The Reason Game Of Thrones Creators Are No Longer Making Star Wars Movies

If you’re a Star Wars fan, prepare for some pretty upsetting news. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. There's obviously quite a
lot of crossover between Game of Thrones and Star Wars.
Fans both featured incredible characters and stories and is that
a fantastical and fully realized universe. So when the news
came down last year that Thrones creator David Benning Off
and dB wise we're creating their own Star Wars trilogy,
fan people went nuts. Unfortunately, it's just been announced these

(00:21):
films will never see the light of day because the
record setting deal the pair recently assigned with Netflix will
keep them too busy. In a statement to Deadline, they say,
when George Lucas built Star Wars, he built us too.
Getting to talk about Star Wars with him was the
thrill of a lifetime, and we will always be indebted
to the saga that changed everything. There only so many
hours in the day, and we felt we could not
do justice to both Star Wars and our Netflix projects,

(00:44):
so we regretfully are stepping away. Thankfully, Star Wars fans
will have other contents to look forward to. The new series,
The Mandalorian, will debut on Disney Plus November twelve. That's
direct from Hollywood,