Game of Thrones showrunners reveal the story behind their scrapped Star Wars movie: "We weren't the droids they were looking for"
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Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss have revealed the plot of their scrapped Star Wars movie – and we’re already missing what could have been.
“We wanted to do The First Jedi,” Benioff toldThe Hollywood Reporter. “Basically how the Jedi Order came to be, why it came to be, 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 they didn’t want to do that. And we totally get it. It’s their company and their IP, but we weren’t the droids they were looking for.”
“We were annoyed as hell when [Rian Johnson, the duo’s longtime friend and 3B producer] called his movieThe Last Jedi,” Weiss told The Hollywood Reporter. “He completely destroyed the obvious title for what we were working on.”
Of course, the duo aren’t the only ones with a canceled Star Wars movie.Kevin Feige’s take on the franchise was ultimately scrapped, although Kathleen Kennedy says it was never greenlit in the first place. Patty Jenkins' Star Wars: Rogue Squadron was taken off the official Lucasfilm schedule,with Variety reporting that it was shelved indefinitely.
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Lauren Milici is a Senior Entertainment Writer for GamesRadar+ currently based in the Midwest. She previously reported on breaking news for The Independent’s Indy100 and created TV and film listicles for Ranker. Her work has been published in Fandom, Nerdist, Paste Magazine, Vulture, PopSugar, Fangoria, and more.
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