Game of Thrones Writers Reveal Cancelled Star Wars Movie

Star Wars: The First Jedi is the best Star Wars movie you’ve never heard of. That’s because it was never made.

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss lifted the lid on their secret Star Wars film during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (shown below), revealing their plans for an epic trilogy.

"I think we got relatively far, storywise, with the first one," Weiss said. "We like had a basic roadmap to the other two, and it was a shame. The truth is our Hollywood ratio, or batting average of things conceived to things actually finished has never been tremendously high, and there's always going to be ones that get away for various reasons.”

According to Benioff and Weiss, Star Wars: The First Jedi was to be the earliest film in the timeline, charting the inception of the Jedi Order, and even the creation of the first lightsaber.

While it would’ve been an interesting premise, Weiss accepts LucasFilm’s decision not to move ahead with the film. “As time goes on, you just kind of need to let go of those kinds of things, because if you don't you'll drive yourself completely crazy."

Besides, the two have other projects to work on. The latest of which is 3 Body Problem, a thought-provoking sci-fi series in which an alien civilization facing extinction turns to Earth for salvation. You can stream it now on Netflix.