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Star Wars: Underworld Test Footage (2010 canceled TV show)
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A Star Wars show that takes place entirely in the depths of Coruscant would be awesome, especially if for the entire first season they don't confirm when it's happening. Then you watch the last episode and the main protagonist finally makes it up to the surface either by getting a job there or working directly with a senator of some sort, only to realize that the show takes place during the Old Republic.
God damn.
God damn.
Rogue One was John Knoll's pet project and got shot down by George before he pitched it again after the sale. Saw Gerrera was developed for the show though, before ultimately being introduced in Clone Wars instead, so I wouldn't be surprised if they introduced other elements from the show to pad out Knoll's concept. Lots of stuff has popped up in other projects over the years.
A idea of a seedy Blade Runner-esque underworld was revisited in Rogue One. It's one of my favourite locations from the new films and how Coruscant should have looked and felt in the prequels.
Also in Final Fantasy VII RemakeA idea of a seedy Blade Runner-esque underworld was revisited in Rogue One. It's one of my favourite locations from the new films and how Coruscant should have looked and felt in the prequels.
the camera being so swoopy and all the rack-zoom/focus is bothering me, feels preetty low-rent compared to what we ended up with in the mandalorian etc.
Also, pick a goddamn zoom level, jesus. I felt like Lucielle 2 getting vertigo while watching this.
Also, pick a goddamn zoom level, jesus. I felt like Lucielle 2 getting vertigo while watching this.
Yeah, def. BSG influences in there, but at least they really only did that in outer space and you know, not in a 5x5 ft space.
I like the visual style, at least. Would be cool to see this look adopted into something new. Maybe a location Mando can lock into?
1313 was pretty dang influencal despite not being madeA idea of a seedy Blade Runner-esque underworld was revisited in Rogue One. It's one of my favourite locations from the new films and how Coruscant should have looked and felt in the prequels.
ugh I'm kind of over Palpatine. Dude got like 6 (or 9) films dedicated to his scheming.
Yeah it looks nothing like Star Wars to me. Feels like a bad bladerunner knock off. So glad Lucas isnt on Star Wars anymore.
Incredible tech for the time. At this point I would love this series to happen just to get more batshit Lucas ideas out there and anybody who says they DON'T wanna see Sheev fuck is a liar
Lol,
excellent writers that are phoning that shit in clearly.
Even in 2010 that's some shite clichéd to hell hack writing.
Of course if the Emperor is bad it's because he was wronged by a devilish femoid
I would give anything for a show about the criminal underworld where it is Star Wars meets blade runner in the bowels of Coruscant ...ughhhhhh
Not a fan of the look of it. And personally speaking, never been a fan of the Coruscant parts of the PT. Just feels like any old futuristic cyberpunk city and for me, that's fine for Blade Runner but feels too "modern" for SW. A problem I had with the PT was some of the more slick/sleek vehicle designs. Some of those hover vehicles look like sci-fi takes on modern cars, lights and all. I'm sure there are fans that would've loved it, but I'm not among them. The Mandelorian is more my style (less cyberpunk metropolis, more lived-in, well worn podunk planets with scattered outposts, small villages and lots of strange and fascinating aliens). When I want my cyberpunk itch to be scratched, I stick with both Blade Runners, and maybe even the Super Mario Bros movie (hehehe).
This is crazy impressive for decade-old test footage. Bob Iger himself looked into Underworld during the buyout and then nailed the coffin shut taking the tie-in 1313 with it. Some elements still managed to show up elsewhere (1313 should be in CW S07) but yeah, Disney is the death of art.
Edit: This proof of concept for Ron Moore´s 2 part ep. He rebooted Battlestar Galactica. Nice to have some visuals for it:
Cory Barlog even got to read the script a few years ago. They now lie around in storage.
Edit: This proof of concept for Ron Moore´s 2 part ep. He rebooted Battlestar Galactica. Nice to have some visuals for it:
Cory Barlog even got to read the script a few years ago. They now lie around in storage.
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Considering it apparently gave Sheev a "sympathetic" incel backstory, I'm not exactly about to decry this show getting shitcanned as "the death of art".
