Game of Thrones series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have confirmed in a new interview with Inside Total Film podcast that they have no interest in returning to Star Wars.
When asked by the Inside Total Film podcast about if they have an interest in a return, Benioff admitted, “No, I don’t think so.” He continued, “I think when you’ve got a franchise that’s already so well established, like Star Wars or James Bond or so forth, I think there’s less independence when you come in to try to tell a story that you want to tell and so I think what Dan [Weiss] and I have learned is that it’s more fun for us to start something afresh.”
Benioff added, “Obviously, we’re coming in on the shoulders of [author Liu Cixin] here, he’s the one who created these novels and everything but because we’re the ones adapting them, at least for the English language. We have a lot of flexibility in terms of the story we want to tell and that’s a lot more fun for us than the other version.”
What could’ve been…
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