I hope ideas and concepts of this gets revitalized and recycled in the future.” As io9 pointed out with the recent “leak,” spending millions per episode on “genre” series wasn’t a thing back then, but is now after the success of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, and the several Marvel and Star Wars Disney+ shows. “This sh*t sounds like a live-action Clone Wars set in the rebel era. One Reddit user commented on how similar the two series would have been, which makes Star Wars Underworld an interesting concept.

It’s hard to do that and have them look the same.” He also revealed that the show would focus more “about the entertainment industry.” The test footage’s tone, which is dark and “gritty,” was also on purpose. “I’m trying to take Star Wars, which was a $50-million-an-hour adventure, and do it for $2 million an hour. “This series is a test run for the live-action series I’m working on,” Lucas said, according to io9. And as Lucas said in a press event for the series in 2008, it was really a trial run for Star Wars Underworld. The feature film premiered in 2008, and the series went on to run for six seasons from 2008 - 2013. But we have to figure out how to make it at about a tenth of the cost of the features, because its television.” Back in 2008, Lucas was planning to use ‘The Clone Wars’ as a ‘test run’ for ‘Star Wars Underworld’īut, while Lucas worked on Star Wars Underworld, he was also creating The Clone Wars with Dave Filoni. “Right now, it looks like the Star Wars features. “We are looking for a different technology that we can use, that will make it economically feasible to shoot the show,” he said.

But in an interview with G4’s Attack of the Show in 2011, Lucas said “ It sits on the shelf” with 50 hours of footage already.

Io9 reports that George Lucas worked on the show from 2005 until around 2012 and had 50 scripts.

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