Back in March I talked about how there was a live-action Star Wars television show called Star Wars: Underground that was being discussed. This had been a plan for Lucasfilm for a while, but after Disney bought the company from George Lucas, the show fell in to limbo, along with a highly-anticipated video game called Star Wars 1313. Recently, SlashFilm sat down with Kathleen Kennedy to ask her whatever became of these once hot rumors, and here's what she had to say:
"No, interestingly enough, that's 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. And there was 1313 the game, where there was..."
...during the response she was giving during the interview at this point, Slashfilm tells her how incredible the concept art for the video game was that was released online. She continued:
"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: Underground was first announced at Star Wars Celebration III back in 2005. George Lucas himself wrote close to 100 episodes for the idea, planning on it having a 400 episode run (my guess is that at least 200 of these episodes would be "Special Editions" that would be repeats that he had gone back to tweak, inserting Jar Jar Binks or Ewoks or something). He was going to film it in state-of-the-art studios that he was going to build on his own property, and it was supposed to premier in 2009. Rumor has it that his neighbors were extremely pissed at this idea, fearing all of the noise and congestion that would have invaded their neighborhood. The idea was scrapped, and never saw the light of day. Of course, the show was never really supposed to see "the light of day" because it actually dealt with the seedy underground workings that took place of the capital planet of Coruscant, taking on a more "noir tone" compared to the movies.
Star Wars 1313 was also to take place on Coruscant, more specifically on Level 1313 of the planet. It was to follow an unnamed bounty hunter that explored the underbelly of the planet. It was rumored that the bounty hunter would later be revealed to be Boba Fett during his early years as a bounty hunter, but after Disney bought the rights to Lucasfilm, the video game got scrapped. So will the video game get new life? The trademark for Star Wars 1313 has expired, but Level 1313 still exists in the new canon, so if it does get made, it might keep the same concept with just a simple name change.
What do you think? Look, the reason why I'm so excited for the new movie to come out is because I haven't seen a Star Wars film in the theaters in years. I'm also going to get to see the original characters again in a new story for the first time in 30 years. The thing that worries me is "over-saturation." There have already been two animated television shows made for Star Wars, a slew of video games, and Disney is planning on releasing a new Star Wars film every year going forward, Between that and all of the promotional tie-in's that are sure to go along with everything (while watching a one-hour program the other night, I think all but two commercials had some sort of mention of Star Wars!), are people going to get tired of the franchise? I hope not, but adding a live-action television series to the story might just do it for people. Maybe they can rename it Marvel: Agents of Star Wars.
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