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

[sandstorm]

#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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[ellaellaeheheh]

they better keep the Rian Johnson one. I want it.

[zeysech]

Me too, I liked TLJ but I feel like a lot of the themes/ideas would be stronger if it felt like TFA was hinting at any of it at all. So I think a full trilogy will be a lot more interesting and cohesive.

[just444]

The news of David Benioff and Dan Weiss' sudden departure from the #StarWars franchise, predictably, sparked a tizzy among many fans. Go inside what happened: https://t.co/dznusMXBvp
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 30, 2019

While Benioff and Weiss were in high demand after wrapping the megahit Thrones - controversial final season notwithstanding - nine-figure deals such as theirs have traditionally been reserved for prolific producers who can manage multiple projects at once. (Netflix, for example, paid Ryan Murphy $300 million over five years and he's working on 10 projects less than two years after signing the deal.) Benioff and Weiss, for their part, have never tackled anything other than Game of Thrones and have effectively only made 73 episodes of television over the past decade.

[skekzok]

I swear I heard a director who was in line to direct a big Disney/Marvel/SW film who said the experience was a nightmare, almost traumatic? He said it was a literal room full of execs in suits at a table who wanted him for brownie points (like he'd done a hit indie) and told him in no uncertain terms that was the reason and he wasn't to deviate from anything the studio ordered. I cannot for the life of me remember who, and he didn't SAY Disney of course but you KNOW he meant them. Google isn't helping me. The way he spoke about it, he sounded devastated at how cold they were.

[sandstorm]

I think I vaguely remember something like that with Ava Duvernay re: Black Panther. She still made WIT for them so idk.

[zeysech]

I remember Lucrecia Martel spoke about how they wanted her to do Black Widow but they weren't gonna let her do anything with the action scenes.

[bodyline]

Edgar Wright?

[elderpricely]

lol IA but not from them!

[inkstainedlips]

A movie/series about the early Jedi would be awesome but not from them.

[kiarrith]

yes to all of this <3
im very happy they are no longer involved!

[laurondo]

I definitely want to see movie(s) about that.