It seems like the live-action television series based around Star Wars might have a name now. I’m not sure I like the name, but it’s a name nonetheless.
Rick McCallum
Rick McCallum, one of George Lucas‘s closest men and often a collaborator on his projects, has recently been interviewed, giving the name of the live-action Star Wars TV series that is currently in development. The title, even though it immediately suggested vampires and werewolves to me, might still turn out to be quite all right. It’s going to be called Star Wars: Underworld.
The show has previously been described as a sci-fi drama more like The Godfather than Return of the Jedi, what with bounty hunters, mob bosses and the like being in the focus. It takes place in the twenty year period between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, during which period Luke Skywalker is growing up.
Basically, it is like The Godfather; it’s the Empire slowly building up its power base around the galaxy, what happens in Coruscant, which is the major capital, and it’s a group of underground bosses who live there and control drugs, prostitution.
McCallum says that there are currently 50 scripts, each of them a one-hour show “bigger than any of the prequels were”. We’re still a couple of years off from this show, which I don’t expect to see until 2016 or 2017. Depending on the amount of creative input from George Lucas (please don’t mess this up, please don’t mess this up, please don’t mess this up), this could really become a great show!
(via Collider, Nerd Bastards)