By Lucasfilm has notably announced several “Star Wars” projects over the years that basically look like they won’t get made.
“Rangers of the Republic” is dead, Taika Waititi has joked about never completing his script for a “Star Wars” film, and “Rogue Squadron” seemed dead until recently with Patty Jenkins coming back around to it.
Then there’s the two trilogies that were teased but never officially announced – one from “The Last Jedi” filmmaker Rian Johnson, the other from former “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
Whilst Johnson has teased he still wants to make his some day, the proposed trilogy from the ‘Thrones’ pair has been dead in the water for some time and they’ve moved onto their recently launched “3 Body Problem” series at Netflix.
Out promoting that on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the pair talked about their “Star Wars” exit and Weiss says:
“We got relatively far story-wise with the first one and like it had kind of a basic road map for the other two, and yeah, it was a shame.
The truth is, Hollywood’s ratio or batting average on things conceived to things that actually finish has never been tremendously high, and there’s always gonna be ones that get away for various reasons; the ones that just aren’t meant to be.
So it was sad that that was one of them for us. As time goes on, you just kind of need to let go of those things because if you don’t, you’ll drive yourself completely crazy.”
The pair’s trilogy was set millennia earlier in the Old Republic, well before the current canon, and dealt with the creation of the Jedi and its early days.
Filmmaker James Mangold’s “Dawn of the Jedi” film is expected to tackle the same subject matter, and the site asked if that was awkward for them to which Benioff responded: “I love Jim, he’s a great dude, so all the best of luck to him.”
The full conversation is up at Happy Sad Confused.
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