And I'm not really feeling what people are loving here. Sure, it looks expensive, but it looks at least as bad. I get approximately all of the worst prequel vibes possible.
I never liked Disney as a company, even as a kid WhiteRabbitEXE. They drained the experimentation out of SW, outside of the current remake toon wave that lacks souls and whatnot. I can like a lot of the things they do with Marvel and still see that they are a bad fit for SW. Obligatory Fuck Bob Iger remark [here].
The behind-the-scenes part of the footage is the real deal. A pure green screen production. Totally George! The PT didn´t quite work due to him chasing tech first of all (they still left a huge mark on the industry) but the directorial side of the equation was coved here.
Nice editorializing with the incel remark though. The only thing we know about the script is that the writer has done good stuff before and that Mr. GoW liked it. I could trash the remarks George made about the world of the Midichlorians in his E7-9 but the then final 3 part arc of CW was a very well-received highlight of the show and set all of that up. Midichlorians turned out to be a good idea! Seeing young Sheev wrestle with emotions, why not. Darth Plagueis equally showed his human side and that books sells to this day. He races speeders as a teen and young adult in that one. Him shagging a femme fatale back then makes total sense.
I stand by what I said. This was filled with potential and the YT comments are correct that this looks like 24 or The Shield with how they shot it. Read the attached google doc. What could have been: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdxDngZpm6acDGOjXTmj6YeFSMO9aI2fNnAc1lL5HOY/edit
Just make a comic/book type deal out of this Disney. Having all of this work sit in the Raiders warehouse has bugged me for a full decade.
This arc where Palps got his new name btw.
The behind-the-scenes part of the footage is the real deal. A pure green screen production. Totally George! The PT didn´t quite work due to him chasing tech first of all (they still left a huge mark on the industry) but the directorial side of the equation was coved here.
Nice editorializing with the incel remark though. The only thing we know about the script is that the writer has done good stuff before and that Mr. GoW liked it. I could trash the remarks George made about the world of the Midichlorians in his E7-9 but the then final 3 part arc of CW was a very well-received highlight of the show and set all of that up. Midichlorians turned out to be a good idea! Seeing young Sheev wrestle with emotions, why not. Darth Plagueis equally showed his human side and that books sells to this day. He races speeders as a teen and young adult in that one. Him shagging a femme fatale back then makes total sense.
I stand by what I said. This was filled with potential and the YT comments are correct that this looks like 24 or The Shield with how they shot it. Read the attached google doc. What could have been: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DdxDngZpm6acDGOjXTmj6YeFSMO9aI2fNnAc1lL5HOY/edit
Just make a comic/book type deal out of this Disney. Having all of this work sit in the Raiders warehouse has bugged me for a full decade.
This arc where Palps got his new name btw.
People being very harsh on test footage which the actual production would have looked almost nothing like. It's proof of concept and such to show off the ideas, the special effects are nowhere near what we would see, the costumes, actors, everything would be totally different when and if it went into production.
Yeah it's probably a big reason Mando exists they never stopped trying to get the cost down and the Unreal tech was the missing piece. I kind of hope that the Cassian series is basically this. No reason he has to be the sole focus give me more Coruscant and this vibe with what's salvageable from George's scripts. Just call it "Rebellion" starring Diego Luna or something.
Pretty impressive with how much of the set was green screen, especially being able to have live renders (or prerendered footage or whatever they are using) to reference in the cameras like that back in 2010.
As for the tone, I could see the new Cassian Andor show being similar since that is the type of spy stuff he was doing at the beginning of Rogue One.
As for the tone, I could see the new Cassian Andor show being similar since that is the type of spy stuff he was doing at the beginning of Rogue One.
Yeah. Didn't like it back in AotC and wasn't thrilled about Underworld. I mean, that whole Death Sticks scene at the club, that's like part dance club, part sports bar, ALL STUPID:
TBH though, it perfectly nails a lot of the problems of George's prior live action productions, so I think this is pretty representative.
It felt like the 90s Star Wars video games IMO. Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, etc.