Game Of Thrones Creators Talk About Failed Star Wars Trilogy: “It’s A Shame”

It’s been five years now since Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff first announced they were in the development of a new Star Wars trilogy. The first film was set to premiere back in 2022, so obviously that never manifested, citing creative differences and having to split too much of their time among their projects. Their planned Star Wars trilogy was soon dropped from production and Disney’s release schedule.

Talking with Josh Horowitz on Happy Sad Confused, while promoting their adaptation of the 3 Body Problem for Netflix, the duo talked about how much they had written out for their Star Wars story before it was killed off.

“We got relatively far story-wise with the first one and like it had kind of a basic road map for the other two,” confirmed Weiss. “And yeah, it was a shame. As time goes on you just kind of need to let go of those things because if you don’t you’ll drive yourself completely crazy.”

The team also discussed if there’s any awkwardness between them and director James Mangold who is doing something very similar to their original premise with his Dawn of the Jedi movie. Weiss and Benioff had titled their project The First Jedi and were annoyed by Rian Johnson’s film becoming The Last Jedi. The story would focus on how the Jedi Order came into existence and also go into detail about the first lightsaber.

“And we were annoyed as hell when Rian Johnson called his movie The Last Jedi,” Weiss said back in January. “He completely destroyed the obvious title for what we were working on.”

The Dawn of the Jedi was originally a story from the comics that took place over 36,000 years before A New Hope about the first order of Jedi, or Je’daii as they were called.

“I love Jim,” added Weiss. “He’s a great dude. So, all the best of luck to him.”