Well here's something you wouldn't expect. While discussing the new God of War, director Cory Barlog has revealed a little detail about the cancelled Star Wars live-action TV show

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Barlog worked briefly on the canned Star Wars: 1313, a game set in the same time period as the long-mooted TV series, which was tentatively titled Star Wars: Underworld , and set between Episodes III and IV."When I was working at Lucas," explains Barlog to VentureBeat , "I was allowed to go up to the ranch and read the scripts for the [canceled live-action Star Wars] TV show. It was the most mind-blowing thing I’d ever experienced."That seems to be down to a single character choice, and how the writers had approached it:"I cared about the Emperor. They made the Emperor a sympathetic figure who was wronged by this f**king heartless woman. She’s this hardcore gangster, and she just totally destroyed him as a person. I almost cried while reading this. This is the Emperor, the lightning out of the fingers Emperor. That’s something magical. The writers who worked on that, guys from The Shield and 24, these were excellent writers"Back in 2012, the prequels' Palpatine, Ian McDiarmid had discussed reprising the role for the show , but this sounds like a far younger version of the character, possibly told in flashback.Besides a very brief mention from Kathleen Kennedy last year, news on the show has gone very quiet, and with the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story now set in the same time period, it looks unlikely that Underworld - which reportedly had 50 scripts already written - will make a return in the same form.And yet it's still having an effect. Barlog describes reading the act of making the Emperor a sympathetic character as the "germinations" for Santa Monica Studio to transform Kratos from rage-spewing death machine to bearded, struggling dad in the new God of War

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