THRONES CREATORS LEAVE
STAR WARS
Posted: 010320

Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have walked away from their deal with Lucasfilm to launch a Star Wars feature film trilogy in 2022. The duo claim that their new major deal with Netflix would interfere in the new trilogy which would be in theaters in 2022. But there is much more to the story than that. One of the main reasons the pair walked away was fan reaction to the last season of Game of Thrones. According to Heat Vision their exit has been brewing since August when Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy expressed anger with the duo signing a Netflix deal. She didn’t think they could work on Star Wars and doing projects at Netflix since all the two have done is run Thrones. Benioff and Weiss were working on a treatment for the films with the plan of writing at least one of the films even though they had signed on to write all three. Their plan was to explore a period in which the Jedi came to exist. The two were also feeling the heat of what has been called “toxic fandom” after GOT ended and didn’t want to deal with that again. The fact that creators brought into the Star Wars fold had to fit into company line as far as they were concerned placed them in a box that they didn’t want to be in.

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