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.”