It has emerged that a couple of Doctor Who writers were working on George Lucas’s planned live-action Star Wars television series.

Lucas put together a team of writers to develop scripts for the TV show in around 2007, following his experience running writers’ rooms for animated series The Clone Wars.

When he went on to sell Lucasfilm, the project was abandoned.

Den of Geek has now revealed that writers Matthew Graham, who wrote Doctor Who episodes ‘Fear Her’, ‘The Almost People’ and ‘The Rebel Flesh’, and Chris Chibnall, who was announced as the new Doctor Who showrunner earlier this year, were part of the writers’ room.

Graham told Den of Geek: “Chris [Chibnall] and I then flew to Skywalker Ranch every two or three months or so, for two weeks at a time, for two years. We had Australian writers, a couple of American writers. Sometimes people came and went. A couple of the American guys didn’t work out so well, so they left … We’d be with George from nine until five in the afternoon, and we’d break Star Wars stories.”

Apparently the team produced approximately 50 scripts for the series.

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