In a new interview with the Young Indy Chronicles podcast, producer Rick McCallum has shared more details about the shelved Star Wars: Underworld TV series saying he tried to work out a budget for the show, and the lowest he ever got was $40 million per episode.
“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.”
Perhaps it’s no surprise the show never made it to air, since $40 million per episode is a huge amount of money, especially when you consider an episode of the Game of Thrones, The Last of Us, etc. costs between $10 million and $20 million per episode.
