‘Exclusive: Ronald D. Moore Gives Details on George Lucas’ Scrapped Live-Action ‘Star Wars’ TV Series’:
https://collider.com/star-wars-underworld-live-action-series-details-ronald-d-moore-george-lucas
A snippet from the article:
“I was one of several, there was a bunch of international writers they assembled… we would gather up at Skywalker Ranch once every six to eight weeks, something like that. And we would break stories together, and right after we’d go off and write some drafts and bring ‘em back, and George and we would sit down and critique them, and then do another draft and break more stories… It was great! It was a ball, it was a lot of fun. It didn’t happen ultimately, we wrote I’d say somewhere in the 40-something, 48 scripts, something like that… the theory was George wanted to write all the scripts and get ‘em all done and then he was gonna go off and figure out how to produce them, because he wanted to do a lot of cutting edge technological stuff with CG and virtual sets and so on. And so he had a whole new thing he wanted to accomplish. And what happened was, you know, we wrote the scripts and then George said ‘OK, this is enough for now, and then I’ll get back to you. I want to look into all the production things.’ And then time went by and like a year or something after that is when he sold Lucasfilm to Disney.”
That sounds very cool, though pours cold water on the claim George was fed up with the fans attitude towards him and the Prequels, or bored of the franchise, just before sellling it to Disney in 2012.
Going on the article and the fact there was so many writer contributing to a project that had stories outlined / scripts for around 40 episodes, and George was spending time trying to figure out the technical side of things.