Guess We'll Never Know What A Star Wars From the GoT Creators Would Look Like

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are officially bowing out of their burgeoning Star Wars film project.


Shockingly, the duo are abandoning the project following a $200 million deal they signed in August with Netflix. According to Benioff and Weiss, they just don't have the time devote to the franchise that it deserves.


"We love Star Wars," the pair mentioned in a statement issued by Lucasfilm. As soon as George Lucas built it, he built us also. Getting to talk about Star Wars with him and the current Star Wars team was the thrill of a lifetime, and we'll will constantly be indebted to the saga that changed everything. Although there really are only so several hours in the day, and felt we might not do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix assignments. So we are regretfully stepping away."


News first broke that the duo could be handling the Star Wars universe back in May 2019, where Disney's Bob Iger made the announcement while in the MoffetNathanson Media & Communications summit. The initial Star Wars film post-The Rise of Skywalker was supposed to have been from Benioff and Weiss.


"We’re hard at work already, nevertheless we felt three years was the genuine quantity of time to not only take a breather and reset, however to gear up for the next film’s release," mentioned Iger. "We did a deal with David Benioff and D.B Weiss, who are prominent for Game of Thrones, and the next movie that we release will be theirs." He added that they [Disney] wasn't "saying anything more about that."


Nevertheless, this exit doesn't mean they'll never have a place in the Star Wars universe, at least according to Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.


"David Benioff and Dan Weiss are incredible storytellers," mentioned Kennedy. "We wish to include them in the journey forward any time while they are able to step away from their busy schedule give attention to Star Wars," she mentioned in a statement.


now, obviously, that doesn't seem very likely. Looks like we'll have to take a "wait and visualize approach if we ever wish to be able to see how the "kings" of Westeros would have handled a galaxy far, far away.