Game of Thrones showrunners on the deleted Star Wars trilogy: ‘It was a shame’

“We [also] had a basic road map for the other two,” Weiss said. ” It was a shame.

“The truth is that our Hollywood ratio, or batting average between things designed and things actually completed, has never been extremely high, and there will always be those who get away with it for various reasons. You know , the ones that were never meant to be – and it was sad that this was one of them for us.

“But over time you just have to let go of that stuff, because if you don’t you’ll go completely crazy.”

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Benioff and Weiss’ film was originally going to be titled The First Jedi, with Benioff previously saying The Hollywood Reporter that the resulting trilogy would explore “how the Jedi Order came to be, why it came to be, the [origins of the] first lightsaber.

“[Lucasfilm] ended up not wanting to do a First Jedi story. We had a very specific story idea in mind, and ultimately they decided not to do it. And we totally understand. This is their business and their intellectual property, but we weren’t the droids they were looking for.”

Although their project didn’t come to fruition, another film set early in the Star Wars timeline, titled Dawn of the Jedi, is in development with Logan director James Mangold.

Mangold described his film in an interview with Gizmodo as “the original story of how the Force was known, understood, used and exploited.”

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