New Details REVEALED For Scrapped Star Wars Series!
The Kristian Harloff Show
Kristian Harloff
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
🔥 New Details REVEALED For Scrapped Star Wars Series! 🔥 John Rocha is in the host chair for today’s episode of The Kristian Harloff Show, and we’ve got a packed lineup of stories you don’t want to miss!
Topics for today:
👉 McCallum Reflects On “Star Wars Underworld”
👉 ‘Harry Potter’: Janet McTeer In Negotiations To Play McGonagall; Paapa Essiedu Near Deal To Play Snape In HBO Series
👉 Amazon Memo Promises James Bond Will Remain Male & British
👉 “Avengers” Co-Writer Talks Not Returning
👉 Box Office: “Mickey 17” Pulls In $43.6M Global Debut
We’re diving deep into Rick McCallum’s latest comments about Star Wars: Underworld. Before Disney took over Lucasfilm, George Lucas had BIG plans for a gritty live-action series set between the prequels and the original trilogy. McCallum just revealed that they had over 60 scripts ready to go, and each episode would’ve cost a whopping $40 million to make! That’s a $2.4 billion budget for the whole thing! These episodes were described as dark, sexy, and violent—so much so that McCallum joked Disney never would’ve bought Lucasfilm if they’d seen it. Add in the fact that John Williams was planned to score every episode… this could’ve blown up the entire Star Wars universe! But tech limitations at the time shut it all down. Imagine if they had StageCraft tech back then! The Mandalorian cost $15 million per episode when it launched in late 2019, and Andor reportedly cost even more—but nothing comes close to Underworld.
We’re also breaking down the latest Harry Potter casting updates! Janet McTeer is reportedly in talks to bring Professor McGonagall to life, and Paapa Essiedu may be stepping into Snape’s iconic robes for HBO’s new series. What do you think of these choices?
On the James Bond front, Amazon’s making waves. According to an internal memo, they’re promising Bond will stay male and British. This came straight from the top—Jeff Bezos is apparently a massive 007 fan and wants to honor the legacy. While we won’t hear casting news for a while, it looks like Barbara Broccoli made sure of these conditions before selling to Amazon for a cool $1 billion. Could Idris Elba still be in the mix? We discuss!
Plus, Mickey 17 is making headlines again. Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi epic starring Robert Pattinson just pulled in $43.6 million globally, holding strong at the South Korean box office for a second week. IMAX screenings and great word of mouth are keeping the momentum going.
And finally, we’ve got some insight from Avengers co-writer Christopher Markus about why he won’t be returning for the next two Avengers films. Turns out, Markus is focusing on his own projects, with a whiteboard full of ideas he wants to bring to life. As he puts it, you don’t Avenge part-time! His partner Stephen McFeely is flying solo on these, and Markus says it’s time for him to grow new creative roots.
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| 1:04.0 | It's the outlaw, John Roker, doing the chill intro that Christian Harlov does. What's up, guys? |
| 1:10.2 | How's it going? Welcome to the Christian Harloff show. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm John Roker. Tonight, today we're going to be, I'm flying solo, riding solo with you all |
| 1:17.6 | hanging out with me. I've just been told that I'm handling everything today. So bear with me. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm going to be putting up all the articles, pulling up all the ads and talking Star Wars, |
| 1:29.6 | Marvel, James Bond, Harry Potter, and anything else you all with your minds want to talk about, |
| 1:36.7 | I'm all for it here on the Christian Harlov show. So let's not waste any time. Let's get this thing |
| 1:42.0 | going. I'll be right back right after we play this little |
| 1:46.1 | opening here for the Christian Harlov show as soon as I find it because I wasn't told I was doing |
| 1:52.0 | this myself. So let me see if I can find the video and then we can start from there. And I think |
| 1:58.4 | this might be it. |
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