David Benioff and Dan Weiss, creators of the Game of Thrones HBO present, have defined extra about their scrapped Star Wars movie, saying “we weren’t the droids [Lucasfilm] have been on the lookout for”.
Chatting with The Hollywood Reporter, the pair additionally confirmed stories from 2019 that their movie would primarily be “The First Jedi”, telling the story of how the Jedi Order, first lightsabers, and so on got here to be.
Lucasfilm employed Benioff and Weiss to direct a sequence of movies in 2018, with the first premiering in 2022, although this was scrapped in 2019 on account of scheduling conflicts, the pair mentioned at the time. The cut up appeared amicable, as Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy additionally mentioned she hopes Benioff and Weiss would return to Star Wars in the future.
The official story seems to have modified, nonetheless, as Benioff has now mentioned “[Lucasfilm] ended up not desirous to do a First Jedi story. We had a really particular story concept in thoughts, and in the end they determined they didn’t need to do this.
“We completely get it. It’s their firm and their IP, however we weren’t the droids they have been on the lookout for.”
The scathing feedback did not cease there although as Weiss additionally expressed frustration at Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed Star Wars: Episode 8 – The Final Jedi, for stepping on their toes.
“We needed to do The First Jedi. Principally how the Jedi Order got here to be, why it got here to be, the first lightsaber,” Benioff mentioned.
“And we have been aggravated as hell when [Rian Johnson] known as his film The Final Jedi,” Weiss added. “He fully destroyed the apparent title for what we have been working on.”
Concern over the state of Star Wars movies is not something new, with the Prequel Trilogy dealing with a harsh crucial reception upon its premiere in 1999, however followers are rising more and more involved and confused at the quantity of movies being introduced with none really releasing since 2019’s Star Wars: Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.