Via Screenrant.com:

A live-action Star Wars TV series is on the way – will it see Disney reviving George Lucas’ unused Star Wars: Underworld concept? The idea for Underworld dates all the way back to 2005, just after Revenge of the Sith was released. In the years after the prequels ended, Lucas and his team kicked around a number of projects, but the one that intrigued fans most was a proposed live-action television series. It was going to be something we’d never seen from the Star Wars universe before; gritty, seedy, raw, the series was to take place in the shadowy underworld of Coruscant in the early Empire days. No good Jedi and powerful Sith, just crime lords and those living on the fringes of society.

This stalled, however, and then, when Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012, they officially killed Underworld. The plug was pulled for a number of reasons, not the least of which was because the raw, dark tone of the series clashed with Disney’s family-friendly brand. But the saga is now set to come to the small screen in live-action again; along with the announcement that a brand-new Star Wars movie trilogy is in development from The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, it’s been announced Lucasfilm is also developing the first live-action Star Wars series, set to air on Disney’s proprietary streaming platform that will launch in the second half of 2019. Could this as-yet-untitled Star Wars TV project be the long-awaited Underworld series? It’s not as far-fetched as one might think.

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