The planned live-action Star Wars TV drama set in that galaxy far, far away now has a name. George Lucas' planned hour long TV drama will be called Star Wars Underworld.
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Star Wars producer Rick McCallum revealed the title of the planned TV drama to IGN as Star Wars Underworld.
He told IGN that, as previously reported, the special effect required to make the show a reality are still too prohibitively costly for Lucasfilm.
Whereas the movies were made for $100 million each, the Star Wars Underworld episodes would have to be produced for around $5 million each. As previously reported there is at least 50 episodic scripts that have already been written.
To produce them currently, would however cost much more than $5 million per episode due to the extensive special effects needed to make the show, set in the Star Wars universe between Episode III and Episode IV authentically look like the world of the films.
''The scripts take place between Episodes III and IV," Rick McCallum told IGN. "It's that twenty-year period when Luke is growing up. It's not about Luke, but it's about that period when the Empire is really trying to take things forward. It's called Underworld - that's the working title - and it's underneath what's going on: the criminals and the gangs that are running everything.''
''It's really a budget thing. How do we get it down. We're trying to put the same effects and technology from those two-hour films, into one-hour episodes, and do it every week for $5 million an episode.''
''We have fifty unbelievable scripts,'' says Rick McCallum who calls the scripts ''timeless''.
''Each episode is bigger than any of the prequels were. They're complex, they're dark; they're adult. But right now, technologically, there's no way we can do them for the kind of $5 million mark which is the maximum we can do.''
''That's because there's so much digital animation, because we have so many digital characters. So I think the idea is we'll just hold off; we'll wait; see if there are any major breakthroughs in the next year or two and just see what's going to happen.''
