‘Star Wars’: Inside ‘GOT’ Creators’ Exit and the Pressures Facing Lucasfilm

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#StarWars: Inside #GameOfThrones creators' exit and the pressures facing Lucasfilm (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/ijdEkFUvQ0 pic.twitter.com/2fqypaOO3F
- Variety (@Variety) October 30, 2019
In case you missed it, Benioff and Weiss, great ruiners of the last season of Game of Thrones, have dropped their Star Wars project, citing 'scheduling conflicts' with

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[scriptedending]

Idg hiring directors with a vision, like Lord and Miller, without actually wanting the vision. Just hire someone who will do what you tell them to do and be done with it.

[januarysix]

I think they want the name recognition and prestige but also the control. which won't work.

[mehtastic]

Supposedly they were hired them with an agreed vision, and Lord and Miller went off from that agreed upon movie, when filming. So I agree with them being fired. My issue would more be like, where was Kathleen Kennedy that it took as long as it did? Because filming all the extra scenes, that they essentially had to re-shoot, led to the film being as expensive as it was.

[colonel_green]

It sounded like the producers and directors had different ideas of how they were going to proceed. Which, I would understand from Lord and Miller's perspective, because they had a well-understood way of making movies at that point.

[asnindie]

Lbr Disney and Lucasfilm want yes men who will do what they're told. There's a reason why a no name like Rian Johnson got his own star wars film.

[disasterboss]

i don't understand how kennedy and lucasfilm keep hiring and firing directors that have their own "visions" for SW and yet Rian Johnson was allowed to "subvert" and deviate all over the place with tlj. whatever you think of it, it was an incredibly divisive film and doesn't really imo fit with the company line at least not if that was following abrams' admittedly safe tfa. so what is going on there? were most of these hiring and firings post tlj? solo and ep 9 would have been but even rogue one had these issues right? and that was before tlj.

[meganlynn09]

Actually, the kerfuffle with Solo was before TLJ was released.

[januarysix]

I don't think Rian subverted anything though. He followed a paint by numbers script (ROTJ lite)

[disasterboss]

well i think he and his fans think that that's the case--at least that was a defense i heard of tlj. even if, though, he followed some of the same beats as rotj, i think killing luke, not following the threads left by tfa--literally ending entire plot points, keeping the new "trio" apart...i think someone interested in towing the company line would have made an actual sequel to tfa, and not have had the freedom to make as many major character/story changes.

[war_machine_rox]

B&W were interested in exploring how the Jedi came to exist

I would never trust them with this lol

Kennedy and her team were only looking for people to stick to the company line

Which is why the new sequels just feels like the OT but with new faces.

Shame since Star Wars is so vast that they could have done more. And I say this as someone who finds it weird people complain about the movies being only about Skywalkers lol but I also think they should have skipped ahead 100 years story wise forward or backwards.

[meganlynn09]

B&W were interested in exploring how the Jedi came to exist, which does sound far more interesting than the SW movies of the present.

I...would like to see this tbh I mean, I'm glad they're gone, but maybe bring some women in, Kathleen, and explore this.

Also, among the directors won and lost, there were apparent issues with Gareth Edwards on Rogue One as well.