not because of a looming natural disaster, but a looming professional one; I hadn’t worked in a while and prospects were grim. Bu…

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