Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and DB Weiss are just the latest film-makers to have stepped away from the franchise in the modern era. Will The Rise of Skywalker be the end of it?
What is so hard about making a half-decent
Star Wars film? Even two-time Razzie nominee George Lucas was able to produce a trilogy of them in the 1970s and 80s. Is there something inherently complex about stories emanating from that galaxy far, far away, such that so many famous names in
Hollywood have metaphorically fallen into the Sarlacc’s pit when attempting to craft fresh episodes of the long-running saga?
The latest pair to fall foul of the Star Wars curse are
Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and DB Weiss, who revealed this week that they are too busy fulfilling their new contract with
Netflix to bother with the deal they made only last year to work on a new trilogy for Lucasfilm owner Disney. “We love Star Wars,” the pair told Deadline. “When George Lucas built it, he built us too. Getting to talk about Star Wars with him and the current Star Wars team was the thrill of a lifetime, and we will always be indebted to the saga that changed everything.”