{"id":48724,"date":"2024-03-29T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2017759"},"modified":"2024-03-29T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T14:05:41","slug":"game-of-thrones-showrunners-on-axed-star-wars-trilogy-it-was-a-shame","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/game-of-thrones-showrunners-on-axed-star-wars-trilogy-it-was-a-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones showrunners on axed Star Wars trilogy: \u201cIt was a shame\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Benioff and DB Weiss’s film was originally planned to be titled The First Jedi. <\/p>

By Morgan Jeffery\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 29 March 2024 at 10:43 AM<\/p>

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David Benioff and DB Weiss, best known as showrunners on Game of Thrones and new Netflix series 3 Body Problem<\/a>, have spoken out about their scrapped Star Wars trilogy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weiss told the Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a> that he and Benioff \u201cgot relatively far, storywise\u201d with the first of their planned movies before Lucasfilm opted to drop the project.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe [also] had a basic roadmap to the other two,\u201d said Weiss. \u201cIt was a shame.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is our Hollywood ratio, or batting average of things conceived to things actually finished has never been tremendously high, and there\u2019s always going to be ones that get away for various reasons. You know, the ones that were never meant to be \u2013 and it was sad that was one of them for us. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut as time goes on, you just kind of need to let go of those kinds of things, because if you don\u2019t you\u2019ll drive yourself completely crazy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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David Benioff and DB Weiss.<\/span><\/figcaption> Taylor Hill\/Getty Images<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Benioff and Weiss\u2019s film was originally planned to be titled The First Jedi, with Benioff having previously told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> that the resulting trilogy would explore \u201chow the Jedi Order came to be, why it came to be, the [origins of the] first lightsaber\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Lucasfilm] 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\u2019t want to do that. And we totally get it. It\u2019s their company and their IP, but we weren\u2019t the droids they were looking for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Though their project did not go ahead, another film set early in the Star Wars timeline called Dawn of the Jedi is in development with\u00a0Logan director James Mangold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mangold has described his film in an interview with Gizmodo<\/a> as an \u201corigin story of how the Force came to be known, understood, wielded, and harnessed.\u201d<\/p>\n