In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have confirmed media reports from 2019 that they were looking at the early days of the Jedi for their Star Wars movie, and shared some further details.
“We wanted to do The First Jedi,” Benioff says. “Basically, how the Jedi Order came to be, why it came to be, the first lightsaber …”
“And we were annoyed as hell when [Rian Johnson, the duo’s longtime friend and 3 Body Problem producer] called his movie The Last Jedi,” Weiss says dryly. “He completely destroyed the obvious title for what we were working on.”
Asked what went wrong, Benioff says, “[Lucasfilm] ended up not wanting to do a First Jedi story. We had a very specific story idea in mind, and ultimately they decided they didn’t want to do that. And we totally get it. It’s their company and their IP, but we weren’t the droids they were looking for.”
We wonder how different their idea was to that of Dawn of the Jedi announced at Star Wars Celebration last year, and coming from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny director James Mangold.
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