Details about George Lucas' plans to make Star Wars: Underworld, his ambitious, expansive, but ultimately unrealised plan to bring his creation to the small screen have leaked out through the years. Now Battlestar Galactica and Outlander's Ronald D. Moore has revealed to Collider that he was part of the team putting the scripts together.
“I was one of several, there was a bunch of international writers they assembled," Moore says. "We would gather up at Skywalker Ranch once every six to eight weeks, something like that. And we would break stories together, and right after we’d go off and write some drafts and bring ‘em back, and George and we would sit down and critique them, and then do another draft and break more stories...
"It was great! It was a ball, it was a lot of fun. It didn’t happen ultimately, we wrote I’d say somewhere in the 40-something, 48 scripts, something like that. the theory was George wanted to write all the scripts and get ‘em all done and then he was gonna go off and figure out how to produce them, because he wanted to do a lot of cutting edge technological stuff with CG and virtual sets and so on. And so he had a whole new thing he wanted to accomplish. And what happened was, you know, we wrote the scripts and then George said, 'OK, this is enough for now, and then I’ll get back to you. I want to look into all the production things.' And then time went by and like a year or something after that is when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney."
Obviously, you know what happened next with the show, which is nothing (though those scripts are still out there). For more from Moore, head to Collider.