Movie New Star Wars Movie Series by Game Of Thrones Creators

[Exe Gesis]

http://www.starwars.com/news/game-o...e-and-produce-a-new-series-of-star-wars-films

GAME OF THRONESCREATORS DAVID BENIOFF AND D.B. WEISS TO WRITE AND PRODUCE A NEW SERIES OF STAR WARS FILMS

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.

It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit, Emmy Award-winning television series Game of Thrones, will write and produce a new series of Star Wars films.

These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson, writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

“David and Dan are some of the best storytellers working today,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and richness of mythology will break new ground and boldly push Star Wars in ways I find incredibly exciting.”

“In the summer of 1977 we traveled to a galaxy far, far away, and we’ve been dreaming of it ever since,” Benioff and Weiss said in a joint statement. “We are honored by the opportunity, a little terrified by the responsibility, and so excited to get started as soon as the final season of Game of Thrones is complete.”

No release dates have been set for thenew films, and there have (thankfully) been no sightings of White Walkers around Lucasfilm.

 

[Strange Cat]

Luckily they weren’t in charge of the OT, full blow Luke and Leia sex scene incoming

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

First Star Wars sex scene confirmed

 

[Bluelegs]

Hopefully they have some decent writers to back them up. GoT has stumbled a lot since they overtook Martin

 

[SM]

Hopefully this is finally news we'll get something set in the Old Republic, could be fantastic.

I don't think the writing concerns about GoT are justified as they went from being severely restricted by Martin to having to come up with the next legs on their own but still getting to his conclusion, which even he hasn't been able to figure out how to do.

 

[Exe Gesis]

These guys would definitely suit an Old Republic era series.

 

[BEaston]

Hopefully they have some decent writers to back them up. GoT has stumbled a lot since they overtook Martin

This.

Once GoT diverged or passed the book material it fell in a bit of a heap.

 

[Richard Pryor]

These guys seem to be big fans of being provocative for the sake of it which could be interesting or just annoying. Presumably Disney will keep them on a tight leash though.

 

[Exe Gesis]

They'll probably also get fired for "creative differences" during the shooting and someone else will have to come in and reshoot over half of it. You know it.

 

[GreyCrow]

Light Sabers will take on a whole new meaning

Oh and dont google lightsaber pr0n

 

[GreyCrow]

They'll probably also get fired for "creative differences" during the shooting and someone else will have to come in and reshoot over half of it. You know it.

And countless pages on BF will be devoted to whinging how we wish they kept it ''like the originals''

 

[quotemokc]

I will go against the grain here and say please no Old Republic.

Old Republic has so much history and richness that even a trilogy wouldn't do it justice.

It would have to be a tv show. Imagine if Game of Thrones had been a movie and how much content we would have missed out on.

 

[Strange Cat]

I would much rather an origin story than the old republic

You could do a lot with the beginnings of the force users to the separation to the two extremes groups of Jedi and Sith disciples.

 

[JackOutback]

More Star Wars is good, too much Star Wars potentially bad. I'm a bit worried about having two trilogies running side by side. I thought RJ's trilogy would take the place of the Saga, with Anthology movies in between. The worry here is they take the Marvel approach of several movies a year, with trilogy movies every year and a secondary Anthology movie. Will certainly make them less special.

 

[Strange Cat]

More Star Wars is good, too much Star Wars potentially bad. I'm a bit worried about having two trilogies running side by side. I thought RJ's trilogy would take the place of the Saga, with Anthology movies in between. The worry here is they take the Marvel approach of several movies a year, with trilogy movies every year and a secondary Anthology movie. Will certainly make them less special.

Meh they have already killed it

 

[Chris_6678]

With two more shows in pipeline too... That is a lot of Starwars.

 

[SM]

I will go against the grain here and say please no Old Republic.

Old Republic has so much history and richness that even a trilogy wouldn't do it justice.

It would have to be a tv show. Imagine if Game of Thrones had been a movie and how much content we would have missed out on.

Why miss out? By having a movie trilogy in the OR, you suddenly have a core group of characters that can act as a spring board for TV shows, books, comics, etc. As it stands, no one is going to do anything in that era for fear of contradicting what they want to do with movies. We need movies to be the pioneer in the era.

 

[SM]

More Star Wars is good, too much Star Wars potentially bad. I'm a bit worried about having two trilogies running side by side. I thought RJ's trilogy would take the place of the Saga, with Anthology movies in between. The worry here is they take the Marvel approach of several movies a year, with trilogy movies every year and a secondary Anthology movie. Will certainly make them less special.

Just quietly, I'm fairly sure RJ's trilogy is going to get scrapped.

 

[Tuco]

I'd be worried if I was Rian.

Better produce one hell of a treatment or his trilogy could be stillborn.

 

[SM]

I'd be worried if I was Rian.

Better produce one hell of a treatment or his trilogy could be stillborn.

He's openly admitted to having done absolutely nothing for it yet.

 

[Tuco]

He's openly admitted to having done absolutely nothing for it yet.

I thought I posted today that this clearly looks like a hedge by Disney. They're getting two competing groups together to tender for the $900m budget. Looks like I never actuslly posted that.

I won't be surprised if one trilogy never gets out of development.

RJ has no track record of creating a serialised story. I'd argue he has massively failed to even create a functional sequel.

In Rian's own words he's pitched a "potential" trilogy where they'll "make the first film and see what happens from there".

Really?

So he'll make it up as he goes along and everything will work itself out?

This fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach seems completely insufficient to justify a billion plus investment by Disney.

They'd be betting a decade of brand damage on his skills.

At least the GoT guys can say they know how to weave a long-form reveal over multiple years.

 

[Summer Nights]

Jungle drums are a’beatin for Rian.

 

[Lethality]

It's a bit much to have two trilogies coming up.

 

[glenferry23]

When I first heard about this, I mistakenly thought these guys were signed on to write the films for RJ’s trilogies (thinking that he would then direct them). But no, it’s actually an entirely different set of films.

Seems excessive on face value. No idea of the release dates (same with the other trilogy) but the prospect of an extended period of time with a new SW film every year doesn’t exactly excite me right now.

 

[JackOutback]

If RJ's trilogy is scrapped, I'm betting it's because he decided he didn't want to deal with the same crazy Star Wars fans than because Disney opted out.