A New Hope For Star Wars: Underworld and Star Wars: 1313?
According to Slashfilm‘s Peter Sciretta, who recently had a chat with Kathleen Kennedy at the Star Wars: The Force Awakens press junket over the weekend, two former Lucasfilm projects that were in the works prior to the Disney acquisition are still not completely off the table.
As Peter wondered out loud what ever happened to the live-action Star Wars television series that George Lucas was developing, Kennedy surprisingly graced him with a response on the subject.
When asked what was to happen to those hundred or so Star Wars: Underworld scripts sitting on a shelf in Lucasfilm headquarters and if they were gone for good, here is how Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy responded:
“No. No, interestingly enough, thats an area we’ve spent a lot of time, reading through the material that he developed is something we very much would like to explore.”
When Lucas was developing the series back in 2005, the project had the working title Star Wars: Underworld. Reportedly, Lucas had hoped to do 400 episodes of the show, and even had 100 episodes fully-written. The show was originally being planned to air on premium cable, and was described by prequel producer Rick McCallum as “Deadwood” in space and even went as far as to equate its noir-like vibe to that of The Godfather.
After many years in development hell, and the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney, it seemed that this show might be a distant memory locked away in some Disney vault to never see the light of day. However, with rumors of a possible Netflix series in development, one does tend to wonder if this series may not be out the window after all.
Kennedy also even brought up the Star Wars: 1313 game that was also in development at the time of the Disney buyout. Here’s what she had to say regarding the game and its previously released concept art:
“Unbelievable. So our attitude is, we don’t want to throw any of that stuff away. It’s gold. And it’s something we’re spending a lot of time looking at, pouring through, discussing, and we may very well develop those things further. We definitely want to.”
Star Wars: 1313, what was to be the first M-rated video game in the Star Wars franchise, was first announced at E3 2012 and was actually developed enough to have a playable demo that featured an unidentified bounty hunter navigating the underworld city of Level 1313 of Coruscant. Supposedly, the game was secretly about the early years of bounty hunter Boba Fett. When Disney acquired Lucasfilm, they ceased development on the game and let the Star Wars: 1313 trademark lapse at the end of 2013.
It’s interesting that they are not letting these concepts go to waste. But how will this game turn up in the future of the Star Wars canon? Will the original game get the green light to continue development? Will aspects of the game be pulled over into another game? Will we see a lot of these concepts in the rumored upcoming Boba Fett anthology film?
The game and the show seem to have been shooting for a similar style and feel. Maybe we’ll even see the two blended together in some way in another medium. Time will tell, but it’s good to know that there’s hope for some of Pre-Disney Lucasfilm’s unfinished yet highly anticipated projects.
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Jordan Pate is Co-Lead Editor and Senior Writer for Star Wars News Net, of which he is also a member of the book and comic review team. He loves all things Star Wars, but when he's not spending time in the galaxy far far away, he might be found in our own galaxy hanging out in Gotham City or at 1407 Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center, NY.
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the obvious suggestion would be to take some these ideas and blend them into the planned boba fett/bounty hunter spin off film.
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I am a little spent on this time period so I would rather see a show set during the sequel trilogy and if they want to make a game how about a KOTOR reboot (sequel?)
When EA got the license to make Star Wars games, they announced three projects. Battlefront from DICE, from Visceral Games, and from BioWare.
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I’m excited for Viceral’s project. Wasn’t too excited for Battlefront and it was missing a few things so I didn’t purchase it. Battlefront was for casual gamers, so make the games following Batflefront more towards the hardcore gamers.
Would love a KOTOR reboot personally. I’m a console player so I’ve never played the games on PC. If not the same game, a game that deals with the old Republic at least. We need to explore that area of the universe and make it Canon. And while we’re at it, Darth Bane is canon so why not introduce us to him and how he came up with the rule of two? Would work well in a game or show. Show us why he had to institute that law.
I am so glad Kathleen Kennedy is at the helm. She’s going to navigate this ship into some truly amazing places. She already is.
If these two come out, then Disney won’t ever hear me complain about no more pequel stuff. Cause this is AWESOME!
Excited for the news. I hope these projects stay in the medium in which they were intended to. I love Star Wars, but personally, bring it over to live action TV and video games too. Star Wars 1313 was a great idea of a game and looked great and the possibility of a possible 400 show Star Wars sounds exciting. So much they could explore in both and the idea of tuning in weekly to a Star Wars show on TV is exciting! Star Wars on TV!! Who would have thought? Bring it back!
I’d rather Underworld be on Netflix.
I just about had a heart attack. I was devastated when 1313 was cancelled, now the hype is coming back whether I want the hype or not.
Yeah, I wish they would make up their minds about what the fuck is happening about this thing.
Apparently it’s hard for them to decide whether or not they want to take even more money from our willing wallets.
Ha! Wish we got this rather than Battlefront.
Who were the guys in the demo they released years ago? Obviously neither of them were Fett. Did they just drop them from the game?
Think about it. Battlefront comes first to start the hype. Probably TFA maps to come later. Then the Hans Solo movie + Visceral Han Solo Game. Most probably a Boba Fett movie + Boba Fett game. I personally think they’ll also tackle Old Republic too. Am sure this’ll get a game as well. Good times ahead !!
Not sure if they will follow your formula, but I would welcome it. I think they should do new stories for TV and video games. They can create a game where we can play as either Boba Fett and Han Solo like you suggested, but I believe that it would be a wasted opportunity if they don’t introduce us to other characters. I love your idea of the Old Republic. That is an era of Star Wars that I hope they tackle for sure. Fingers crossed for good and exciting news in the months to come.
Hope it means we get another good flight simulator shoot em up for Rogue One.
Get that Maul game started up again too pleasethankyoubye
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Personally i don’t like any of these. It Star Wars and we good TV shows about criminals. Yeah that end well. Well hopefully it will be just comic or something nothing big.
And game great another FPS that is what everyone wants. I want focus on Jedi in game. There is already Battlefront for these who want gunplay.
I’m down for these to get revivals as long as they stick with a Solo or Fett game. Very cool concepts. What I never understood the love for were the Old Republic games. Somehow set thousands of years before the PT and OT but have the same technology? Go back a thousand years today and what do we have? Absolutely Nothing. Those cut scenes were cool but if the story doesn’t involve a Skywalker or some sort of familiar beat then count me out.
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Dude, it doesn’t have to mirror our reality entirely. I like to think of it as “their advancement speed is WAAAYYYY slower than our own”.
As Eric Foreman put it, “It’s a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Look, either you buy it, or you don’t!”
Nah, They are way more advanced. Humans are like maybe 250,000 years old and the most we done was land a few people on the moon and sent out some probes. Only in the last half century too.
Advanced enough to have spaceships and hyperdrive and lightsabers and such but not enough where it drastically changes over thousands of years? Their engineers are super lazy! I buy into it, but there can be the existence of a grand canyon sized plot hole.
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After many years in development hell, and the 2012 acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney, it seemed that this show might be a distant memory locked away in some Disney vault to never see the light of day. However, with rumors of a possible Netflix series in development, one does tend to wonder if this series may not be out the window after all.
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Either this is the Boba Fett movie, or they’re gonna make a Boba Fett Net-series… OOOOOO
No please just make s series set between post Jedi and pre TFA. No more origin stories it’s boring. Move forward in the timeline. Boba fett game would be cool if it was made like the old game bounty hunter that was really good. What happened to that visceral Han solo project?
I still want the aborted Wookiee game!