Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss infamously had a planned Star Wars trilogy in the works.
trilogy in the works. Recently, the pair revealed just how close the films were to getting started before they got scrapped.), the pair revealed that they had created a roadmap for most of the trilogy, and were “relatively far” as far as the story for the first goes.
“I think we got relatively far, storywise, with the first one,” Weiss said. “We had a basic roadmap to the other two, and it was a shame. The truth is our Hollywood ratio, or batting average, of things conceived to things actually finished, has never been tremendously high, and there’s always going to be ones that get away for various reasons. The ones that were never meant to be. And it was sad that was one of them for us.
According to the pair, the premise was set years before the prequel trilogy featuring the origins of the Jedi Order and the creation of the first lightsaber. Ultimately,‘s decision to reject the story led to Benioff and Weiss exiting the franchise in favor of a multi-year deal to produce original projects for
“ ended up not wanting to do a First Jedi story. We had a very specific story idea in mind, and ultimately they decided they didn’t want to do that,” Benioff. “And we totally get it. It’s their company and their IP, but we weren’t the droids they were looking for.”Anthony Nash has been writing about games and the gaming industry for nearly a decade. When he’s not writing about games, he’s usually playing them. You can find him on Twitter talking about games or sports at @_anthonynash.
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