What It Was Prefer to Write on George Lucas’ Unproduced Star Wars Present

March 2025 has changed into the unofficial Discuss About Star Wars Underworld Month. Days after Star Wars producer Rick McCallum discussed the mythical, unproduced show, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, and For All Mankind writer/producer Ronald D. Moore spoke about what it was prefer to be one of many present’s writers.

Showing on The Sackhoff Show (hosted by Bo-Katan herself, Katee Sackhoff), Moore talked about being known as by George Lucas to jot down on what Lucas thought a live-action Star Wars present may very well be. Right here’s the clip.

“Galactica was winding down. Caprica was beginning proper round that interval. I obtained a name that George Lucas needs to fulfill with [me] a few doable collection,” Moore mentioned. “So I meet with George … and producer Rick McCallum, and at that time George wished to do a live-action Star Wars TV collection … What he wished to do is he wished to assemble a gaggle of writers collectively, form of a world group of writers. So I used to be one of many People and there have been some from the UK and from Australia [and] New Zealand, and he would carry us collectively up at Skywalker Ranch for like a protracted weekend … We’d go for these lengthy weekends, or every week or one thing, at a time with George in a convention room at Skywalker Ranch and break these tales. Then we might go off for like one other six weeks out by ourselves, write the scripts, then regather, discuss notes, do one other group of scripts.”

“This went on for like a 12 months or two or one thing,” Moore continued. “We’d simply collect, break up, collect, break and … we wrote one thing like, I believe, 48 or 50 episodes … It’s positively within the 40s … And after we obtained to that time, George mentioned, ‘Okay, that’s sufficient.’ And he’s then he wished to simply take these scripts and he was simply gonna go shoot them on his dime … In George’s thoughts, it was, ‘As soon as I’ve produced it, I’m simply gonna then take it to a community and go ‘Take it or depart it. That is what it’s. I don’t care what your notes are, I don’t care what your ideas are, it’s finished. Would you like it?’”

This, nevertheless, is the place McCallum’s a part of the story got here in. Lucas’ thought was a terrific thought in principle however the present was simply so prohibitively costly, Lucas by no means obtained round to creating it. Then, in fact, he bought Lucasfilm, and Star Wars, to Disney, and that was that.

Nonetheless, Moore says he personally wrote two of the scripts and treasures the expertise, particularly attending to argue about Star Wars with the creator himself. “At a sure level, you recover from your awe and now you’re simply in a author’s room and he’s telling you one thing about Darth Vader that doesn’t make sense,” Moore mentioned, earlier than breaking right into a spot-on Lucas impression. “You’re similar to ‘Oh my God, what am I doing? The place am I?’ You simply form of neglect and now you’re simply at story convention having an argument.”

Watch the complete clip above and due to Jedi News for the heads up.

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