In the world ofStar Wars, one of the biggest what ifs?
Forty million times 60 episodes equals $2.4 billion.
No wonder no one wanted to make it.
A still from test footage for Star Wars Underworld.Image: Stargate Studios
But, it sounds great.
Heres McCallum thanks to theYoung Indy Chroniclespodcast.
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 these were dark.
They were sexy, they were violent, they were just absolutely wonderful.
Wonderful, complicated, challenging.
But its one of the great disappointments of our life.
(Also,The Mandaloriancosts significantly less than that.)
For more onStar 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 didnt work out, but its a cool bit of trivia and history, just like this.
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